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

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10 At pages 24, 25, 26 and 27 of Bill. "XVII "California's Limitation of Her Use of the Waters of the Colorado River "Pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, quoted in the preceding Paragraph XVI, it was enacted by the Legislature of the State of California, by an act entitled, 'An Act to limit the use by California of the waters of the Colorado River in compliance with the act of congress known as the 'Boulder canyon project act,' approved December 21, 1928, in the event the Colorado river compact is not approved by all of the states signatory thereto,' approved by the Governor of the State of California on March 4, 1929, as follows: 'Section 1. * * * the State of California as of the date of such proclamation agrees 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 the said 'Boulder canyon project 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 said 'Boulder canyon project act,' and all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist, shall not exceed four million four hundred thousand acre-feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin states by paragraph 'a' of Article III of