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Show 282 INTERSTATE COMPACTS The Commission also resolved that these changes should become effective January 1,1949. Proposed amendment of compact.-By Act of April 11,1945 (Laws 1945, p. 100), New Mexico ratified a proposed amendment to the Rio Grande Compact by which there would have been inserted, after the second paragraph of its Article XII, the following: "There shall be established and maintained a fund, to be known as the Rio Grande Compact Fund, and all expenses incident to the ad- ministration of the Compact, other than the salaries and personal expenses of the Commissioners, shall be paid out of this Fund on order of the Commission. Each of the three States shall deposit the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars in the Rio Grande Com- pact Fund and each State shall reimburse this Fund quarterly upon presentation of claims by the Commission setting forth in reasonable detail the expenses paid by the Commission from this Fund." Earlier compact.--By the Act of June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 767), the Congress gave its "consent and approval" to a compact among the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas which had been signed February 12,1929, and which read as follows: "The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, and the State of Texas, desiring to remove all causes of present and future controversy among these States and between citizens of one of these States and citizens of another State with respect to the use of the waters of the Rio Grande above Fort. Quitman, Texas, and being moved by consider- ations of interstate comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for the attainment of these purposes, and to that end, through their re- spective governors, have named as their respective commissioners Delph E. Carpenter for the State of Colorado, Francis C. Wilson for the State of New Mexico, and T. H. McGregor for the State of Texas, who, after negotiations participated in by William J. Donovan, ap- pointed by the President as the representative of the United States of America, have agreed upon the following articles, to wit: "article i "(-a) The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Texas, and the United States of America are hereinafter designated 'Colorado,' 'New Mexico,' 'Texas,' and the 'United States,' respectively. " (b) The term 'Rio Grande Basin' means all of the territory drained by the Rio Grande and its tributaries in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas above Fort Quitman, Texas. "(c) The term 'tributary' means any water course the waters of which naturally flow into the channel of the Rio Grande. "(d) The 'Closed Basin' means that part of the San Luis Valley in Colorado where the streams and waters naturally flow and drain into the San Luis Lakes and adjacent territory, and the waters of which are not tributary to the Rio Grande. " (e) 'Domestic' use of water has the significance which attaches to the word 'domestic' in that sense at common law. 'Municipal' use means the use of water by or through water works serving the public. 'Agri- cultural' use means the use of wTater for the irrigation of land. |
