Excerpt from Annual Report of the Mississippi River Commission for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1891: Being Appendix Zz of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1891 The language above quoted makes several changes in the legislation under which the Commission has been acting, the most important of which is the removal of restrictions as to the building of levees. The appropriation was allotted as follows, viz: To levees, to works of channel improvement, to surveys and examine tions, salaries, and expenses of Commission, to harbors, ih cludin g Red and Atchafalaya. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.