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Show COLORADO RIVER COMPACT 57 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. W. S. Norviel W. F. MoClure Delph E. Carpenter J. G. Scrugham Stephen B. Davis, Jr. R. E. Caldwell Frank C. Emerson Approved: Herbert Hoover NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-The Act of August 19,1921 (42 Stat. 171), gave Congress' consent to the negotiation by the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming of "a compact or agreement not later than January 1, 1923, providing for an equitable division and apportionment among said States of the water supply of the Colorado River and of the streams tributary thereto * * *." Provision was made in the Act for appointment by the President of a person to participate in the negotiations "as the representative of and for the protection of the in- terests of the United States * * *." It was also provided that no compact so negotiated should become effective "unless and until the same shall have been approved by the legislature of each of said States and by the Congress of the United States." Congressional consent to compact.-By section 13, subsection (a), of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, 1064), the Con- gress "approved" the Colorado River Compact and waived the pro- vision of Article XI requiring that it be ratified by the legislatures of all seven States. In so doing, it provided that the Congress' approval should "become effective when the State of California and at least five of the other States mentioned, shall have approved or may here- after approve said compact * * * and shall consent to such waiver * * *." Section 4, subsection (a), of the same Act provided, among other things, that the Act should not be effective until the compact had been ratified by all seven States or until it had been ratified by California and five other States and "until the State of California b^ act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this Act, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the State of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of this Act and all water necessary for the supply of any 94-497-69------5 |
