Chapter 2.
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CHAP. 2.— An act making an appropriation for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi River.Jan. 19, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation, continuing improvement of Mississippi River. That the sum of one million dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement of the Mississippi River, which said sum shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in accordance with the plans, specifications, estimates, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission created by an act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment of a Mississippi River Commission for the improvement of said river from the Head of the Passes, near its mouth, to its headwaters”, approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: *Provided*, That the money hereby appropriated shall*Proviso*. be used solely for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and no part thereof shall be expended with the view to the improvement of private property.
Approved, January 19, 1884.