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Show ARTICLE X MTf, after having satisfied the real needs of the uses" respectively recognized by both parties as regular, some water remains available at low water in crossing the frontier, it shall be divided in advance between the two countries in proportion to the extent of irrigable land belonging to the respective immediate riparian owners, deducting the lands already irrigated .1f An international commission of engineers was to be set up to carry out hydrographic studies and to carry out the construction of certain works, as well as general duties of inspection along the streams (Art. XVIII)* The final Act of July 11, 1868, carries the results of. the engineer's' pre- liminary work and contains the specific regime of the boundary streams to be followed, described in minute detail.. All important diversions and diversion structures on the several rivers are described and regulated. Provision is made for obtaining strict .observance of all regulations and the cooperation of authorities on both sides of the boundary* Hertslet, III, 16^7; British and Foreign State Papers, LVI, 212, et seq« British and Foreign State Papers, LIX, h&h et seq. .11. River Roya and Affluents - France and Italy December 17, 19ll+ The Roya and its affluents cross and recross the Franco-Italian frontier and at certain places form the international boundary. A treaty with regard to the utilization of the waters of this river provides that future hydro- power projects in one country must not perceptibly change the regime of the Roya or its tributaries as it passes into the other country (Art. l)« Where a stream forms the boundary line between the countries, each is ac- knowledged to have equal rights to the hydro-power of the stream and each agrees not to use this right so as to prevent the other from a similar use, without previous consent of the other (Art. II). To facilitate the best'us© of the power of the main river, where it forms the boundary, the two countries agree to leave the entire use of the water, to the French bank of the stream, between certain points, and the entire use, to the Italian bank, between'cer- tain other points. • An international commission is to administer the agreement in a limited way* (Art. II). ¦'.'' The following boundary treaties, in addition to those outlined above con- tain a provision at the place indicated, providing for, or clearly implying^ the recognition of consumptive uses of international waters existing at the -27- |