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[CITE: 33USC641]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                CHAPTER 13--MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 641. Creation of Mississippi River Commission

    A commission is created to be called ``The Mississippi River 
Commission'', to consist of seven members.

(June 28, 1879, ch. 43, Sec. 1, 21 Stat. 37.)

                          Codification

    This was the first section of 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 head-waters''.


                 Appropriation for Salaries and Expenses

    Section 7 of act June 28, 1879, omitted as temporary and executed, 
provided for the expenditure of an appropriation of $175,000 for 
salaries of the commission and necessary expenses of surveys, 
examinations, etc.


                        Missouri River Commission

    The Missouri River Commission was created by act July 5, 1884, ch. 
229, Sec. 1, 23 Stat. 144, and repealed by act July 13, 1902, ch. 1079, 
Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 367.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 642, 647, 653, 653a of this 
title.
