Volume 49
Public Law 74–401
To provide for a preliminary examination of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, with a view to controlling their floods and regulating, conserving, and utilizing the waters thereof, and for other purposes.
Approved May 15, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for a preliminary examination of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, with a view to controlling their floods and regulating, conserving, and utilizing the waters thereof, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Sabine and Neches Rivers.
Survey directed for controlling floods of.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, and their tributaries, with a view to controlling their floods and regulating, conserving, and utilizing the waters thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to
Vol. 39, p. 950.
U. S. C., p. 1487.
provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 191211 So in original., the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
Approved, May 15, 1936.