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~ -, ~ REPORT OF DELPH E. CARPENTER CO:IIMISSIO:\ER fOR COLORADO COLORADO 'RIVER cm,IMISSIO,," I:\' RE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT DeIl\.er, Colorado, Decemu.e[> 1;:;, ] !l:!2. . Ron. Oliver H. SbOll)), Governor of Colorado, Capitol Building, Den\"er. Sir: I have the honor to report that a compact he tween the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 'Vyoming, providing for the equitable division and appol'tionmeut of the use of the waters of the Colorado River, was signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November ::?4, 1922, bJ the Commissioners for said States, nnd wns approved by the Honor- able Herhert Hoover, Secretar;v of Commerce, I'epresentati\"e for the United States of America upon said Commission" I signed the compact as Commissioner for tbe State of Colo- rado, by your appointment, under authority of Chapter ~4l;, Ses- sion Laws, 1!)21, awl the Commissioners for the other States acted under authority of similar legislation_ The Honorable Herbert Hoover approved the compact, as the representative of the United States, UI~der authority of the Act of Congress approved August 19. ]92'1 (42 Statutes at Large, page 171). The compact was executed in a single original, which haR heen deposited in the archives of tlJe Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy has been forwarded to tbe .Governor of each of the signatory States. It shall become bind- ing and obligatorJ upon the signatories when approved by the Legislature of each of said Stntes nnd by tbe Cougress of tbe United States. I tr3u:'lrnit herewith a copy of the compact. It provides in substance ns follows: All territory within the United States of America, to which tbe waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries are 01' mal' be benefi(eial1J a.pplied, is designated as "the Colorado Hiver Bashl." The dl'uinng-e area of the river consists of two great natural sub- di\'ision~. riz., the upper region, lornted nhm-e the. head of the [:1 ] '-~'~':~-~",- .~