1995 U.S. Code
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, §1, 21 Stat. 37.)

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”.

Section 7 of act June 28, 1879, omitted as temporary and executed, provided for the expenditure of an appropriation of 5,000 for salaries of the commission and necessary expenses of surveys, examinations, etc.

The Missouri River Commission was created by act July 5, 1884, ch. 229, §1, 23 Stat. 144, and repealed by act July 13, 1902, ch. 1079, §1, 32 Stat. 367.

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