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<br />. <br /> <br />cluded within the Upper bivision and users of water within <br />said Division from causing any additional amount or amounts <br />of water to flow past Leeis Ferr,r for the benefit of the <br />territory.included within the Lower. Division, and from any <br />and every other or additional claim or assertion of right to <br />or servitude upon the Haters .ofthe river Hithin the Upper <br />Division for the benefit of the LowerDivision or of any users <br />of water therein; and that no claim of prior, preferred or <br />superior right to the use and benefit of any part of the waters <br />of the Colorado River or of any of the tributaries thereof, <br />Hithin the Upper Division, other than the amounts agreed to be <br />caused to floH past Lee's Ferry by said paragraph two (2) of <br />Article II, shall be made, asserted or recognized on behalf <br />or for the benefit of the territory included within the lower <br />Division; and, further, that subject only to the fulfillment <br />of the obligations expressed by said paragraph two (2; of <br />Article II and to the third paragraph of this Article, each <br />of the States whose territory is in part included within the <br />Upper Division shall have, possess, and enj oy the free and <br />unrestricted uses and benefits of the .waters of.said river <br />and of its tributaries as the same may flow within its terri_ <br />tory of the Upper Division, according to the constitution and <br />laws of each said State. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"And further agree that all rights, claims, and privileges <br />with respect to the use and administration of any reservoir <br />or reservoirs hereafter constructed Hithin the Upper Division <br />for flood control or other benefit Df.the territory included <br />within tneLoHer Division, shall be and .remain inferior, subor_ <br />dinated, and subservient to the superior and preferred rights <br />of diversion, use, and consumption of the waters of the Colo- <br />rado River.by the States and for the benefit of the territory <br />included within the Upper Division, expressed in paragraph <br />one (1) of this Article; and that all waters which may be dis- <br />charged from any such reservoir or reservoirs for carriage <br />in said river to the Lower Division and all waters stored in <br />any reservoir created b.v the erection of a dam across the <br />channel of the river at any place bet.:leen the mouth of the <br />San Juan River and a point ten (10) miles beloH Lee's Ferry, <br />shall constitute and be considered as a part of the waters <br />which it is agreed shall pass Lee's Ferry from the Upper Division <br />by paragraph two (2) of Article 11 of this con~act. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />"The States of the Upper Division, to..d t, the States of. <br />Arizona, Colorado, NeVI lvlexico, Utah, and Hymning do jointly <br />and severally agree. that any and all claims which now or here- <br />after may exist or arisebetVleen any of them ..lith respect to <br />the uses and benefits of the Vlaters of the Colorado River and <br />of any of its several tributaries,yithin the Upper Division <br />or Vlith respect to any claimed, contemplated, or desired <br />servitude or servitudes by or for anyone or more of them and <br />upon the streams or territory of anyone or more of the others <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />llth-S.F. <br />17 <br /> <br />25 <br />