Note 103 — Chapter III · THE CONCEPT OF EMERGENCY IN AMERICAN LEGISLATION

48 Stat. 20, March 23, 1933, earthquake; 48 Stat. 993, June 18, 1934, Sec. 3, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides; Disaster Loan Corporation Act, 50 Stat. 19, February 11, 1937, “floods or other catastrophes in the year 1937”; amendment to National Housing Act, 50 Stat. 70, April 22, 1937, “earthquake, conflagration, tornado, cyclone, hurricane, flood, or other catastrophe”; Emergency Flood Control Act, 59 Stat. 231, June 5, 1945, “floods, or windstorms, or fire caused by lightning”; 61 Stat. 163, June 23, 1947, floods; Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1948, 61 Stat. 460, July 25, 1947, Sec. 3, “emergency caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage”; Flood Rehabilitation Act, 1952, 65 Stat. 615, October 24, 1951, “excessive rains, runoff, and flood-waters”; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liquidation Act, 67 Stat. 230, July 30, 1953, Sec. 202, “floods and other catastrophes”; Presidential Proclamations No. 2222, and 2223, January 23, and February 1, 1937, 50 Stat. 1810, 1811, January 23, 1937 and February 1, 1937, “disastrous floods”, “flood conditions.”