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Issue 1 THE LA PLATA RIVER COMPACT 121 ARTICLE III The State Engineers of the States by agreement, from time to time, may formulate niles and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this compact, which, when signed and promulgated by them, shall be binding until amended by agreement between them or until terminated by written notice from one to the other. ARTICLE IV Whenever any official of either State is designated to perform any duty under this, compact, such designation shall be interpreted to include the State official or officials upon whom the duties now performed by such official may hereafter devolve. ARTICLE V The physical and other conditions peculiar to the La Plata River and the territory drained and served thereby constitute the basis for this compact, and neither of the signatory States concedes the establishment of any general principle or precedent by the concluding of this compact. ARTICLE VI This compact may be modified or terminated at any time by mutual consent of the signatory States and upon such termination all rights then established hereunder shall continue unimpaired. ARTICLE VII This compact shall become operative when approved by the Legislature of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice of approval by the Legislatures shall be given by the Governor of each State to the Governor of the other State, and the President of the' United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The commiSSIOners have signed this compact in duplicate originals, one of which shall be deposited with the Secretary of State of each of the signatory States. Done at the city of Santa Fe, in the State of New Mexico, this 27th day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Two. Delph E. Carpenter, Stephen B. Davis,Jr.