Public Law 67–217

That an amount, not exceeding

Mississippi River.

Emergency fund for repairing, etc., levees on, above Cairo, Ill.

Ante, p. 504.

$100,000, of the funds authorized to be expended by Public Resolution Numbered 54, approved May 2, 1922, is hereby made available as an emergency fund to be expended by the Mississippi River Commission, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for repairing and restoring any levees on the Mississippi River above Cairo, Illinois, which have been destroyed or seriously injured by the recent floods of the Mississippi River and which are not now within, but may, before

Not yet tinder condition of flood control Act.

Vol. 39, p. 948.

June 15, 1922, be brought within, the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the control of floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, and for other purposes,” approved March 1, 1917: Provided, That if the Mississippi River Commission

Provisos.

Acceptance in emergency of bonds, etc.

finds that the levee or drainage district in which the broken levee is situated can not legally, by or before June 15, 1922, comply with section (b) of such Act of March 1, 1917, the commission may accept, in this emergency, bonds of standing approved by it in amount sufficient to cover not less than one-third of the cost involved: Provided further,

Temporary departure from established practice.

That nothing in this resolution shall be construed as authorizing a departure from the established practice of the commission except so far as may be necessary to permit the restoration of broken levees in districts which are willing but can not legally comply with said method of procedure in time to avoid another threatened over-flow this year.