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Station in compliance with this compact without necessity of enactment of special statutes for such purposes by the <br />General Assembly of the State of Colorado. <br />Article IX <br />The physical and other conditions peculiar to the South Platte River and to the territory drained and served thereby <br />constitute the basis for this compact and neither of the signatory States hereby concedes the establishment of any <br />general principle or precedent with respect to other interstate streams. <br />Article X <br />This compact may be modified or terminated at any time by mutual consent of the signatory States, but, if so <br />terminated and Nebraska or its citizens shall seek to enforce any claims of vested rights in the waters of the South <br />Platte River, the statutes of limitation shall not run in favor of Colorado or its citizens with reference to claims of the <br />Western Irrigation District to the water of the South Platte River from the sixteenth day of April, 1916, and as to all <br />other present claims from the date of the approval of this compact to the date of such termination, and the State of <br />Colorado and its citizens who may be made defendants in any action brought for such purpose shall not be permitted to <br />plead the statutes of limitation for such period of time. <br />Article XI <br />This compact shall become operative when approved by the Legislature of each of the signatory States and by the <br />Congress of the United States. Notice of approval by the Legislature shall be given by the Governor of each State to the <br />Governor of the other State and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested <br />to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of the approval by the Congress of the United States. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners have signed this compact in duplicate originals, one of which shall <br />be deposited with the Secretary of State of each of the Signatory States. <br />Done at Lincoln, in the State of Nebraska, this 27th day of April, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine <br />Hundred and Twenty-three. <br />Delph E. Carpenter, <br />Robert H. Willis. <br />Source: L. 25: p. 529, § 1. not in CSA. CRS 53: § 148-4-1. C.R.S. 1963: § 149-4-1. <br />ANNOTATION <br />Am. Jur.2d. See 78 Am. Jur.2d, Waters, §§ 71, 72. <br />C.J.S. See 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 8, 31; 93 C.J.S., Waters, § 10. <br />