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Show 244 INTERSTATE COMPACTS incident to the diversion, impounding, or conveyance of water in one state for use in the other state shall be charged to such latter state. ARTICLE XIII This Compact shall not be construed as establishing any general principle or precedent applicable to other interstate streams. article xiv This Compact may be terminated at any time by appropriate action of the legislatures of both of the signatory states. In the event of such termination, all rights established under it shall continue unimpaired. ARTICLE XV This Compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been ratified by the legislature of each State and approved by_ the Congress of the United States. Notice of ratification by the legisla- ture of each State shall be given by the Governor of that State to the Governor of the other State and to the President of the United States, and the President is hereby requested to give notice to the Governor of each State of approval by the Congress of the United States. In Witness Whereof, the Commissioners have executed three coun- terparts hereof each of which shall be and constitute an original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and one of which shall be forwarded to the Governor of each State. Done at the City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, this 3d day of December, 1948. John H. Bliss Commissioner for the State of New Mexico Charles H. Miller Commissioner for the State of Texas Approved: Berkeley Johnson ^Representative of the United States of America NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-Congressional consent to the negotiation of a compact providing for "an equitable division and apportionment * * * of the water supply" of the Pecos Kiver was given by the Act of March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 1502). The consent was given "upon condition that a representative of the United States from the Department of the Interior, to be appointed by the President, shall par- ticipate 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 the compact should not be effective until it had been "approved" by the legislatures of the States concerned and by the Congress. State ratifications.-New Mexico, Act of Feb. 9,1949 (Laws 1949, p. 31; N. M. Stat. 1953 Ann., sec. 75-34-3 note). |
