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<br />O - 'j S ~ ? <br />, Jl J.. <br /> <br />< :.. <br /> <br />-21- <br /> <br />the President by public proclamation shall have <br />so declared, or (2) if said States fail to ratify <br /> <br />the said compact 1,]i thin six p01'lths from the dat e <br />of the passage of this act then, until six of said <br />St2tes, includins the Stnte of California, shall <br />ratify saitl compact .:'nd shall consent to I,aive the <br />provisions of the first paraGraph of Article XI of <br /> <br />said compe.ct, u:1ich maJ~es the same binding and obliGatory <br /> <br />cnJy when 2,::,:,rovecl by ea.ch of the seven States <br /> <br />signatory thereto, ,"nc. shall have r-..proved said compact <br />'Ii thout con()i tionc, save that of such six-State apfroval, <br />am1 the President by public procle.mation shE'll have so <br />declared, and, further, until the State of California, <br /> <br />by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably <br />and uncondl tionally 'Ii th the United States and for the <br />benefit of the Ste.tes of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, <br />Neu l,.exico, Utah anc1 \Jyominc;, as an express covenant <br />and in consideration of the passa~e of this act, that <br />the agGregate annual consumptive use ( diversions less <br />returns to the river) of 1-Tater of and from the <br />Colorado River for use in the State of California, in- <br /> <br />cludinS all uses under contracts ~2de under the pro- <br /> <br />visXons of this act and ell 'Tater necessary for the <br /> <br />supply of any riGhtE, '-Thich may nOIoT exist, shall not <br />exceed 4,400,000 acre_feet of the Faters alJportioned <br />to the 10Her basin States by paracre,ph (a) of <br />