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Show 338 INTERSTATE COMPACTS ARTICLE IX This compact shall become operative and effective when ratified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut and approved by the Congress of the United States. Notice of ratifi- cation shall be given by the governor of each state to the governor of the other state and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the gover- nors of each of the signatory states of approval by the Congress of the United States. NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Joint Resolution of June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1490), the Congress gave its consent to the negotiation by certain named States-among them, the parties to the Thames River Compact-of "agreements or compacts for conserving and regulating the flow, lessening flood damage, removing sources of pollution of the waters thereof, or making other public improvements on any rivers or streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said States." The Joint Resolution also provided that no compact or agreement so entered into should be "binding or obliga- tory upon any State a party thereto unless and until it has been approved by the kgislatures of each of the States whose assent is contemplated by the terms of the compact or agreement and by the Congress." State ratifications.-Connecticut, Act of June 7, 1957 (Public Acts 1957, p. 837; Conn. Gen. Stat. 1958, sec. 25-101). Massachusetts, Act of July 31,1957 (Acts and Resolves 1957, p. 499; Mass. Gen. L. Ann. 1958, ch. 91 App., sec. 3-1). Congressional consent to compact.-The Congress gave its "consent and approval" to the Thames River Flood Control Compact by the Act of July 18,1958 (72 Stat. 364), from which the text above set out is taken. Section 2 of this Act "expressly reserved" to the Congress the "right to alter, amend, or repeal" the Act. For legislative history, see S. 2964 and H.R. 9924, 85th Congress; Senate Report 1690 (Commit- tee on Public Works) and House Report 2105 (Committee on Public Works), 85th Congress; 104 Cong. Bee. 11910, 12982 (1958); P.L. 85-526. |