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Public Law 75–338

Authorizing a modification in the existing project for the improvement of the Illinois Waterway, Illinois, and the abandonment of a portion of the Calumet River.

Approved June 14, 1937

Statutory text

JOINT RESOLUTION

Authorizing a modification in the existing project for the improvement of the Illinois Waterway, Illinois, and the abandonment of a portion of the Calumet River.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the existing project for the improvement of the Illinois Waterway, Illinois, is

Project for improvement modified.

hereby modified in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Numbered 19, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session.

Sec. 2.

That the portion of the Calumet River, in the city of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois, lying between the intersections of this river with the two lines described below, be declared by Congress to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States:

Description.

Beginning at a point on the south line of the north half of section 36, township 37 north, range 14 east, of the third principal meridian, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three and seven-hundredths feet west of the east line of said section; thence northwesterly on a straight line to a point three thousand two hundred and eighty feet west of the east line and seven hundred and eighty-five feet south of the north line of said section; and

Beginning at a point five hundred and eighty-five feet east of the west line and seven hundred and thirty-two feet north of the south line of section 31, township 37 north, range 15 east, of the third principal meridian ; thence north forty-six degrees and thirty minutes east along a straight line to the easterly water’s edge of said river.

Sec. 3.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, June 14, 1937.

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