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61 STAT.] 80rH CONG., 1sT SESS. - CHS. 121,124, 125-JUNE 23,25,1947 [CHAPTER 121] 163 AN ACT AN ACT June 23,1947 To provide for emergency flood-control work made necessary by recent floods, [. R. 37921 and for other purposes. [Public Law 102] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thoPPrlation au- $15,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated as an emergency Post,p.187. fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restora- tion, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods: Provided, That pending the Allotments from appropriation of said sum, the Secretary of War may allot, from tis.g apro existing flood-control appropriations, such sums as may be necessary for the immediate prosecution of the work herein authorized, such appropriations to be reimbursed from the appropriation herein authorized when made: Providedfurther, That funds allotted under this authority shall not be diverted from the unobligated funds from the appropriation "Flood control, general", made available in War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Acts for specific purposes. SEC. 2. The provisions of section 1 shall be deemed to be additional and supplemental to, and not in lieu of, existing general legislation authorizing allocation of flood-control funds for restoration of flood- control works threatened or destroyed by flood. Approved June 23, 1947. [CHAPTER 124] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office", JS. 6141 approved March 6, 1902 as amended (the collection and publication of statis- [Public Law 1031 tical information by the Bureau of the Census). Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a permanent Census Office", approved March 6, 1902, as amended (U. S . C., title 13, sec. 111), is 32sat. 2a. amended by adding at the end of the first sentence thereof the words: Provided, That where the doctrine, teaching, or discipline of any religious denomination or church prohibits the disclosure of informa- tion relative to membership, such information shall not be required." Approved June 25, 1947. [CHAPTER 125] AN ACT To regulate the marketing of economic poisons and devices, and for other [ue. R1237 purposes. [Public Law 1041 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act". DEFINITIONS SEC. 2 . For the purposes of this Act- a. The term "economic poison" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or miti- gating any insects, rodents, fungi, weeds, and other forms of plant "Ecoomic poisog."