Volume 49
Public Law 74–338
To authorize a preliminary examination of various creeks in the State of California with a view to the control of their floods.
Approved May 6, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize a preliminary examination of various creeks in the State of California 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
California.
Survey directed of various creeks in, for controlling floods.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of Canal Creek, Fahrens Creek, Black Rascal Creek, Bear Creek, Miles Creek, Owens Creek, Duck Creek, Mariposa Creek, Little Deadmans Creek, Big Deadmans Creek, and Burns Creek in the State of California, with a view to the control of their floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for control of floods
Vol. 39. p. 950.
U. S. C., p. 1487.
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, May 6, 1936.