Volume 44
Public Law 69–704
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers for consultation in connection with the construction of dams for irrigation purposes.
Approved June 28, 1926
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers for consultation in connection with the construction of dams for irrigation purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his judgment and discretion, to employ for consultation on the plans and specifications for any darn proposed to be constructed by the Department of the Interior, the services of not more than three experienced engineers, determined by him to have the necessary qualifications, without regard to civil-service requirements and at rates of compensation to be fixed by him for each, respectively, but not to exceed $50 per day and necessary traveling expenses, including a per diem of not to exceed $6 in lieu of subsistence for each engineer respectively, not exceeding in the. aggregate more than $3,500 for any engineer so employed for
Proviso.
Retired Army officers eligible.
the time employed and actually engaged upon such work: Provided, That retired officers of the Army may be employed by the Secretary of the Interior as consulting engineers in accordance with the pro-visions of this Act.
Approved, June 28, 1926.