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

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22 authorized to construct a main canal and appurtenant structures, located entirely within the United States, connecting the Laguna Dam, or other suitable diversion dam which the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California; In Section 4 (a), 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 and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this act, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado