Volume 49
Public Law 74–303
To provide a preliminary examination of the Potomac River and its tributaries, with a view to the control of its floods.
Approved May 5, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide a preliminary examination of the Potomac River and its tributaries, with a view to the control of its 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 Potomac River and its tributaries, with a view to the control of its 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 control of floods 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 5, 1936.