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 TREATIES September 15, 98 Convention between the United States of America and Canada respecting T..No.96] emergency regulation of level of Rainy Lake and of other boundary waters in the Rainy Lake watershed. Signed at Ottawa September 15, 1938; ratificationadvised by the Senate of the United States August SO, 1940; ratifiedby the Presidentof the United States September 10, 1940; ratified by His Majesty in respect of Canada May 19, 1939; ratifi- cations exchanged at Ottawa October 3, 1940; proclaimed by the Presidentof the United States October 18, 1940. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Pramble. WHEBEAs, a convention between the United States of America and Canada, providing for emergency regulation of the level of Rainy Lake and of other boundary waters in the Rainy Lake water- shed, as recommended by the International Joint Commission estab- lished pursuant to the provisions of the treaty signed at Washing- 6Stat.is48. ton on January 11, 1909, relating to questions arising between the United States of America and Canada, was signed by their respec- tive plenipotentiaries at Ottawa on the 15th day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, the original of which con- vention is word for word as follows: Te. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of Canada, Desirous of providing for emergency regulation of the level of Rainy Lake and of the level of other boundary waters in the Rainy Lake watershed, in such a way as to protect the interests of the inhabitants of the United States of America and Canada, and, Accepting as a basis of agreement the following recommendations made by the International Joint Commission in its Final Report dated May 1, 1934, on the Reference concerning Rainy Lake and the boundary waters flowing into and from that lake, and partic- ularly in answer to Question 2 of that Reference, namely, that it would be wise and in the public interest that the Com- mission be clothed with power to determine when unusual or extraordinary conditions exist throughout the watershed, whether by reason of high or low water, and that it be em- powered to adopt such measures of control as to it may seem proper with respect to existing dams at Kettle Falls and Inter- national Falls, as well as any future dams or works, in the event of the Commission determining that such unusual or extraor- dinary conditions exist. 1800 [54 STAT.

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