Part V DOCUMENTS RELATING TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BOULDER CANYON PROJECT ACT RATIFICATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT BY SIX Appendix STATES No. Page 501 State ratifications of the compact as a six-State agreement (cita- A229 THE CALIFORNIA LIMITATION ACT 502 503 The California "Limitation Act": Act approved March 4, 1929 PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT Proclamation of President Herbert Hoover of June 25, 1929 (46 A231 A233 A227 Appendix 501 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE PROJECT ACT: STATE RATIFICATIONS OF THE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT AS A SIX-STATE AGREEMENT (Citations only) Appendix No. 228. California: Act approved March 4, 1929 (Stats. 1929, p. 37). Appendix No. 222. Colorado: Act approved February 26, 1925 (Laws, 1925, p. 525). Appendix No. 223. Nevada: Act approved March 18, 1925 (Stats. 1925, p. 134). Appendix No. 224. New Mexico: Act approved March 17, 1925 (Laws, 1925, p. 116). Appendix No. 229. Utah: Act approved March 6, 1929 (Laws, 1929, p. 25). Appendix No. 226. Wyoming: Act approved February 25, 1925 (Laws, 1925, p. 85). A229 Appendix 502 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE PROJECT ACT: THE CALIFORNIA "LIMITATION ACT" (Act of March 4, 1929; Ch. 16, 48th Sess.; Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, 1929, pp. 38-39) CHAPTER 16 An act to limit the use by California of the waters of the Colorado river in compliance with the act of congress known as the "Boulder canyon project act," approved December 21, 1928, in the event the Colorado river compact is not approved by all of the states signatory thereto (Approved by the Governor March 4, 1929; in effect August 14, 1929) The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. In the event the Colorado river compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, and approved by and set out at length in that certain act entitled "An act to ratify and approve the Colorado river compact, signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, to repeal conflicting acts and resolutions and directing that notice be given by the governor of such ratifications and approval," approved January 10, 1929 (statutes 1929, chapter 1), is not approved within six months from the date of the passage of that certain act of the congress of the United States known as the "Boulder canyon project act," approved December 21, 1928, by the legislatures of each of the seven states signatory thereto, as provided by article eleven of the said Colorado river compact, then when six of said states, including California, shall have ratified and approved said compact, and shall have consented to waive the provisions of the first paragraph of article eleven of said compact which makes the same binding and obligatory when approved by each of the states signatory thereto, and shall have approved said compact without conditions save that of such six states approval and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, as provided by the said "Boulder canyon project act," the State of California as of the date of such proclamation agrees irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming as an express covenant |