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Show <J0^rWEOflSAj* DRIVER COMPACT 83 "ARTICLE IX "In order that an adequate fund may be established and created from which payments for the (acquisition of lands, easements, and rights-of-way may be made, the signatory States become bound and each hereby obligates itself to pay to the Commission, the proportion of the cost of acquisition of lands, easements, and rights-of-way respectively set forth below, and subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, as follows: " (1) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts fifty per cent thereof. " (2) The State of Connecticut forty per cent thereof. " (3) The State of New Hampshire five per cent thereof. "(4) The State of Vermont five per cent thereof. "Provided, however, That it is the understanding, intent, and purposes of the parties hereto that the cost of acquisition of lands, easements, and rights-of-way for eight reservoirs, provided for herein, shall not exceed the sum of Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,700,000) and that the drainage area of the Connecticut River Basin to be controlled thereby shall be approximately seven find 61/100 (7.61) per cent thereof; and it is expressly provided that the maximum amount to which each of the signatory States shall be bound or obligated for cost of acquisition of lands, easements, and rights-of-wiay on account of said eight reservoirs shall not exceed the respective proportions hereinbefore set forth of said sum of Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,700,000). "The fiscal year shall be deemed to begin on July 1 and end on June 30. Payment by the signatory States of the cost of acquisition shall be made as and when requested by the Commission on or after July 1, 1937; provided that not more than one-half of said sum of Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,700,000) shall be required to be paid in any fiscal year after said date. "article x "In the execution of the initial plan of eight reservoirs herein contemplated said Commission, with the approval of the Secretary of War, shall determine the order in which the construction work of the same shall be commenced and prosecuted, except that it is hereby declared to be the intent and purpose of the signatory States that construction work shall be first begun on one reservoir project located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and upon one reservoir project located respectively in each of the States of New Hampshire and Vermont before further construction work is begun on any other reservoir. "The initial plan for the construction of eight reservoirs herein mentioned and provided for is part of a long-range comprehensive program for flood control on the Connecticut River and its tributaries, the object and purpose of the signatory States being to enlarge and expand such flood-control projects to an ultimate control, including the reservoirs hereinabove mentioned of approximately twenty-one per cent of the drainage area thereof, at a total maximum cost to the signatory States, including the cost herein specified, of not to |