HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 012551F - Legislature Of Texas Requested To Ratity And Adopt The Canadian River Compact - 01_25_1951 A RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the legally constituted Inter-State Compact Commission
for Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma,'-on December 6, 1950, at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, consummated and signed a compact providing for the division of
the waters of the Canadian River and its tributaries between the said three
State s, and
Co"�ieS WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Lubbock, Texas, has
1ua� s examined said Compact and believes the same to be a fair and equitable division
�p I of the said waters between the States of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma,
and
WHEREAS, the said Compact is not effective unless and until adopted
by the Legislatures of the States of Texas, New .Mexico, and Oklahoma, and
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock has a population of 71, 390, according
to the last preceding federal census, and is one of the Texas cities to be affec-
ted by such legislation, NOW THEREFORE, i
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
LUBBOCK.* TEXAS:
r� THAT the Legislature of Texas be, and the same is hereby requested
to ratify and adopt the Canadian River Compact as agreed upon and signed by the "
Inter-State Compact Commission for Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma at II
Santa Fe, New Mexico, on December '6, 1950.
On motion of Commissioner Ht1fsL"�dler- seconded by
Commissioner , the foregoing Resolution was unanimously
I, passed b an affirmative vote of all members of the City Commission voting "aye"., '
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namely: Commissioner Morris, Commissioner Thomas, Commissioner Hufsted-ii
ler, Commissioner Davis, and Mayor-Commissioner Whiteside, this 25th day II
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of January, 1951.
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Clarence K. Whiteside, 1&wkor
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ATTEST:
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L venia Lowel City Secretary