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GENERAL LAWS. 693
States the necessity of appropriating such funds and enacting
such legislation as will adequately provide for the effective carrying
out of the provisions of the National Defense Act of nineteen
hundred and twenty and also the recommendations of the
Chief of Staff of the army of the United States herein before
set forth.
SEC. 2. Suitable copies of this resolution shall be sent by
the Secretary of State, to the President of the United States,
the presiding officers of both branches of Congress, to the
Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State, and
to the members of the congressional committee on appropriaations
and on military affairs.
Approved March 16, 1925.
RELATING TO PECOS RIVER COMPACT.
S. J. R. No. 20.]
Whereas, by authority of Chapter 133 of the General Laws of
the State of Texas, passed the the Thirty-eighth Legislature at
the Regular Session thereof, the Honorable R. E. Thomason
was appointed by the Governor of the State of Texas to represent
the State of Texas in a conference with representatives of
the United States, and of the State of New Mexico, with a view
to negotiating an agreement concerning the storage, division and
use of the waters of the Pecos River in New Mexico and Texas;
and
Whereas, the said commissioner in conference with the Honorable
C. T. Pease representing the United States, and the Honorable
Richard H. Harna, representing the State of New Mexico,
agreed upon and signed a compact with reference thereto and
transmitted the same to the Governor of Texas; and
Whereas, the Goveinor of Texas has submitted said compact
to the Legislature for appropriate action, which compact is in
words and figures substantially as follows, to-wit:
PECOS RIVER COMPACT.
The State of Texas and the State of New Mexico having resolved
to enter into a compact, under the Acts of their respective
Legislatures, have, through their Governors, appointed as
their commissioner: R. E. Thomason for the State of Texas
and Richard H. Hanna for the State of New Mexico, who, after
negotiations participated in by C. T. Pease, appointed by Secretary
of the Interior of the United States, as a representative
of the Bureau of Reclamation, have agreed upon the following
article:
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1923-1925 [Volume 22], book, 1925; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth15500/m1/1621/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .