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 74 TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 781, 791. AUGUST 27, 28,1935 . measures for the maximum ultimate recovery of oil and gas. Said Commission shall organize and adopt suitable rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. "No action shall be taken by the Commission except : (1) by the affirmative votes of the majority of the whole number of the com- pacting States, represented at any meeting, and (2) by a concurring vote of a majority in interest of the compacting States at said meet- ing, such interest to be determined as follows : Such vote of each State shall be in the decimal proportion fixed by the ratio of its daily aver- age production during the preceding calendar half-year to the daily average production of the compacting States during said period . u ARtiCLE VII "No State by joining herein shall become financially obligated to any other State, nor shall the breach of the terms hereof by any State subject such State to financial responsibility to the other States joining herein. 44 ARTICLE VIII j " This compact shall expire September 1, 1937 . But any State oining herein may, upon sixty days' notice, withdraw herefrom . " The representatives of the signatory States have signed this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States. "Th is com pact s hall b ecome effect ive wh en rat ified and ap proved as provided in Article I . Any oil- produ cing State may beco me a party hereto by affixing its signature to a counterpart to be similarly deposited, certified and ratified . " Done in the City of Dallas, Texas, this 16th day of February, 1935." SEC. 2 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal the provisions of section 1 is hereby expressly reserved . Approved, August 27, 1935 . [CHAPTER 791 .1 AN ACT Relative to the retirement of certain officers and employees . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all officers and employees of the United States Government or of the govern- ment of the District of Columbia who had reached the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service on or before July 1, 1932, or during the month of July 1932, and who were continued in active service for a period of less than thirty-one days after June 30, 1932, shall be regarded as having been retired and entitled to annuity beginning with the day following the date of sep aratio n from activ e serv ice, i nstead of Au gust 1, 1932, and the United States Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized and directed to make payments accordingly from the civil-service retirement and disability fund to those persons entitled and who make applic ation theref or. Approved, August 28, 1935. Powers reserved. 941 August 28, 1935. [s. 2364.1 [ Public, No.353.] Retirement of cer- tain officers and em- ployees who reached retirement age before Augu st 1, 1932.