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-14- in the United States. This is a half-hearted attempt by the Arizona Senators to protect the Yuma Project against flood and seepage damage occasioned by the Mexican Diversion Dam. "In addition to the eleven reservations, a provision was added to the resolution of ratification, to the effect that the reservations "will be mentioned in the ratification of this treaty as conveying the true meaning of the treaty, and will in effect form a part of the treaty," which requires that the reservations be communicated to and accepted by Mexico. Also, there was signed on November 14, 1944, a protocol to the treaty, by which the conflict of jurisdiction between the Boundary Commission and other federal agencies was cleared up, the effect being that agencies such as the Bureau of Reclamation will continue to construct and manage their existing and future projects, and the direct jurisdiction of the Commission is limited to works along the borders and those used exclusively for carrying out treaty functions. "In general, the eleven reservations and the protocol have drastically whittled down the powers of the Secretary of State and the American Commissioner. The ambiguities in connection with the water allocation, which might have been held by a court arbitration to allow Mexico as much as 3,000,000 acre-feet or perhaps more, have been cleared up. "It is obvious that all of the eleven reservations are directly the product of the effort made by California in opposition to the treaty. That effort, in the opinion of the Colorado River Board, has been justified, although it would have been justified had the outcome been entirely negative. The purpose of the State Department, to set up on the Colorado River by perpetual treaty beyond the