Volume 49 · 1463
Public Law 74–499
Providing for the examination of the Nueces River and its tributaries in the State of Texas for flood-control purposes.
Approved June 4, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
Providing for the examination of the Nueces River and its tributaries in the State of Texas for flood-control purposes.
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 hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination of the Nueces River in the State of Texas, with a viewto the control of its floods, in acccordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for control of the floods
Vol. 30. 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, June 4, 1936.