tary of the Interior may from time to time prescribe in his discretion, and his determination thereof shall be final; provided further, that the United States of America reserves the right to make similar arrangements with users in other states without distinction in priority, and to determine the correlative relations between the said City and/or said County and such users resulting therefrom.

SECTION 10. In no event shall the amounts allotted in this agreement to The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and/or the City of Los Angeles be increased on account of inclusion of a supply for both said District and said City, and either or both may use said apportionments as may be agreed by and between said District and said City.

SECTION 11. In no event shall the amounts allotted in this agreement to the City of San Diego and/or to the County of San Diego be increased on account of inclusion of a supply for both said City and said County, and either or both may use said apportionments as may be agreed by and between said City and said County.

SECTION 12. The priorities hereinbefore set forth shall be in no wise affected by the relative dates of water contracts executed by the Secretary of the Interior with the various parties.

The Secretary reserves the right to, and the District agrees that he may, contract with any of the allottees above named in accordance with the above stated recommendation, or, in the event that such recommendation as to Palo Verde Irrigation District is superseded by an agreement between all the above allottees or by a final judicial determination, to contract with the Palo Verde Irrigation District in accordance with such agreement or determination; provided, that priorities numbered fourth and fifth shall not thereby be disturbed.

Said water shall be delivered continuously as far as reasonable diligence will permit, but the United States shall not be obligated to deliver water to the District when for any reason such delivery would interfere with the use of Hoover Dam and Boulder Canyon Reservoir for river regulation, improvement of navigation, flood control, and/or satisfaction of perfected rights, in or to the waters of the Colorado River, or its tributaries, in pursuance of Article VIII of the Colorado River Compact, and this contract is made upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the right of the District to waters of the Colorado River, or its tributaries, is subject to and controlled by the Colorado River Compact. The United States reserves the right to discontinue or temporarily reduce the amount of water to be delivered for the purpose of investigation, inspection, maintenance, repairs, replacement or installation of equipment and/or machinery at Hoover Dam, but so far as feasible the United States will give the District reasonable notice in advance of such temporary discontinuance or reduction. The United States, its officers, agents and employees shall not be liable for damages when, for any reason whatsoever, suspensions or reductions in delivery of water occur. This contract is for permanent service, but is made subject to the express covenant and condition that in the event water for the District is not taken or diverted by the District hereunder for District purposes within a period of ten (10) years from and after completion of Hoover Dam as announced by the Secretary, it may in such event, upon the written order of the Secretary, and after hearing become null and void and of no effect".

CONTRACT OF APRIL 24, 1930, EFFECTIVE EXCEPT AS MODIFIED

7. Except as expressly modified hereby the aforesaid contract of date April 24, 1930, shall remain in full force and effect.

MEMBER OF CONGRESS CLAUSE

8. No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this suplementary contract to be executed the day and year first above written.

Excerpt from Minutes of Adjourned Regular Meeting of the Board of Di rectors of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, held April

4, 1932.

MOVED BY DIRECTOR THOMAS, that that certain order made on motion of Direc tor Thomas, approving an amendment to the contract between The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and The United States of America, dated April 24, 1930, and authorizing the execution of the amendatory contract, said motion appearing in paragraph 2136 of the Minutes of February 19, 1932, BE, And the same IS, HEREBY RESCINDED; and further, that the contract presented herewith between The United States of America and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California providing for the amendment of that certain contract between the said parties dated April 24, 1930, Be, and the samE IS, HEREBY APPROVED: and that the Chairman of the Board of Directors be authorized and directed to execute the said contract for and on behalf of the District; and that the Secretary of the Board of Directors be authorized and directed to attest the signature of the Chairman and attach to the said contract the corporate seal of the District.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of an excerpt from the Minutes of the Adjourned Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, held April 4, 1932, as said excerpt appears on page 506, item 2189, of Volume 2, of the Minutes of said Board of Directors.

S. H. FINLEY,

Secretary of the Board of Directors of
The Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California.

[CORPORATE SEAL]

[ITEM 13]

BOULDER CANYON PROJECT

CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DIVERSION DAM, MAIN CANAL AND APPURTENANT STRUCTURES AND FOR DELIVERY OF WATER

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ARTICLE 1. THIS CONTRACT, made this 1st day of Dec., nineteen hundred thirty-two, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and acts amendatory thereof or suplementary thereto, all of which acts are commonly known and referred to as the Reclamation Law, and particularly pursuant to the Act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat., 1075), designated the Boulder Canyon Project Act between THE UNITED States of AMERICA, hereinafter referred to as the United States, acting for this purpose by Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter styled the Secretary, and IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT, an irrigation district created, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, with its principal place of business at El Centro, Imperial County, California, hereinafter referred to as the District;

WITNESSETH:

EXPLANATORY RECITALS

ARTICLE 2. WHEREAS, for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, the Secretary, subject to the terms of the Colorado River Compact, is authorized to construct, operate and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder 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 connecting the Laguna Dam, or other suitable diversion dam, which the Secretary is also authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, the expenditures for said main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable as provided in the reclamation law; and

ARTICLE 3. WHEREAS, after full consideration of the advantages of both the Black Canyon and Boulder Canyon dam sites, the Secretary has determined upon Black Canyon as the site of the aforesaid dam, hereinafter styled the Hover Dam, creating thereby a reservoir to be hereinafter styled the Boulder Canyon Reservoir; and

ARTICLE 4. WHEREAS, there are included within the boundaries of the District areas of private and public lands, and additional private and public lands will by appropriate proceedings be included within the District, and the District is desirous of entering into a contract for the construction of a suitable diversion dam and main canal and appurtenant structures, hereinafter respectively styled Imperial Dam and All-American Canal, located entirely within the United States connecting with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys, and for