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'-e.er. nothing herein shall be interpreted to.pre.ent recOUrse by a signatory state to the supreme Court of the United States for redress should the character or quality of the water, at the pOint OfdeJ,very, be changed hereafter by One Signatory state to the lnJury of another. Nothing herein shall be construed asan admission by any signatory state that the USe of water for irrigation causes Increase of salinity for which the user is responsible in law. ARTICLE Xl I To administer the provisions of this compact there Shall be constituted a commission composed of one representative from each state, to be known as the Rio Grande compact commission. The state englneer of Colorado Shall be ex officio the Rio Grande compact CDmmlSSloner for Colorado. The state engineer of New Mexico shall be ex officio the Rio Grande compact commissioner for New Mexico' The Rio Grande compact cornr.:issioner for Texas Shall be apPointed'by the governor of Texas. The President of the United States Shall be requested to designate a repreSentative of the United States to sit Wlth Such comllission. and such representative of the United States if so designated by the President, shall act as chairman of the ' commission without vote. The salaries and personal expenses of the Rio Grande compact commlssloners for the three states shaJ I be paid by their respective states, and all other expenses incident to the administration of this compact, not borne by the cnited States, shall be borne equally by the three states. In addition to the oowers and duties hereinbefore speCifically conferred upon such commission. and the members thereof. the juris_ diction of such commission Shall extend only to the collection, correlation and prESentation of factual data and the ~aintenance of recorcls having a bearing upon the ad~,jristratio" of this comract,' and. by unanlmous action, to the making of reCOrr>nendations to the respective .states upon :-:oatters connected 'r:~th the adr:inistr-ation of this compact. In connectionthere,.litn. the con"issicn may employ , s~ch.englneenng and clencal ald as o:ay be reasonably necessary wlthln the 11mlt of funds provided for that purpose by the r~spective. states. Annual reports compi7ed for each ~alenddr year shall be made by the cO:::l'lission and transr.itted to the ,;o'/e:'oors of the Signatory states on or before :.ldrch first follO\"inS the year covered by the report. The commission may, by unanilFlo:;S action, adopt rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of this compact to govern their proceedings. The findings of the Co,mission shall not be conclusive in any Court or tribunal \.,ftich may be called upon to interpret or enforce this compact. ARTICLE XII! At the expiration of every five year period after the effective da te of thi s compac t, tile commj ss i on may, by unan imous consent, revi e" any provisions hereof which are not substantive in character and which do not affect the basic prinCiples upon whirf) the conlpact is founded, and shall meet for the consideration of such questions on the request of any member of the commission; provided, however, that :, j I.} 1518 the pro.islons he~f shall remain in full force and effect untll changed and amended withln the Intent of the compact by unanimous action of the conmissioners, and until any changes in this compact are ratified by the legislatures of the respective states and consented to by the congress. in the same manner as this compact ;s required to be ratified to become effectlve. ARTICLE XIV . The schedules herein contained and the quantities of water herein allocated shall never be increased nor diminished by reason of any increase or diminution in the delivery or loss of water to Mexico. ARTICLE XV The physical and other conditions characteristic of the Rio Grande and peculiar to the territory drained and served thereby. and to ' the development thereof, have actuated this compact and none of the signatory states admits that any provisions herin contained establishes any general prinCiple or precedent applicable to other interstate streams. ARTICLE XVI Nothing in this compact shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United States of A~erica to Mexico under existing treaties, or to the Indian tribes. or as impairing the rights 0' l' the Indian tribes. <n ARTICLE XVII This compact shall become effective "hen ratified by the legis- latures of each of the signatory states and consented to by the congress of the United States. Notice of ratification snall 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 requested to give notice to the governors of each of the Signatory -states of the consent of the congress of the LnitEd States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the commissioners ilave signed tilis co~pact in quadruplicate original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State' of the United States of Arr.erica and Shall be deemed the authoritative original, and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the governor of each of the signatory states. Done at the city of Santa Fe, in the state of New Mexico, on the 18th day of March, in the year of Our lord, One Thousand 1hne Hundred and Thirty-eight. M. C. Hinderlider Thomas M. McClure Frank B. Clayton Approved: S. O. Harper