Volume 49 · 442
Public Law 74–353
To provide a preliminary examination of the Purgatoire (Picketwire) and Apishapa Rivers, in the State of Colorado, with a view to the control of their floods and the conservation of their waters.
Approved July 1, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide a preliminary examination of the Purgatoire (Picketwire) and Apishapa Rivers, in the State of Colorado, with a view to the control of their floods and the conservation of their waters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 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 Purgatoire (Picketwire) River, west of the city of Trinidad, Colorado, and the Apishapa River, west of the town of Aguilar, all in the county of Las Animas, in the State of Colorado, with a view to the control of the floods and the conservation of the waters of said rivers, in accordance with
Vol. 39, p. 950; U. S. C., p. 1487.
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, July 1, 1935.