Volume 45
Public Law 70–143
Making an additional appropriation for the eradication or control of the pink bollworm of cotton.
Approved March 7, 1928
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Making an additional appropriation for the eradication or control of the pink bollworm of cotton.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That to enable
Pink bollworm of cotton.
Appropriation to meet emergencies outbreak of, in western. Texas, etc.
the Secretary of Agriculture to meet an emergency caused by a serious outbreak of the pink bollworm of cotton in western Texas, and to prevent its spread to other parts of Texas and to adjoining States, including the same objects and under the same conditions specified under the heading “Eradication of pink bollworm” in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the additional sum of $200,000, to remain available until June 30, 1929.
Approved, March 7, 1928.