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37 -61 -101. Colorado River compact.
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<br />The General Assembly hereby approves the compact, designated as the "Colorado
<br />River Compact ", signed at the City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, on the 24th day of
<br />' November, A.D. 1922, by Delph E. Carpenter, as the Commissioner for the State of
<br />Colorado, under authority of and in conformity with the provisions of an act of the
<br />General Assembly of the State of Colorado, approved April 2, 1921, entitled "An Act
<br />' providing for the appointment of a Commissioner on behalf of the State of Colorado to
<br />negotiate a compact and agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado,
<br />Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and between said States and the United States
<br />' respecting the use and distribution of the waters of the Colorado River and the rights of
<br />said States and the United States thereto, and making an appropriation therefor. ", the
<br />same being Chapter 246 of the Session Laws of Colorado, 1921, and signed by the
<br />' Commissioners for the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and
<br />Wyoming, under legislative authority, and signed by the Commissioners for said seven
<br />States and approved by the Representative of the United States of America under
<br />' authority and in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the Congress of the United
<br />States, approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement
<br />between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and
<br />' Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado
<br />River, and for other purposes. ", which said compact is as follows:
<br />' Colorado River Compact
<br />The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and
<br />Wyoming, having resolved to enter into a compact, under the Act of the Congress of the
<br />' United States of America approved August 19, 1921, (42 Statutes at Large, page 171),
<br />and the Acts of the legislatures of the said states, have through their Governors appointed
<br />' as their commissioners:
<br />W. S. Norviel, for the State of Arizona;
<br />W. F. McClure, for the State of California;
<br />' Del p h E. Carpenter, for the State of Colorado;
<br />' J. G. Scrugham, for the State of Nevada;
<br />Stephen B. Davis, Jr., for the State of New Mexico;
<br />R. E. Caldwell, for the State of Utah;
<br />Frank C. Emerson, for the State of Wyoming;
<br />' who, after negotiations participated in by Herbert Hoover appointed by the President
<br />as the representative of the United States of America, have agreed upon the following
<br />' articles:
<br />Article I
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