pact executed on March 18, 1938, by commissioners representing the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas and consented to by the Congress of the United States of America by Act of May 31, 1939 (53 Stat. 785); The term "Treaty with the United Mexican States" shall mean that certain treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed at Washington, District of Columbia, February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado River and other rivers, as amended and supplemented by the protocol dated November 14, 1944, and the understandings recited in the Senate resolution of April 18, 1945, advising and consenting to ratification thereof. COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT WASHINGTON The Columbia Basin project (Grand Coulee Dam project) was authorized by section 2 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1039), and in accordance with the provisions of that act the President on January 29, 1936, designated the Secretary of the Interior as his agent to construct, operate, and maintain the project. It was reauthorized as a project subject to the Reclamation Act of 1939 by the act of March 10, 1943 (57 Stat. 14). Generating units R-7, R-8, and R-9 for Grand Coulee power plant were authorized by the Secretary on February 8, 1949, and his report thereon was transmitted to the President and the Congress on January 5, 1949. From: CHIEF ENGINEER. To: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, Denver, Colorado, January 7, 1932. Commissioner, Washington, D. C. Subject: Report on proposed Columbia Basin project, Washington. 1. Transmitted herewith is a report prepared in the Denver office on the proposed Columbia Basin project. 2. The report shows that the investment in the dam and power plant will be repaid under the conditions assumed in 50 years with interest at 4 per cent and leave a substantial surplus for repaying about one half of the investment without interest ultimately required in the entire irrigation development. With this surplus power revenue available for liquidating a portion of the investment in the irrigation development, and on the basis of the estimates and conclusions reached in the report, I believe the Columbia Basin project is physically and financially feasible. With the completion of the power development the irrigation development may proceed at such time and in units of such size as economic conditions may justify. 3. The postponement of the irrigation development will in crease, rather than detract, from the economic feasibility of the power development except as such irrigation development affects the power market. (Signed) R. F. WALTER, Chief Engineer. RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT OF 1935 [Extract from] An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (Act of August 30, 1935, 49 Stat. 1028, 1039-1040, Public Law 409, 74th Cong., 1st sess.) ** SEC. 2. That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands and Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as "Parker Dam" on the Colorado River and "Grand Coulee Dam" on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified, and the President, acting through such agents as he may designate, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain dams, structures, canals, and incidental works necessary to such projects, and in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts including contracts amendatory of or supplemental to those hereby validated and ratified. The construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam in and across the Colorado River at or near Head Gate Rock, Arizona, and structures, canals, and incidental works necessary in connection therewith is hereby authorized, and none of the waters, conserved, used, or appropriated under the works hereby authorized shall be charged against the waters allocated to the upper basin by the Colorado River compact; nor shall any priority be established against such upper basin by reason of such conservation, use, or appropriation; nor shall said dam, structures, canals, and works, or any of them, be used as the basis of making any such charge, or establishing any such priority or right, and all contracts between the United States and the users of said water from or by means of said instrumentalities shall provide against the making of any such charge or claim or the establishment of any priority right or claim to any part or share of the water of the Colorado River allocated to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River compact, and all use of said instrumentalities shall be in compliance with the conditions and provisions of said Colorado River compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act. THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 29, 1936. Hon. HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Section 2 of the Act of Congress of August 30, 1935 (Public No. 400, 74th Congress) provides as follows: SEC. 2. That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands and Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as "Parker Dam" on the Colorado River and "Grand Coulee Dam" on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified, and the President, acting through such agents as he may designate, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain dams, structures, canals, and incidental works necessary to such projects, and in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts including contracts amendatory of or supplemental to those hereby validated and ratified. The construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam in and across the Colorado River at or near Head Gate Rock, Arizona, and structures, canals, and incidental works necessary in connection therewith is hereby authorized, and none of the waters, conserved, used, or appropriated under the works hereby authorized shall be charged against the water allocated to the upper basin by the Colorado River compact, nor shall any priority be established against such upper basin by reason of such conservation, use, or appropriation; nor shall said dam, structures, canals, and works, or any of them, be used as the basis of making any such charge, or establishing any such priority or right, and all contracts between the United States and the users of said water from or by means of said instrumentalities shall provide against the making of any such charge or claim or the establishment of any priority right or claim to any part or share of the water of the Colorado River allocated to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River compact, and all use of said instrumentalities shall be in compliance with the conditions and provisions of said Colorado River compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act. Under the foregoing provision of law, you, through the Bureau of Reclamation under your jurisdiction, are hereby designated as my agent (1) to construct, operate and maintain dams, structures, canals and incidental works necessary to said Parker Dam and Grand Coulee Dam projects, and (2) in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts including contracts amendatory of or supplemental to those validated under the above-quoted provision of law. Such contracts may be made by you, by the Acting Secretary, by the First Assistant Secretary, by the Under Secretary, or by the Assistant Secretary as you may direct, or by such officers of the Bureau of Reclamation as you may designate, and any such contracts made between August 30, 1935, and the date hereof are hereby ratified and any construction work done by or under the Bureau of Reclamation during said period upon said dams, structures, canals and incidental works is hereby adopted. Sincerely yours, (Signed) FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President. PREVENTION LAND SPECULATION, COLUMBIA An act to prevent speculation in lands in the Columbia Basin prospectively irrigable by reason of the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project and to aid actual settlers in securing such lands at the fair appraised value thereof as arid land, and for other purposes. (Act of May 27, 1937, 50 Stat. 208, Public Law 117, 75th Cong., 1st sess.) That no part of the funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allotted for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project (authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 30, 1935, 49 Stat. 1028, 1039, entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes," and by the Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1757, 1784, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes") or for the reclamation of land in connection with said project shall be expended in the construction of any irrigation feature of said project, exclusive of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works now under construction, until after the following provisions have been complied with: (a) The privately owned lands proposed to be irrigated under said project (including county lands and such State lands as the State may desire and be able to subscribe for irrigation under said project and to subject to the terms of this Act) shall have been impartially appraised in a manner and to the extent prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the determination of their value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the said irrigation works and without increment on account of the prospect of the construction of the said project. (b) A contract or contracts shall have been made with an irrigation or reclamation district or districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts of that part of the cost of construction of the project allocated by the Secretary of the Interior as the part thereof properly chargeable to irrigation, the said cost of construction to be repaid within such term or terms of years as the Secretary shall find to be necessary, not |