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Show regulations of fishing on -water courses forming part of the frontier which contained the following provision * "Water may not be diverted from the water- courses referred to in Article I, nor may any constructions "be erected therein or any steps be taken such as to cause damage, by altering the present depth or condition of the parts of the watercourse situated in the territory of the ' other Contracting State, to the extent of water in its territory, or to its fish, land or other property, or thereby to damage the fairway or to encroach upon channels used for navigation or timber-floating, unless a special agreement has been concluded in each case between the Contract- ing States„" 19 League of Nations, Treaty Series, pp. 193-195* Article 2 of the convention relating to the development of hydraulic power affecting more than one state, signed at Geneva on December 9* 1923* provides: "Should reasonable development of hydraulic power involve international investigation, the Contracting States concerned shall agree to such investigation, which shall be carried out con- jointly at the request of any one of them, with a view to arriving at the solution most favorable to their interests as a whole, and to drawing up, if possible, a scheme of development, with due re-f gard for any works already existing, under con- struction, or projected". Article 1| of the same convention further provides j "If a Contracting State desires -fco carry out operations for the development of hydraulic power which might cause serious prejudice to any other Contracting State, the States concerned shall e"nter into "negotiations with a view to the conclusion of agreements which will allow"such 6perations to" be executed." 36 League of Nations, Treaty Series, PP. 77, .81/ . . By article X of the Agreement relating to the construction of a Storage Dam at Krishnarajasagara on the Cauvery River, signed by Madras and Mysore» states in India, on February 18, 1921;* the Madras Government consented to the construction of the Dam, of a certain cubic content, with the proviso that an agreed amount of water should be discharged at certain times. Both Statues reserved liberty to extend their irrigation areas within fixed limits, pro- vided that "Mysore shall only construct reservoirs for that purpose of an agreed size, and that the waters impounded therein not make any material di- minution in supplies." At the end of 50 years these conditions may be re- considered in the light of experience. The limits of irrigation referred "to -33- .. |