AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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21 time to time and within the appropriations therefor, such amounts as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for carrying out the provisions of said act, but that the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed the sum of $165,000,000. Said act provides in section 3 thereof that there is authorized to be appropriated from time to time such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of said act, not exceeding in the aggregate $165,000,000. XVIII Said act provides in section 4 (a) thereof that it shall not take effect and that no authority shall be exercised thereunder unless and until (1) the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming shall ratify the Colorado River Compact, and the President by public proclamation shall so declare, or (2) if said States shall fail to ratify said compact within six months from the date of the passage of said act, then until six of said States, including the State of California, shall ratify said compact and consent to waive those provisions thereof which require its approval by the legislatures of all the signatory States, and shall approve said compact without conditions, save that of such six-state approval, and the President by public proclamation shall so declare, and, further, until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States, for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, that the aggregate annual consumptive use of water of and from the Colorado River for use in California shall not exceed 4,400,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned to said Lower Basin by the Colorado River Compact, plus not more than one-half