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Volume 49 · 1260

Public Law 74–323

To provide a preliminary examination of the Yakima River and its tributaries and the Walla Walla River and its tributaries in the State of Washington, with a view to the control of their floods.

Approved May 6, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide a preliminary examination of the Yakima River and its tributaries and the Walla Walla River and its tributaries in the State of Washington, with a view to the control of their floods.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Yakima River and its tributaries and the Walia Walla River and its tributaries in the State of Washington, with a view to the control of their floods, in accordance

Vol. 39, p. 950.

U. S. C., p. 1487.

with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the 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 11So in original. be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.

Approved, May 6, 1936.

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