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<br />FOREV{ORD <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />This is a mimeographed reproduction of the minutes of meetl.ngs <br /> <br />i" <br />. <br /> <br />19 to 27 inclusive of the Commission which negotiated the Colorado River <br /> <br />Compact. The Compact was signed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on November 24,~_ <br /> <br />1922. Subsequently it was ratified by all of the seven Colorado River <br /> <br />Basin States and, in 1928, approved by the Congress of the United States. <br /> <br />There were a total of twenty-seven meetings of the Commission <br /> <br />as follows: <br /> <br />First to-Seventh, Washington, D'. C., January 26-30, 1922; <br />Eighth,'Phoenix, Arizona, March 15, 1922; Ninth, Denvor, Colorado, <br />April 1, 1922; Tenth to Twenty-seventh, Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe, New <br />Mexico> November 9-24, 1922. <br /> <br />The Minutes of the First Eighteen Sessions are included in a <br /> <br />separate volume. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />This mimeographed reproduction was prepared from a copy used <br /> <br />.: <br /> <br />by Mr. Frank Delancy of Glcnwood Springs, Colorado during the course of <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />the lawsuit United States of America v. Northern Colorado iiater Conservancy <br /> <br />District, et al., Civil Nos. 2782p 5016 and,S017, in the United States <br /> <br />District Court for the District of Colorado._ <br /> <br />It will be noted that only the Minutes of the first part of <br /> <br />meeting number twenty-six. held Friday, November 24, 1922, at 10:00 a.m. <br /> <br />at Santa Fe, New Mexico are included in this volume. In reeent years <br /> <br />inquiry and search made by various persons for the minutes of subsequent <br /> <br />parts of mteeting number twenty-six have failed to uncover them. A note <br /> <br />at the end of the first part of this meeting states "(First part of <br /> <br />, ." <br /> <br />l~ .f <br />..'. <br />V <br />~-': <br /> <br />meeting held Friday, Nov. 24, '22 at 10 a,m. (concluded) )", which in- <br /> <br />dicates that there must have been a subsequent part or parts of meeting <br /> <br />number twenty-six. A careful reading of-the Minutes of this meeting <br /> <br />further substantiates this conelusion. <br /> <br />April 10, 1956 <br /> <br />IvaI V. Goslin <br />Engineer-Secretary <br /> <br />.~.~,~""" <br /> <br />" ~ ,.. ---;,.". <br />