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Public Law 74–126
Authorizing a preliminary examination of the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers and their tributaries; to include both drainage basins and their outlets, in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, with a view to the controlling of floods.
Approved March 6, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing a preliminary examination of the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers and their tributaries; to include both drainage basins and their outlets, in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, with a view to the controlling of floods.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers and their tributaries; to include both drainage basins and their outlets, in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, with a view to the control
Vol. 39, p. 950.
U. S. C., p. 1487.
of floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for control of the floods of the Mississippi River, and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
Approved, March 6, 1936.