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1 <br /> xl <br /> m <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> 19 <br /> 0 <br /> m <br /> o. <br /> resources department of Kansas, and he has been occupied <br /> some on these matters before, and if the commission does m' <br /> not object to one not a commissioner I would like to hear <br /> 0 <br /> from Mr. Noe. <br /> x7 <br /> CHAIRMAN KRAMER: Certainly, we will be glad to hear <br /> from Kr. Noe in his own right. We have afforded the <br /> privilege to Judge Stone and others to participate in <br /> our proceedings, and Mr. Noe is generally pretty silent, <br /> as Secretary, but he can shed that role and speak his <br /> legal opinion, if he wishes. <br /> SECRETARY NOE: Of course, I am not familiar with what <br /> the Colorado courts have held or might hold on the subject, <br /> but the thought occurs to me that the Kansas Supreme <br /> Court in considering the validity and constitutionality <br /> of the 1929 Water Conservation Act, which provided for a <br /> composite court of three judges, as I remember it, and <br /> extended the boundaries of their jurisdictional districts <br /> by doing so, held that it was an invalid and uncon- <br /> stitutional act because the legislature could not extend <br /> the jurisdictional boundaries of those courts. <br /> if that is true, I am wondering if the two states <br /> through acts of their legislatures and approval of the <br /> Congress could empower the Colorado courts to consider <br /> matters which might be outside the jurisdiction of the <br />