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Show 38 co-operation with said defendant Ray Lyman Wilbur in the exercise of the authority vested or attempted to be vested in him by sections 4 and 5 of said act. Said defendant States, by their said commissions and commissioners, have claimed and are claiming an interest in the three pretended contracts made by said defendant Ray Lyman Wilbur, as hereinabove alleged, for that, after repayment to the United States of all money advanced, with interest, the revenues to be derived from said pretended contracts are to be kept in a separate fund and expended within the Colorado River Basin, as provided in said section 5, and said defendant States have claimed and are claiming an interest in said fund. Also, pursuant to and under color of said act, said defendant States have claimed and are claiming that the Colorado River Compact became effective when approved by Congress and by said defendant States, and that the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, are subject to and controlled by said compact, notwithstanding said State has never ratified or approved said compact. Said defendant States have also aided and abetted, are aiding and abetting, and, unless enjoined therefrom, will continue to aid and abet, said defendant Ray Lyman Wilbur in carrying out the provisions of said act. XXXVI If the defendants shall enforce and carry out the provisions of said act and of said pretended contracts, the State of Arizona, its citizens, inhabitants and property owners, will be thereby prevented from appropriating any of the unappropriated water of the Colorado River and its tributaries, aggregating 9,000,000 acre-feet annually, all of which is now subject to appropriation in Arizona, and from using any of said unappropriated |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |