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Show CANADIAN RIVER COMPACT 45 agreed upon by the Canadian River Compact Commission at Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 6, 1950, in conformity with Public Law 491, Eighty-first Congress * * *." Earlier compact.-An earlier document entitled "Compact Agreed Upon Between the Commissioners Representing the States of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas for Control of the Canadian River Unit in the Interstate Control of the Arkansas River System" was negotiated in 1926. It was ratified March 23,1927, by a concurrent resolution of the Oklahoma Legislature (Sess. L. 1927, p. 290) and, subject to certain modifications hereafter described, by New Mexico (Act of March 10,1927, Laws 1927, p. 50). The text of this compact read as follows: "The States of New Mexico, Texas, Okl ahoma and Arkansas, desir- ing to enter into a compact for the control of the waters flowing from the Canadian River, and subject to the approval of the Legislatures of their respective States and of the Congress of the United States of America, have through the Commissioners acting for their several States, to-wit: "For Arkansas: Dr. A. C. Millar, Hon. II. C. Couch, Hon. Harry E. Cook, Hon. Burk Mann and Hon. J. S. Parks; by Judge A. M. Dobbs. "For New Mexico: Mr. R. J. Freeland, Mr. James L. Briscoe, and Mr. H. B. Jones. "For Oklahoma: Mr. E. E. Blake, Mr. T. C. Harrill and Mr. George Kenneck. "For Texas: Mr. A. S. Stinnett, agreed to the following articles of compact: "article i "(a) The major purpose of this compact is to provide for the con- trol of the flood waters of the Canadian River, otherwise known as the South Canadian River, and the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the water of said river system impounded hereunder, so far as may be, and the equitable apportionment of the cost of control of said river, according to the benefits received from the control of said river and the use of the waters thereof; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity, friendly relations and mutual and common developments; to remove causes of present and future controversies, and to secure expe- ditious protection from said river and the expeditious agricultural and industrial developments of the Canadian River Basin; the storage and use of its waters and the protection of life and property from flood. "To these ends, the Canadian River Basin is divided into districts, according to the area thereof in each state, and an apportionment of the cost of control, and of the use of the allotted part of the waters of said river is made to each of them, with provisions that further and later equitable apportionment may be made as the project is developed to further the purpose of control and use of said stream. With the purpose and hope that the States of Kansas, Colorado, Louisiana, and Mississippi may join in this compact for the purpose of control of the Arkansas River System. |
