Chapter 139.
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CHAP. 139.— Joint Resolution Appropriating $1,000,000 for the preservation, protection, and repair of levees under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission. April 21, 1922.[[H. J. Res. 309](/us/bill/67/hjres/309).][[Pub. Res., 50](/us/bill/pubres/67/50).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Mississippi River.Emergency appronation for protecting levees, etc., during present flood. That there be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the stun of $1,000,000 to be immediately available as an emergency fund to be expended by the Mississippi River Commission during the present flood in the Mississippi River for the purpose of preserving, protecting, *Provisos*.Amount to be deducted from subsequent flood appropriation.Vol. 39, p. 948.and repairing the levees under its jurisdiction: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall deduct $1,000,000 from the appropriation that shall first hereafter be made tor the use of said Mississippi River Commission under the terms of the Flood Control Act 499of March 1, 1917, and said $1,000,000 be carried to the surplus fund *Post*, p. 760.Use ot unexpended balances.and covered into the Treasury: *Provided further*, That any unexpended balance of the sum hereby appropriated remaining after the present flood emergency has passed may be expended by the Mississippi River Commission under the authority and subject to the provisions of the said Flood Control Act.
Approved, April 21, 1922.