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Volume 49

Public Law 74–330

To provide for a preliminary examination of Big Mulberry Creek, in Crawford County, Arkansas, from the point where it empties into the Arkansas River up a distance of eight miles, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and repairing the banks, and the cost of such improvement, with a view to the controlling of floods.

Approved May 6, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for a preliminary examination of Big Mulberry Creek, in Crawford County, Arkansas, from the point where it empties into the Arkansas River up a distance of eight miles, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and repairing the banks, and the cost of such improvement, with a view to the controlling of 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 Big Mulberry Creek, in Crawford Comity, Arkansas, from the point where it empties into the Arkansas River up a distance of eight miles, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and repairing the banks, and the cost of such improvement, with a view to the control of floods, in accordance with the provision of section 3 of an Act

Vol. 39. p. 950.

U. S. C., p. 1487.

entitled “An Act to provide for the control of floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 1917, and the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for the examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.

Approved, May 6, 1936.

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