The General Assembly hereby approves the compact, designated as the Colorado River Compact, signed at the City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, on the 24th day of November, A.D. 1922, by Delph E. Carpenter, as the Commissioner for the State of Colorado, under authority of and in conformity with the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, approved April 2, 1921, entitled An Act providing for the appointment of a Commissioner on behalf of the State of Colorado to negotiate a compact and agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and between said States and the United States respecting the use and distribution of the waters of the Colorado River and the rights of said States and the United States thereto, and making an appropriation therefor., the same being Chapter 246 of the Session Laws of Colorado, 1921, and signed by the Commissioners for the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, under legislative authority, and signed by the Commissioners for said seven States and approved by the Representative of the United States of America under authority and in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved August 19, 1921, entitled An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes., which said compact is as follows:
Colorado River Compact
The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, having resolved to enter into a compact, under the Act of the Congress of the United States of America approved August 19, 1921, (42 Statutes at Large, page 171), and the Acts of the legislatures of the said states, have through their Governors appointed as their commissioners:
W. S. Norviel, for the State of Arizona;
W. F. McClure, for the State of California;
Delph E. Carpenter, for the State of Colorado;
J. G. Scrugham, for the State of Nevada;
Stephen B. Davis, Jr., for the State of New Mexico;
R. E. Caldwell, for the State of Utah;
Frank C. Emerson, for the State of Wyoming;
who, after negotiations participated in by Herbert Hoover appointed by the President as the representative of the United States of America, have agreed upon the following articles: