Chapter 277. To continue the improvement of the Mississippi River and for the control of its floods
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CHAP. 277.— An Act To continue the improvement of the Mississippi River and for the control of its floods. March 4, 1923.[[H. R. 13810](/us/bill/67/hr/13810).][[Public, No. 528](/us/67/pl/528).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That forMississippi River flood control.Vol .39, p. 948, amended.Plans adopted for, to mouth of the Ohio, continued. controlling the floods of the Mississippi River and continuing its improvement from the Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of “An Act to pro-1506vide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1917, the Secretary of War is hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to carry on continuously, by hired labor or otherwise, the plans of the Mississippi River Commission heretofore or hereafter adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to Annual amounts authorized for six years from July 1, 1924.time be made by law; and a sum not to exceed $10,000,000 annually is hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose, for a period of six years beginning July 1, 1924.
Expenditures extended to Rock Island, Ill., and to tributaries, etc.Any funds which may hereafter be appropriated under authority of this Act, and which may be allotted to works of flood control, may be expended upon any part of the Mississippi River between the Head of the Passes and Rock Island, Illinois, and upon the tributaries and outlets of said river in so far as they may be affected by the flood waters of said river. Approved, March 4, 1923.