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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 47, 48 -APR. 2, 6, 1949 and consent of the Senate: Provided, That a person who has within ten years been on active duty as a commissioned officer in a Regular component of the armed services shall not be eligible for appointment as Under Secretary of Defense. The Under Secretary shall perform such duties, and shall exercise such powers, as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe. The Under Secretary shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Secretary of Defense during his absence or disability." SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 301 of such Act (5 U. S. C., sec. 171b), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The Under Secretary of Defense shall receive the compensation prescribed by law for Under Secretaries of executive departments." Approved April 2, 1949. [CHAPTER 48] AN ACT To grant the consent of the United States to the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the Congress is hereby given to the compact, signed (after negotia- tions in which a representative of the United States, duly appointed by the President, participated and upon which he has reported to the Congress) by the Commissioners for the States of Arizona, Colo- rado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, on October 11, 1948, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and thereafter ratified by the legislatures of each of the States aforesaid, which said compact reads as follows: "UPPER Co RiE BIN COLORADO MPACT "The State of Arizona, the State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Utah and the State of Wyoming, acting through their Commissioners, "Charles A. Carson for the State of Arizona, "Clifford H. Stone for the State of Colorado, "Fred E. Wilson for the State of New Mexico, "Edward H. Watson for the State of Utah and "L. C. Bishop for the State of Wyoming, after negotiations participated in by Harry W. Bashore, appointed by the President as the representative of the United States of America, have agreed, subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, to determine the rights and obligations of each signatory State respect- ing the uses and deliveries of the water of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River, as follows: ARTICLE I "(a) The major purposes of this Compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System, the use of which was apportioned in perpetuity to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact; to establish the obligations of each State of the Upper Division with respect to the deliveries of water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado River Compact; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Upper Basin, the storage of water and to protect life and property from floods. "(b) It is recognized that the Colorado River Compact is in full force and effect and all of the provisions hereof are subject thereto. 31 Restriction. 61 Stat. 507. 6 U.S. C., Supp. II, § 171b. Post,p. 585 . April 6, 1949 [S. 790] [Public Law 37j Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Consent of Con- gress.

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