WSP07124

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/26/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission on Compact Negotiations - Introduction to Minutes
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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FOREWORD

This is a mimeographed reproduction of the minutes of eighteen meet-

ings or sessions of the Commission which negotiated the Colorado River Com-

pact. The Compact was signed in Santa Fe, New ~~xico, on the 24th day of

November, 1922. Subsequently it was ratified by all of the seven Colorado

River Basin States and, in 1928, approved by the Congress of the United States.

There were in all twenty-seven sessions held by the Commission as

follows:

First to Seventh, Washington, D. C., January 26-30, 1922;
Eighth, Phoenix, Arizona, March 15, 1922; Ninth, Denver, Colorado
April 1, 1922; Tenth to Twenty_seventh, Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, November 9-24, 1922.

The minutes of the first eighteen sessions are included in this yolume.

Those for the Nineteenth to the Twenty-seventh sessions, inclusive, are not

now available.

This'mimeographed reproduction was prepared from a photostatic copy of
the minutes supplied by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Ini>etior.,

A note from the Bureau of Reclamation concerning these photosta:t.ic cop:Les,

from which this mimeographed copy was prepared, states:

"NOTE:
"Data on the preceding image indicates that there were a total
of twenty_seven (27) meetings of the Commission, This record con';
eludes with the minutes of the eighteenth (18) meeting.
"Correspondence and search conducted in 1940 and 1941 failed to
result in the location of the original minutes of the Commission or
of another copy of the minutes which would permit the completion of
the record.

Bureau of Reclamation"

This mimeographed copy is as nearly an exact reproduction of the above

mentioned photostatic copy as possible and sets forth on each mimeograph page

only the material which appears on the corresponding photostatic page,

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