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Show Canyon Project Act and an act of the Legislature of California, approved March 4, 1929, entitled, "An Act to limit the use by California of the waters of the Colorado River, etc." At pages 21, 22 and 23 of Bill. "XVI "Boulder Canyon Project Act "***** Said Act Provides: ***** "In Section 4 (a), that it shall not take effect and that no authority shall be exercised thereunder unless and until ***** '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 River for use in the State of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of this act in all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist, shall not exceed 4,400,000 acre feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said compact;' " |
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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] : |