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Show 2 1 perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such 2 works or structures unless and until (1) the States of Ari- 3 zona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 4 Wyoming shall have ratified the Colorado River Compact, 5 mentioned in section 12 hereof, and the President by public 6 proclamation shall have so declared, or (2) if said States 7 fail to ratify the said compact within one year from the 8 date of the passage of this Act, then, until six of said States, 9 including the State of California, shall ratify said compact 10 and shall consent to waive the provisions of the first para- 11 graph of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same 12 binding and obligatory only when approved by each of the 13 seven states signatory thereto, and shall have approved said 14 compact without conditions, save that of such six State ap- 15 proval, and the President by public proclamation shall have 16 so declared, and, further, until the State of California, by 17 Act of its legislature, shall agree with the United States and 18 for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, 19 New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant 20 and in consideration of the passage of this Act, that the 21 aggregate annual diversions of water of and from the Colo- 22 rado River for use in the State of California, including all 23 diversions under contracts made under the provisions of this 24 Act and all water necessary for the supply of any rights 25 which may now exist, shall not exceed four million six |
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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. |