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edification. This will be coming up and you will be asked, perhaps, what it is all about. I was in hopes that Mr. Moses would be here to speak for his clients but being that he is not I will endeavor to give you the picture that you may understand it, since we are asking that this Board sponsor this legis- lation in the forthcoming Legislature. Mr. Moses represents certain clients in the area under irrigation on the Costilla Creek who purchase certain waters from other entities but it was necessary, before they could make use of these waters that they had purchased, to obtain a change in point of diversion. They went before the Colorado District Court and readily obtained such a change in point of diversion. The matter of jurisdiction was quickly raised by New Mexico and it was finally determined that the change could not be effected merely by granting of such change by the Colorado District Court but would, of necessity, require that this compact be amended. I We therefore started in on that angle of it. We've been at this for two or three years now during which time the Colorado people have been deprived of the use of this water, which they have bought and paid for, because of the complications involved in changing water under the terms of this compact, or, rather, chang- ing the point of diversion. It involves changing some 5~ (excuse the correction, Jimmy, but I'll get down to your figure a little later) cubic feet of water per second of time from what they call the Acequia Madre Ditch to the Cerro Canal. These ditches have their headgates directly across the stream from one another. There is no reach of stream involved. There is merely the diversion to the ditch, one on one side of the stream, the other on the other side. This complicates New Mexico's deliveries under the water left in the Acequia Madre to their users so it was finally agreed, among other things, that the people whom Mr. Moses represents would give 1