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Show RIO GRANDE, COLORADO, TIJUANA TREATY 479 or protocol shall be construed as impairing the power of the Congress of the United States to define the terms of office of members of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Com- mission or to provide for their appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate or otherwise. "(c) That nothing contained in the treaty or protocol shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary of State of the United States, the Commissioner of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, or the United States Section of said Commission, directly or indirectly to alter or control the dis- tribution of water to users within the territorial limits of any of the individual States. "(d) That 'international dam or reservoir' means a dam or reser- voir built across the common boundary between the two countries. "(e) That the words 'international plants', appearing in article 19, mean only hydroelectric generating plants in connection with dams built across the common boundary between the two countries. "(f) That the words 'electric current', appearing in article 19, mean hydroelectric power generated at an international plant. "(g) That by the use of the words 'The jurisdiction of the Com- mission shall extend to the limitrophe parts of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) and the Colorado River, to the land boundary between the two countries, and to works located upon their common bound- ary * * *' in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph of article 2, is meant: 'The jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend and be limited to the limitrophe parts of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) and the Colorado River, to the land boundary between the two coun- tries, and to works located upon their common boundary * * *.' "(h) The word 'agreements' whenever used in subparagraphs (a), (c), and(d) of article 24 of the treaty shall refer only to agreements entered into pursuant to and subject to the provisions and limitations of treaties in force between the United States of America and the United Mexican States. "(i) The word 'disputes' in the second paragraph of article 2 shall have reference only to disputes between the Governments of the United States of America and the United Mexican States. "(j) First, that the one million seven hundred thousand acre-feet specified in subparagraph (b) of article 10 includes and is not in addition to the one million five hundred thousand acre-feet, the delivery of which to Mexico is guaranteed in subparagraph (a) of article 10; second, that the one million five hundred thousand acre- feet specified in three places in said subparagraph (b) is identical with the one million five hundred thousand acre-feet specified in said subparagraph (a); third, that any use by Mexico under said sub- paragraph (b) of quantities of water arriving at the Mexican points of diversion in excess of said one million five hundred thousand acre- feet shall not give rise to any future claim of right by Mexico in excess of said guaranteed quantity of one million five hundred thousand acre-feet of water. " (k) The United States recognizes a duty to require that the pro- tective structures to be constructed under article 12, paragraph (a), of this treaty, are so constructed, operated, and maintained as to adequately prevent damage to property and lands within the United |
