Section 7: Emergency Fund
$5 million was authorized as an emergency fund in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927.
Read more about this topic: Flood Control Act Of 1928
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