WSP01726

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1958
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission - 1952-1958
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT

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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 herein contained establishes
any general principle or precedent applicable to other
interstate streams.

ARTICLE XVI

Nothing in this Compact shall be construed as affect-
ing the obligations of the United States of America to
Mexico under existing treaties, or to the Indian Tribes, or
as impairing the rights of the Indian Tribes.

ARTICLE XVII

This Compact shall become effective when ratified by
the legislatures of each of the signatory States and con-
sented to by the Congress of the United States. Notice of
ratification shall 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
United States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners have signed this
Compact in quadruplicate original, one of which shall be
deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the
United States of America and shall be deemed the authori~
tative original, and of which a duly certified copy shall
be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory
States.