Volume 49
Public Law 74–819
To authorize a preliminary examination of the Penobscot River, Maine, and its tributaries, with a view to the control of their floods.
Approved June 25, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize a preliminary examination of the Penobscot River, Maine, and its tributaries, with a view to the control of their floods.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Penobscot River, Maine.
Survey of, and tributaries, directed for controlling floods.
of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Penobscot River and its tributaries in the State of Maine, with a view to the control of their floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An
Vol. 39, p. 950.
U. S. C., p. 1474.
Act to provide for 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, June 25, 1936.