1506 SIXTY-SEVENTH oousnnss. sms. 1v. cm. 277-279. 1923. vide for the control of the Hoods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes," aplproved March 1, 1917, the Secretary of War is hereby empowered, authorured, and directed to carry on continuously, by hired labor or otherwise, the plans of the Mississippi River Commission heretofore or hereafter adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to m$·1°`7Qaii°lai¢m xx; time be made by law; and a sum not to exceed $10,000,000 annually mm my *-1**- is hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose, for a period E dimumud ofsixyearsbe§§iningJ11ly1,1924. _ • _ ed {Palate n1¤im,m] Any funds w `ch may hereafter be appropriated under authority of ‘““ *° *"“’“““°‘· °‘°· this Act, and which may be allotted to works of Hood control, may be expended upon any{ part of the Mississippi River between the Head of the Passes and ock Island, Illinois, and upon the tributaries and outlets of said river in so far as they may be aifected by the Hood waters of said river. Approved, March 4, 1923. uma4,1m . [H- **-*3998-1 CHAP. 278.-An Act Making section 1535cof the Godoof Law for the District of It Eb“"· N°·”°·l Columbia applicable to the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 1,,,,,.,,, _ Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Re eaentatifvea of the ¥¤¤!g¤_鑧 :1 United States of?/America in Oongresa aaaem.b£:l', That hereafter eggs: in actions at section 1535c of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, per- ‘°$§§f‘,,_p_5,9_ erpuitable defenses to be interposed in actions at law, shall be agp ica le to now pending in the Municipal Court of the istrict of lumbia as well as to actions hereafter brought in said court. Approved, March 4, 1923.
"" CHAP. 279.-An Act To amend an Act a ved Se tember 8, 1916 rovidin rar holding swam or me Umm sam amigirgem aspen emma or Mime, and
for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Re entatives of the J1EL':¤•iidii°mt$:°n dis· United States of America in Oongrese a·sse{nble€iT“That the Act_ of v,;,3q,,,g,0,,m,,d. Congress approyed September 8, 1916, entitled “An Act to provide •‘· for holding sessions of the United States district court in the district of Maine and for d1v1d` said district into divisions, and providinog for offices of the clerk aurig marshal of said district to be maintain m each of said divisions, and for the appointment of a field deputy marshal in the division in which the marshal does not reside,’ be amended in the first section thereof, by striking out the word “ February ” where it appears firstinsaid section, substituting therefor the word, "November,” so that the said section, when amended, shall read as follows: §§&f*¤¤~ _ “That hereafter, and until otherwise provided by law, two sessions of the United States District Court for the District of Maine shal1_be held in each and every year in the cit of Ban r in said district, beginning zwpectively, on the first Tiiesday o§ON’ovember mum and the Tuesday of June, and three sessions of said court shall ‘ held in each and every year in the city of Portland in said distrxct begmnmg, reaective y, on the first Tuesda of A ril, on the mm third Tuesday of ptember and on the second, Tuesday in Desgménmasam. €¢{¤b¤1'¤ Pnmded, however, That in the year 1923, the session of '°° um wd mm, ¤t _B¥<{1‘z begmmng on the first Tuesday of November, shall_be held in ditxon to the sessions in February and June, now provided for by 1aw.” Approved, March 4, 1923.
