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<br />ARTICLE 111. <br /> <br />II Tl:w. High Contraoting Parties agree that the duty and <br />burden of supplying any "raters from the .flow of the Colorado <br />River within the United states of America to the Republioof <br />11exico or to any part of the territory of said nation, in:ful.,. <br />fillment of any obligation or obligations which may be deter- <br />mined to exist or vlhich hereafter ma{befi:iced, by treaty be- <br />tween the two natibns,shall.beequally:apportioned between and <br />equally borne .by the Upper Division and the LOvI61;' Diviflionof <br />the Colorado !liver within the UnitediStates of Americ8.; that the <br />annual delivery at Lee' sFerry, by tlfe States of the Upper <br />Division, of a quantity of water equivalent to one...;half the <br />annual amoUl1t required to satisfy any such international obli- <br />gations shall be a complete fulfillment of thepro\iisionsof <br />this Article by said states; and that the States'ofihe Lower <br />Division shall contribute annually a like amount of water from <br />those waters of ' the river annually to paGS Lee's Ferry for the <br />1o\;er Division, as provided by Paragraph two ,(2),of Article. <br />11. of thisco~aet, and from the flow of tributaries entering <br />the "riverbelolf Lee's Ferry, and further, shall. cause the water. <br />contributed by . both. divisions to be delivered toihe Republic <br />of Mexico in conformity vlith any sUoh treaWobl:tgations. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ARTICLE IV <br /> <br />. UAcontinuing joint Conunission is h",reby.designated <br />which .shal1 consist of !lli .Qfficio, the State v,ater Conunissioner <br />of the.State of Ariz.ona 'and the .stat.eEngin~ers. of the States <br />of California, Golorado, .Nevada, Nevi Mexico, Utah, and. Wyoming, <br />or of the officials of said several:States, upon vlhom may here- <br />after devqlve the duties'. of ascertaining the'flow of streams <br />now performed by the named State officials,.and of a person to <br />be designated by the Director of the Unite~,;States Geological <br />Surirey.orby the oi'fi,cial of the United'StatesofAmerica <br />upon whom may here'after devolve the duties of ascertaining the <br />flow of 'streams no\~ performed by said.nameo.official; and it <br />. shall. be .the duty of said joint ,colllJ!lission to .l1lllke provision <br />f.brasoertl),ining, determining, and publishing .the annual flows <br />of water in the Colorado River atlke's.FerJ:'y and, if hereafter <br />one or. inore Reservoirs are created $,t.or in the vicinity of <br />Lee's Ferry by the erection of a dam ,or d.aJns across the channel <br />.of the Colorado Iiver at any pointe:r points bGtwGen the mouth <br />.~of the San Juan !liver and a point t",n(lO) miles below Lee I <l <br />; ':Ferry ,. to .make pr9vision forasoertEi.in;ing, determining, and <br />qpublishing the flow of V1aterwhich. .~lOuld have annually passed <br />.. Lee' sFerry had no such dam ot dams.: been constructed. <br />;:'i:'; <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />. ARTICLE V . . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"The High Contracting Parties agree that compliance <br />"lith paragraph two (2) of' Article II of this Compact by the <br />States of ColoradO, New'Mexico, Utah, and \'iyoming shall wholly <br />relieve and exe~t the States 'who<le ~erritory is in part in- <br />. , 11th-S.F. <br />16 <br /> <br />." -' <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />24 <br />