Colorado River Basin: Hearings, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 727, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Colorado River |
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Page 313 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from the waters which are surplus...
Page 51 - Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States...
Page 27 - It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction.
Page 313 - Lower Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the System below Lee Ferry. (h) The term "domestic use...
Page 242 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Page 58 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as modifying in any manner the existing contract, dated October 23, 1918, between the United States and the Imperial Irrigation District...
Page 3 - Corps during the war with Germany, the war with Spain, or in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines, and who have been honorably separated or discharged therefrom or placed in the Regular Army or...
Page 313 - In addition to the apportionment in paragraph (a) the Lower Basin is hereby given the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre-feet per annum.
Page 313 - System above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system above Lee Ferry. (g) The term "Lower Basin...
Page 3 - Interior, such lands shall be opened for entry, in tracts varying in size but not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the reclamation law, and any such...
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| Title | Colorado River Basin: Hearings, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 727, Parts 1-2 Volumes 1-2 of Colorado River Basin, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation Parts 1-2 of Colorado River Basin: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 727, a Bill to Provide for the Protection and Development of the Lower Colorado River Basin, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation Colorado River Basin: Hearings, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 727, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2007 |
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