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PUBLIC LAW 434~MAR. 21, 1956

Public Law 434 March 21, 1956 [H. R. 2552]

Great Lakes connecting channels. Modification.

Appropriation.

McGirts C r e e k, Fla.

Be it enacted by the />lenate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed^ That the project for improvement of the Great Lakes connecting channels above Lake Erie is hereby modified to provide controlling depths of not less than twenty-seven feet, the work to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers ill accordance with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers, in the report submitted in Senate Document Numbered 71, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session. SEC. 2. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved March 21, 1956.

3 USC 15.

Electoral v o t e s, count.

CHAPTER 91

AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination and survey < f McGirts Creek, Phulda, » for tiood control.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in, Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is hereby authorized and directed to make a preliminary examination and survey with a view to determining the advisability of making improvements for flood control in McGirts Creek, a tributary of Saint Johns River, in Florida. Approved March 24, 1956.

Public Law 436 March 24, 1956 [H. J. R e s. 517]

CHAPTER 90

AN ACT To authorize the modification of the existing project for the Great Lakes connectiiifi^ channels above Lake Erie.

Public Law 435 March 24, 1956 [H. R. 5556]

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CHAPTER 92

JOINT RESOLUTION Changing the date for the counting of tlae elect(»ral votes in 1!).~>7.

Whereas January 6, 1957, is a Sunday; and AVhereas Public Law 771, Eightieth Congress (62 Stat. 672, 675), provides that "•(\)ugress shall be in session on the sixth day of .laniuuy succeeding every meeting of the (Presidential) electors" for the pur))ose of counting the electoral votes: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and lionise of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the two Houses of Congress shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Monday, the seventh day of January 1957, at one o'clock post meridian, pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer; that two tellers shall be previously appointed by the President of the Senate on the part of the Senate and two by the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon

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