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Show 16 1 other uses, and all users of water thus delivered and nil 2 users and appropriators of waters stored by said reservoir 3 and/or carried by said canal, including all permittees and 4 licensees of the United States or any of its agencies, shall 5 observe and be subject to and controlled, anything to the 6 contrary herein notwithstanding, by the terms of such com- 7 pact, if any, between the States of Arizona, California, and 8 Nevada, or any two thereof, for the equitable division of the 9 benefits, including power, arising from the use of water accru- 10 ing to said States, subsidiary to and consistent with said Colo- 11 rado Eiver compact, which may be negotiated and approved 12 by said States and to which Congress shall give its consent 13 and approval on or before January 1, 1929; and the terms of 14 any such compact concluded between said States and 15 approved and consented to by Congress after said date: 16 Provided, That in the latter case such compact shall be sub- 17 ject to all contracts, if any, made by the Secretary of the 18 Interior under section 5 hereof prior to the date of such 19 approval and consent by Congress. 20 (d) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to waive any 21 of the rights or powers reserved or granted to the United 22 States by paragraph 7 of section 20 of the Act providing for 23 the admission of Arizona, approved June 20, 1910, and 24 by the tenth paragraph of Article XX of the constitution of 25 Arizona, but the Secretary of the Interior is authorized on |
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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. |