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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · March 1, 1917 · Public Law 574

Public Law 574. to provide for control of floodsVol. 39. p. 950.[U

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(/us/pl/74/573).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryCalifornia.Survey directed of various creeks in, for controlling floods. of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of Canal Creek, Fahrens Creek, Black Rascal Creek, Bear Creek, Miles Creek, Owens Creek, Duck Creek, Mariposa Creek, Little Deadmans Creek, Big Deadmans Creek, and Burns Creek in the State of California, with a view to the control of their floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for control of floodsVol. 39. p. 950.[U.
S. C., p. 1487](/us/usc/1487). 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, May 6, 1936. To authorize a preliminary examination of Passaic River, New Jersey, with a view to the control of its floods. 1936-05-06 339 Chapter 49 Stat. 1265 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 339.] AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Passaic River, New Jersey, with a view to the control of its floods. May 6, 1936.[[H. R. 11806](/us/bill/74/hr/11806).][[Public, No. 574](/us/pl/74/574).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryPassaic River, N. J.Survey directed for controlling floods of. of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Passaic River in the State of New Jersey, with a view to the control of floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the 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, May 6, 1936. To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress. 1936-05-06 49 Stat. 1266 340 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public 1266 [CHAPTER 340.] JOINT RESOLUTION To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress. May 6, 1936.[[H. J. Res. 215](/us/bill/74/hjres/215).][[Pub.
Res., No. 87](/us/bill/74/pubres/87).] Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Indian lands, timber sales.Terms of existing contracts modified.Vol. 47, p. 1568; Vol. 48, pp. 311, 397.[U. S. C., p. 1028](/us/usc/1028). That the last proviso in that Public Act Numbered 435 of the Seventy-second Congress entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to modify the terms of existing contracts for the sale of timber on Indian land when it is in the interest of the Indians so to do”, as amended, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
“*And provided further*, Duration of authority.Approval required.That the authority granted herein shall terminate on the 4th day of September 1936: *Provided further*, That all such modified contracts shall have the approval of the tribal general council for tribal lands and of the allottee for allotted lands”. Approved, May 6, 1936. To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees. 1936-05-07 49 Stat. 1266 370 Chapter 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 370.] AN ACT To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees. May 7, 1936.[[H. R. 10193](/us/bill/74/hr/10193).][
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