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

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use in Arizona under the provisions of the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act, and subject further to: (1) The prior fulfillment of all contracts now or hereafter made by the United States for the diversion of Colorado River water at Imperial Dam and for the delivery of such water through the Gila Gravity Main Canal or the Ail-American Canal for the irrigation of lands in the State of Arizona; (2) Executive A, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, a treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico, and Executive H, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, a protocol signed at Washington on November 14, 1944, supplementary to the treaty, hereinafter referred to as the Mexican Water Treaty; (.3) The express understanding and agreement by the City that this contract is subject to the condition that Hoover Dam and Lake Mead shall be used: first, for river regulation, improvement of navigation, and flood control; second, for irrigation and domestic uses and satisfaction of perfected rights in pursuance of Article VIII of the Colorado River Compact approved by Section 13(a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act; and