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Article IX <br />Colorado agrees with New Mexico that in event the United States or the state of New Mexico decides to construct <br />the necessary works for diverting the waters of the San Juan river, or any of its tributaries, into the Rio Grande, <br />Colorado hereby consents to the construction of said works and the diversion of waters from the San Juan river, or the <br />tributaries thereof, into the Rio Grande in New Mexico, provided the present and prospective uses of water in Colorado <br />by other diversions from the San Juan river, or its tributaries are protected. <br />Article X <br />In the event water from another drainage basin shall be imported into the Rio Grande basin by the United States or <br />Colorado or New Mexico, or any of them jointly, the state having the right to the use of such water shall be given <br />proper credit therefor in the application of the schedules. <br />Article XI <br />New Mexico and Texas agree that upon the effective date of this compact all controversies between said states <br />relative to the quantity or quality of the water of the Rio Grande are composed and settled; however, nothing herein <br />shall be interpreted to prevent recourse by a signatory state to the supreme court of the United States for redress should <br />the character or quality of the water, at the point of delivery, be changed hereafter by one signatory state to the injury of <br />another. Nothing herein shall be construed as an admission by any signatory state that the use of water for irrigation <br />causes increase of salinity for which the user is responsible in law. <br />Article XII <br />To administer the provisions of this compact there shall be constituted a commission composed of one <br />representative from each state, to be known as the Rio Grande compact commission. The state engineer of Colorado <br />shall be ex officio the Rio Grande compact commissioner for Colorado. The state engineer of New Mexico shall be ex <br />officio the Rio Grande compact commissioner for New Mexico. The Rio Grande compact commissioner for Texas <br />shall be appointed by the governor of Texas. The President of the United States shall be requested to designate a <br />representative of the United States to sit with such commission, and such representative of the United States, if so <br />designated by the President, shall act as chairman of the commission without vote. <br />The salaries and personal expenses of the Rio Grande compact commissioners for the three states shall be paid by <br />their respective states, and all other expenses incident to the administration of this compact, not borne by the United <br />States, shall be borne equally by the three states. <br />In addition to the powers and duties hereinbefore specifically conferred upon such commission, and the members <br />thereof, the jurisdiction of such commission shall extend only to the collection, correlation and presentation of factual <br />data and the maintenance of records having a bearing upon the administration of this compact, and, by unanimous <br />action, to the making of recommendations to the respective states upon matters connected with the administration of <br />this compact. In connection therewith, the commission may employ such engineering and clerical aid as may be <br />reasonably necessary within the limit of funds provided for that purpose by the respective states. Annual reports <br />compiled for each calendar year shall be made by the commission and transmitted to the governors of the signatory <br />states on or before March first following the year covered by the report. The commission may, by unanimous action, <br />adopt rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of this compact to govern their proceedings. <br />The findings of the Commission shall not be conclusive in any court or tribunal which may be called upon to <br />interpret or enforce this compact. <br />Article XIII <br />At the expiration of every five year period after the effective date of this compact, the commission may, by <br />unanimous consent, review any provisions hereof which are not substantive in character and which do not affect the <br />basic principles upon which the compact is founded, and shall meet for the consideration of such questions on the <br />