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Show All other rights to beneficial use of v/aters of the Colorado River System shall be satisfied solely from the water apportioned to that basin in which they are situate. Article IX. Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit or prevent any State from instituting or maintaining: any action or proceeding, legal or equitable, for the protection of any right under this compact or the enforcement of any of its provisions* Article X. This compact may be terminated at any time by the unanimous agreement of the signatory States. In the event of such termination all rights established under it shall continue unimpaired* Article XI. This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Con- gress of the United States. Notice of approval by the Legislatures shall be given by the Governor of each signatory State to the Governors of the other signatory States and to the President of the United States, arid the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States. In witness whereof the Commissioners have signed this compact in a single original, -which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States. Done at the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this twenty-fourth day of November, ,A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. (Signed) ' W. S. ITorviel. (Signed) W. F. McClure. (Signed) Delph E. Carpenter. (Signed) J. G. Sorugham0 (Signed) R. E. Caldwell, (Signed) Frank C. Emerson. Approved s (Signed) Herbert Hoover. |