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<br />.. <br /> <br />subservient, and subordinated to thc diversions, uses, and the <br />necessary consumption of thc waters of,thc stream and its tri- <br />butaries for domestic, municipal, agricultural, pOl,er, manu- <br />facturing, and other similar purposes and .shall not prevent <br />or interfere with .the construction, maintenance, and operation <br />of such workp or means or diversion and storage as may be <br />necessary or essential to.cffectuate such preferred and superi- <br />or beneficial Jses. ' <br /> <br />:!bRT~~ Vlll. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />"The High Contracting Parties agree with respect to the <br />States of each Division of the Colorado River jEter ~, <br />that all rights to tho usc of any of the waters of said stream <br />and of its tributaries within the Division for purposes <br />of' generating power or of manufacture, hereafter shall vest <br />and be exercised in all respects as inforior, subscrvient, <br />and subordinate c1 to all present and future uscs and necessary <br />consumption, of the Hatcrs within the Division for domestic, <br />municipal, a.gricultural, and other similar purposcs and shall <br />not hinder, interfere \Jith or prevent the construction, main- <br />tenance, and operation of such\./orks or means of diversion and <br />storage wi thin the Division as may be necessa.ry or essential <br />to effectuate such prefcrred and superior beneficial uses, <br />.I2!.QYided, ,hoHever, that tho provisicms of this Article <br />shall not apply to or intorfere ,dth the intrastate regulation <br />and control of the appropriation, useG or distribution of <br />Haters Hithin any statc according to its constitution, laHs and <br />. the decisions of. its' courts. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ARTICLE IX. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />"The High Contracting Paries agree that the division, <br />apportionment, and distribution of the Haters of the Colorado <br />River provided by this Compact and the methods adopted and the <br />principles applied, are bascd entirely upon tho physical and <br />other conditions peculiar to the stream and to the territory <br />drained or to be .sorv'ed and that none of the High Contracting <br />p",rties in any way concede the establisl1Jilent of any general <br />principle or precedent by thc concluding of this compact and <br />particularly with Tespe.ct to the equitable apportionment of or <br />the rights of the States to the Haters of other rivers or with <br />respect to tho disposition intsu: sese,. of the Haters of streams <br />tributary to the Colorado River and COiMlon tc two or more states <br />Hhose territory is included Hithin either Division; and the con- <br />cluding of this compact shall not be construed as a recognition <br />. of an acknowledgment .by any of the contracting States of any <br />principle or precedent by virtue of vhich any State may lay <br />claim to or establish any servitude for its use or benefit <br />upon the territory or the. streams flo;dng Hithin any other <br />State or States. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />llth-S.F. <br />19 <br /> <br />27 <br />