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Show But on the eve of the War of the Rebellion a singularly backward step was taken by Congress in passing an act ^O inviting Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, by compact, to undertake certain improvements to navigation in the Red River and granting authority for the imposition and collection of tolls "upon all boats or other water craft ascending or descending said river" for a period of thirty years to pay for the improvements so made The Civil War arrested progress and the enterprise was never undertaken by the States. An anomalous precedent was thus avoided During the Civil War three States were admitted into the Union. The people of Kansas put nothing about waterways in their first state constitution except provisions for internal improvements and concurrent jurisdiction on the Missouri River. 111 West Virginia constitutionally asserted its territorial and juris- dictional rights in the Ohio River 112 Nevada came into the Union without any constitutional indication of state policy in the use of its waters other than such as might be implied from its disclaimer, in the usual form, of any interest in the public lands of the United States 113 Nebraska was the last of the States to be admitted into the Union within the period covered by this paper. The State, by its first constitution, assumed con- current jurisdiction on the Missouri River and on all its other common boundary waters as open highways of commerce <ll4 Constitutions, 2996. In. the year 1919, Oregon adopted a constitutional amendment providing for extension of the credit of the State to pay interest on bonds of irrigation and drainage districts within the State. Oregon Laws 1919* P. 848 H.J.R. #32; Oregon Const. Art XI-B. A proposal to wipe out this amendment is now pending. Oregon Laws 1929, p 788, H.J*R* #1» 110 Act of Feb. 21, 186l, 12 Stat. at L. 250; consult Frankfurter & Landis, The Compact Clause of the Constitution-A Study in Interstate Adjustments, (1925) 34 Yale L Rev* 685, 738. 2 Thorpe's Constitutions, 1176 et seq. Kansas was admitted into the Union in the year 186l. Act of Jan. 29, 186l 12 Stat. at L. 126, 2 Thorpe»s Constitutions. 1176. 112Const. of West Virginia of I86I-I863, Art. 1, S 2, 7 Thorpe's Consti- tutions, l4.Oi3-i4.O33? West Virginia was admitted into the Union in the year 1863» Act of Dec. 31, 1862, 12 Stat. at L. 633, 7 Thorpe's Constitutions, 4011-1+012; Proclamation of Apr. 20, I863, 13 Stat. at L« 731, 7 Thorpe's Constitutions, 1+012* 1+ Thorpe's Constitutions, 2397 et seq. Nevada was admitted into the Union in the year 1861+. Act of Mar. 21, 186!+, 13 Stat. at L. 30, 1+ Thorpe's Constitutions, 2397; President's Proclamation of Oct. 31, 1861;. 13 Stat. at L. 7l+9# k Thorpe's Constitutions, 21*00. ^i+ Thorpe*s Constitutions, 231+3 e"k seq» Nebraska was admitted into the Union in the year I867. Proclamation of the President of Mar. 1, I867, li+ S*at* at L. 820, 1+ Thorpe's Constitutions, 23i+7-23l$, |