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Volume 49 · 1938

Public Law 74–820

To authorize a preliminary examination of the Androscoggin River, in Maine and New Hampshire, 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 Androscoggin River, in Maine and New Hampshire, 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 American in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Androscoggin River and its tributaries in the States of Maine and New Hampshire, with a view to the control of their floods, in accordance with the provisions of section

Vol. 39, p. 950.

U. S. C., p. 1474.

3 of an Act entitled “An 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.

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