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<br />Strike the Introduotion on pages 1 and 2 and substitute the following: <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />j <br />i <br />jr <br /> <br />The Department of State of the United States has negotiated a treaty with <br /> <br />Mexioo relating to the uses of the waters of the Colorado River, the Lower Rio <br /> <br />Grande below Fort Quitman and the Tijuana River. This treaty was, signed on <br /> <br />February 3. 1944 and transmitted by the President to the Senate of the United <br /> <br />States on February 15, 1944. An interpretative protocol supplementary to the <br /> <br /> <br />treaty was signed by representatives of the two Governments on November 14, 1944 <br /> <br />and transmitted to the Senate by the President on November 24, 1944. <br /> <br />The following is a disoussion of the teohnioal provisions of the treaty <br /> <br />and an appraisal of their effeots upon the uses of water in the United States. <br /> <br />The disoussion is divided into several seotions. The first seotion oonsists of <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />a summary and oonolusion. The next seotion is a general disoussion of the inter- <br /> <br />", <br />, <br /> <br />national and domestio situation existing on the border streams, whioh makee a <br /> <br />treaty desirable. <br /> <br />The provisions in the treaty relating to the Lower Rio Grande are next dis- <br /> <br />oussed. Those terms of the treaty relating to the Colorado River are then dis- <br /> <br />oussed, and oonolusions of the writer are given oonoerning the effeot of the <br /> <br />provisions of the treaty on water uses in the United States. A short disoussion <br /> <br />of the treaty as it relates to the Tijuana River follows. California's position <br /> <br />next is outlined in SOlOO detail. Her,c,major teohnioal objeotions to the treaty <br /> <br />are given together with a disoussion of those objeotions. <br /> <br />Three <br /> <br />appendioes oontaining baokground material are attaohed. Appendix <br /> <br />A is a desoription of the Lower Rio Grande Basin, and inoludes a disoussion of <br /> <br />-,' <br />,. <br /> <br />the water supply and the present and prospeotive future development in the United <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />States and in Mexioo. <br /> <br />Appendix B is a desoription of the Colorado River Basin with speoial emphasis <br />