---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 641"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "641"
heading: "Creation of Mississippi River Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/641"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Mississippi River Commission"
---

# §641. Creation of Mississippi River Commission


A commission is created to be called “The Mississippi River Commission”, to consist of seven members.


## Source credit

(June 28, 1879, ch. 43, § 1, 21 Stat. 37.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Appropriation for Salaries and Expenses

Act June 28, 1879, ch. 43, § 7, 21 Stat. 38, omitted as temporary and executed, provided for the expenditure of an appropriation of $175,000 for salaries of the commission and necessary expenses of surveys, examinations, etc.

### Missouri River Commission

The Missouri River Commission was created by act July 5, 1884, ch. 229, § 1, 23 Stat. 144, and repealed by act July 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 1, 32 Stat. 367.