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Show 288 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "article xvi "Nothing in this compact shall be considered or construed as recog- nizing, establishing, or fixing any status of the river or the accuracy of any data or records or the rights or equities of any of the signatories or as a recognition, acceptance, or acknowledgement of any plan or principle or of any claim or assertion made or advanced by either of the signatories or hereafter construed as in any manner establishing any principle or precedent as regards future equitable apportionment of the waters of the Bio Grande. The signatories agree that the plan herein adopted for administration of the waters of the Eio Grande is merely a temporary expedient to be applied during the period of time in this compact specified, is a compromise temporary in nature and shall have no other force or interpretation, and that the plan adopted as a basis therefor is not to be construed as in any manner establishing, acknowledging, or defining any status, condition, or prin- ciple at this or any other time. "article xvii "The signatories consent and agree to the extension of time for construction of reservoirs on sites covered by approved applications during the time of this compact and for a reasonable time thereafter. "article xviii "This compact shall become operative when approved by the legis- lature of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice of approval shall be given by the governor 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 its approval by the Congress of the United States. "In Witness Whereof, the commissioners have signed this com- pact in quadruplicate original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives 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 signa- tory States. "Done at the city of Santa Fe, in the State of New Mexico, on the 12th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. "Delph E. Carpenter "Francis C. Wilson "T.H. McGregor "Approved: "William J. Donovan" This compact had been ratified by Colorado, Act of April 9, 1929 (Sess. L. 1929, p. 548); by New Mexico, Act of March 9, 1929 (Laws 1929, p. 61); and by Texas, Act of May 22, 1929 (Laws 1929, 1st called sess., p. 29). The date of June 1, 1935, which appears in this compact was extended to June 1, 1937, and to October 1, 1937, by the Colorado legislature in its Acts of April 13, 1935 (Sess. L. |