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Show 38 INTERSTATE COMPACTS the Department of State of the United States of America and shall be deemed the authoritative original, and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the States. Done at the City of Cheyenne in the State of Wyoming, this 18th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-three. Commissioners for South Dakota: M. Q. Sharpe G. W. Morsman S. G. Mortimer W. D. Btichholz Commissioners for Wyoming: L. C. Bishop Samuel MoKean L. H. Robinson Mrs. E. E. McKean I have participated in the negotiation of tfris compact and intend to report favorably thereon to the Congress of the United States. Howard R. Stinson Representative of the United States of America NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Act of February 26, 1927 (44 Stat. 1247), the Congress gave its consent to the negotiation by the States of South Dakota and Wyoming of compacts "providing for an equitable division and apportionment * * * of the water supply of the Belle Fourche" and other streams common to the two States. This consent was given "upon condition that a representative of the United States from the Department of the Interior, to be ap- pointed by the President, shall participate in the negotiations and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agreement entered into." It was also provided that no such compact or agreement should become effective until it had been "approved" by the legislatures of the States and by Congress. State ratifications.-South Dakota, Act of March 4, 1943 (Sess. L. 1943, p. 281; S.D. Code 1939, Supp. (1960) sec. 55.5101). Wyoming, Act of March 3,1943 (Sess. L. 1943, p. 153; Wyo. Comp. Stat. 1957, sec. 41-487). Congressional consent to compact.-Act of February 26, 1944 (58 Stat. 94) from which the text of the compact above set out is taken. Section 2 of this Act reads as follows: "(a) In order that the conditions stated in article XIV of the com- pact hereby consented to shall be met and that the compact shall be and continue to be operative, the following provisions are enacted: "(1) Any beneficial uses hereafter made by the United States, or those acting by or under its authority, within a State, of the waters allocated by such compact, shall be within the allocations made by such compact for use in that State and shall be taken into account in determining the extent of use within that State |