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Show 280 INTERSTATE COMPACTS of each State to the Governors of the other States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is re- quested to give notice to the Governors of each of the signatory States of the consent of the Congress of the United States. In Witness Whereof, the Commissioners have signed this Compact in quadruplicate original, one of which shall be deposited in the ar- chives of the Department of State of the United States of America and shall be deemed the authoritative original, 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, in the State of New Mexico, on the 18th day of March, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Eight. M. C. HlNDERLIDER Thomas M. MoCltjre Frank B. Clayton Approved: S. O. Harper NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By two Acts of March 2, 1929, chs. 520 and 521 (45 Stat. 1502), the Congress gave its con- sent to the negotiation of Rio Grande compacts by, respectively, the States of Colorado and New Mexico and the States of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The first consent was "upon condition that a representative of the United States from any department of the United States Government, to be appointed by the President, shall participate in the negotiations and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agreement entered into." The second consent was similar but required the United States representa- tive to be chosen from the Department of the Interior. Both acts provided that any compact should be effective only after it had been "approved" by the State legislatures and by the Congress. See also Article VII of the 1929 Rio Grande Compact, set forth hereafter in these notes. State ratifications.-Colorado, Act of February 21, 1939 (Sess. L. 1939, p. 489; Colo. Rev. Stat. 1963, sec. 149-5-1). New Mexico, Act of March 1, 1939 (Laws 1939, p. 59; 1953 N.M. Stat. Ann., sec. 75-34-3 note). Texas, Act of March 1, 1939 (Spec L. 1939, p. 531; Vernon's Rev. Civ. Stat. Aim. 1954, art. 7466&-1). Congressional consent to compact.-The Congress gave its "consent and approval" to the Rio Grande Compact by the Act of May 31, 1939 (53 Stat. 785), from which the text above set out is taken. For legislative history, see II. R. 4997 and S. 1808, 76th Congress; House Report 525 (Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation) and Senate Report 445 (Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation), 76th Congress; 84 Cong. Bee. 5157-5160, 5795 (1939) ; P. L. 96, 76th Congress. Change in Article IV.-By a resolution adopted at its annual meet- ing, February 22-24, 1948 (see Tenth Annual Report of the Bio Grande Compact Commission (1948), pp. 17ff), the Commission found- |