Email Record: Lavaca and Navidad Rivers, Tex. Letter from the Secretary of War. Transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated May 25, 1939, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on reexamination of Lavaca and Navidad Rivers, Tex., requested by resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted October 27, 1938.