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

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE compact being the one signed at Santa Fe, N. Mex., on November 24, 1922, and having been consented to by the Congress of the United States by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928." Or the proviso might be worded in the following or similar language: "This appropriation shall not become effective unless and until the State of Arizona by act of its legislature approved by its governor, shall have agreed irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of each and all of the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming as an express covenant with the right of the United States, or any of said States, to sue or defend thereon and in consideration of said item of appropriation, that said States and each thereof shall have the same rights, uses, and interests in and in respect to the waters of the Colorado River system that said States and each thereof would have had if the State of Arizona had ratified the Colorado River compact when the other States ratified it, and if said State thereby likewise had become a party thereto; said compact being the one signed at Santa Pe, N. Mex., November 24, 1922, and consented to by the Congress of the United States by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928." The idea of an act of self-limitation mentioned in section 2 (b) hereof is taken from the California law found in the Acts of California, 1929, at page 38, chapter 16. That is the act by which California limited herself as to the total amount of water she would take from the Colorado River, and does so, for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The title of the California act is as follows: "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." Respectfully submitted. Byron G. Rogers, Attorney General for Colorado. A. T. Hannett, Special Assistant Attorney General for New Mexico. William W. Ray, Special Counsel for Utah. Ray E. Lee, Attorney General for Wyoming.