Volume 52
Public Law 75–820
Requesting the President of the United States to proclaim the week of May 31, 1939, National Flood Prevention Week.
Approved June 29, 1938
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Requesting the President of the United States to proclaim the week of May 31, 1939, National Flood Prevention Week.
Whereas the present Administration has been first to recognize that disastrous floods are calamities requiring national action and cooperation to prevent their recurrence in the future: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Honorable Franklin
President requested to proclaim week of May 31, 1939.
D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, be, and he is hereby requested to proclaim the week of May 31, 1939, National Flood Prevention Week in the United States of America, and to ask the cooperation, interest, and aid of all the people in the work of flood prevention.
Approved, June 29, 1938.