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Volume 49

Public Law 74–339

To authorize a preliminary examination of Passaic River, New Jersey, with a view to the control of its floods.

Approved May 6, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize a preliminary examination of Passaic River, New Jersey, 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

Passaic River, N. J.

Survey directed for controlling floods of.

of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Passaic River in the State of New Jersey, with a view to the control of floods, in accordance 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 to 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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