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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1824 Identification: Aug. 9, 1957 Admitted: Aug. 9, 1957 Extract From Hearings Before House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation on H.R. 5773, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. (1928)-(Fourth Swing-Johnson Bill). [p. 177] Mr. [Phil D.] Swing. I shall now read from the book of information presented to this committee during the Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, in connection with H.R. 2903, from the comments [of] Mr. W. S. Norviel, who was a member of the Colorado River Commission. These are parts of his comments on the Colorado River compact. He states them in a letter to Mr. Hayden dated April 18, 1924. At that time I believed Mr. Norviel was State engineer. Quoting, I find [reading] : tt Nor must the 6,000,000 acre-feet of surplus flow on down the river until 1963, as some people have told the committee, but is subject to appropriation in the usual way under the present law, which is not disturbed; first, of course, using up the water allocated by pact." |
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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] : California exhibits. |
