Email Record: Houston Ship Channel, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of War. Transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated March 4, 1939, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on reexamination of Houston Ship Channel, Tex., with a view to determining advisability of establishing suitable depths and widths for navigation in the Old Channel of Buffalo Bayou behind Brady Island, requested by resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted August 25, 1938.