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<br />for flood control in the Tennessee vfllJW nor .M:{t~ri:tll~l incrAnsed either agricul-
<br />t~r"l o~ indnstrial'developMent of the region, but. has, on tho oont~nry, perman-
<br />ently destroye.d production fron over 300,000 acres of the best farm land in Tonn-
<br />essee and dispossessed 9,200 families - 46,000 ~ersons _ at the srune time destroy-
<br />ing all loc.l industries by mi.ch these people lived and roducing tax l'ovenues
<br />of local governments, all .,t the expense of 1,1r~e de1'i cit.s mich constitute sub-
<br />sidies by tho rest of the Unit"d States to th', nuthorit)' r"gion,
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<br />er Consorv.1tion District, in their regular ~uRrterly meoting held tllis doy at
<br />Glen',/ooci Srrings, Color:\do, th.llt the? llre un:'=llter~bl~l opposp.d to thc.l crefltion of
<br />any river nuthorit~r, for rel\sons too numm"ous to st"tp in U~1s Olle l"p.solution,
<br />some of which, however, nre 's follows: t,.,t ,,11 o~ toe o"r.di~". authority bills
<br />ore unconstitutional in view of the repeoted decisions of the Sup!''''''' Court of
<br />the United States, and if thoy prevail will destro:: the hil.herto unnuest.ior\ed
<br />right of the states to control t.heir rivors ~nd t"" use (,1' thnir waters, in con-
<br />formit.y with their locel necessities; thot owners of watfr. rights, ns well as in~
<br />tending users of wat.er will be reduced to mer" tcmncy in the uso of >int.,'r at the
<br />solo discretion of the proposed authorities; thilt ev"ry form of governmental,
<br />puo1ic Or privoto enterprise within the territcryof any such authority will b.'come
<br />dependent uron, and will be controlled by, the so extra1ege1 bodies acting in op-
<br />position to the lawful ar,encios of government now existing; that not.hing in the
<br />record of t.he one existing ri vCr authority gives "J1Y hore thilt such suporgovern-
<br />ments C.:ln p~rforr:\ with compnrAble econof1J,.v the fW1ctions of production, business
<br />Or p'overnment as well as these things c~n be ilnd are bein~ done by individuals
<br />and businesses in their privtite c[\pacity or b~, locn.l units of gOVf.'rnr.1ent i"n. their
<br />lawful governmentill oreriltion,
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<br />AND ~E IT FURTHER RESOLVED thot. copi,)s of t.his resolution he prep;m,d Ilnd trilns-
<br />mitt.en to tho President of the United StAtes, the Secretary of the Interior, tho
<br />authors of the severill authority bills ond the deler"ntion of the St.ct" of Colo-
<br />rado in the Congress of the United States.
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<br />Done at Glenwood Srri nf's, Coloro,do,
<br />on this 17th, dny of AnriJ, A.D. 1945.
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