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Show -72- Massachusetts on June 16, 1890 ,^* and by Hew Hampshire on August 16, 1889• ^ A similar agreement, concluded on June 13* 1894* was assented to by Massa- chusetts on May 25, 1895, 266 and by New Hampshire on June 30, 1095* ^ (11) North Dakota Drainage Agreement of 1909* The joint drainage boards of two North Dakota counties entered into a contract on February 24, 1909* with the municipality of Arthur, Manitoba, permitting the drainage boards to make improvements extending fourteen miles across the Canadian border, providing that the expenses of these improve- ments would be borne by the North Dakota drainage boards, who should also be surety to the municipality of Arthur for any taxes or losses which might result as a consequence of such construction, and that the construction of all additional improvements were to be controlled by the municipality of Arthur and the North Dakota joint drainage board* In McHenry County v. Brady (1917) 37 II. D. 59* 163 N. W. 540, it was held that such an agreement was not a violation of the Compact Clause of the Federal Constitution. 264 16 Mass. Spec. Laws, ch. 73, p. 546. 26 N. H. Laws, 1889, ch. 199, p. 1*13 • 26617 Mass. Spec. Lavjs, ch. 106, p. 787» 2^7n. H, Laws, 1895, oh, 12l*, p. 1+80. |