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Show BEAR RIVER COMPACT 31 ARTICLE XVI This Compact shall be in effect when it shall have been ratified by the Legislature of each signatory State and consented to by the Con- gress of the United States of America. Notice of ratification by the legislatures of the signatory States shall be given by the Governor of each signatory State to the Governor of each of the other signatory States and to the President of the United States of America, and the President is hereby requested to give notice to the Governor of each of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States of America. In Witness Whereof, The Commissioners and their advisers have executed this compact in five originals, one of which shall be deposited with the General Services Administration of the United States of America, one of which shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States, and one of which shall be made a part of the permanent records of the Bear River Commission. Done at Salt Lake City, Utah, this 4th day of February 1955. For the State of Idaho: For the State of Wyoming: Fred M. Cooper L. C. Bishop Melvin Lauridsen H. T. Person Mark R. Kulp Howard B. Black For the State of Utah: Emil C. Gradert George D. Clyde S. Reed Dayton J. Lorenzo Weidmann A. V. Smoot Lawrence B. Johnson Alonzo F. Hopkin E. M. Van Orden Orson A. Christensen Approved: E. O. Larson Representative of the United States of America Attest: E. J. Skeen Secretary of the Bear Compact Commission NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Act of July 24,1946 (60 Stat. 658), the Congress gave its consent to the negotiation by the States of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming of a compact "providing for an equitable division and apportionment among the said States of the waters of the Bear River and all of its tributaries in the three States * * *." This consent was given "upon condition that one suitable person from the Department of the Interior, who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, shall participate in said negoti- ations as the representative of the United States iand shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact entered1 into." The Act cited also provided that no such compact should be effective until it had been ratified by the legislature of each of the States and "ap- proved" by the Congress. State ratifications.-Idaho, Act of March 15, 1955 (Sess. L. 1955, p. 450; Idaho Code (1947) sec. 42-3402). |