Volume 49 · 1256
Public Law 74–267
To authorize an investigation of the means of increasing capacity of the Panama Canal for future needs of interoceanic shipping, and for other purposes.
Approved May 1, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize an investigation of the means of increasing capacity of the Panama Canal for future needs of interoceanic shipping, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Governor of the Panama Canal is hereby authorized and directed to investigate the means of increasing the capacity of the Panama Canal for future needs of interoceanic shipping, and to prepare designs and approximate estimates of cost of such additional locks or other structures and facilities as are needed for the purpose, and to make progress reports from time to time of the results thereof.
Approved, May 1, 1936.