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Show cot(MM>cr MVfiS1 tfcjMPACT 61 " 'Domestic use' includes the use of water for household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like purposes, but excludes the generation of electrical power. "article hi " (a) 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 the Boulder Canyon Project Act and all waters necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist, shall not exceed four million, four hundred thousand acre feet of the waters appor- tioned to the Lower Basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said Colorado River Com- pact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of said compact. " (b) Of the seven million, five hundred thousand acre feet annually apportioned to the Lower Basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, there is hereby apportioned annually to the state of Nevada three hundred thousand acre feet and annually to the state of Arizona two million, eight hundred thousand acre feet for the exclusive beneficial consumptive use by said states of Nevada and Arizona, respectively, in perpetuity. "(c) The state of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River Compact. "(d) In addition to the water covered by paragraphs (b) and (c) hereof, the state of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial con- sumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the bound- aries of the state of Arizona in perpetuity. " (e) The waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico, but if, as provided in paragraph (c) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, it shall become necessary to supply water to the United States of Mexico from waters over and above the quantities which are surplus as defined by said Colorado River Compact, then the state of California shall and does mutually agree with the> state of Arizona to supply, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, one-half of any deficiency which must be supplied to Mexico by the Lower Basin. "(f) Neither the states of Arizona, California nor Nevada will withhold water nor require the delivery of water which can not reason- ably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses. "(g) All the provisions of this compact or agreement shall be sub- ject in all particulars to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact. "article iv "This compact or agreement shall take effect and become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Congress of the United States of America, by the legislatures of each of the states of Arizona, California and Nevada and Avhen the States of Arizona, California and Nevada shall have ratified the Colorado River Com- |