Chapter 377. Amending the Act providing for the appointment of a Mississippi River Commission, and so forth, approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine
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CHAP. 377.— An Act Amending the Act providing for the appointment of a Mississippi River Commission, and so forth, approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. February 18, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi River Commission. Mississippi River Commission. That 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 its793 mouth to its head waters.” approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, he amended by adding thereto the following section:
“Sec. 8. That the headquarters and general offices of said commissionOffices of commission. shall be located at some city or town on the Mississippi River, to he designated by the Secretary of War, and the meetings of the commission—meetings except such as are. held on Government boats during the time of the semiannual inspection trips of the commission shall be held at said headquarters and general offices, the times of said meetings to be fixed by the president of the commission, who shall cause due notice of such meetings to he given members of the commission and the public.
” Approved, February 18, 1901.