12.080. County commission shall direct expenditures. - Missouri Statutes

County commission shall direct expenditures.

12.080. All sums of money received from the United States, or anydepartment thereof under an act of Congress approved August 18, 1941, being anact providing for the payment to the several states of seventy-five percent ofall moneys received for leases of land situated in the various states to whichthe United States owns fee simple title under the Flood Control Act of May 15,1928, as amended and supplemented (33 U.S.C.A. § 701c-3), to be expended asthe general assembly may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools andpublic roads of the county in which the government land is situated, or fordefraying any of the expenses of county government in the county, includingpublic obligations of levee and drainage districts for flood control anddrainage improvements, or as provided by any acts of Congress authorizing thedistribution of income or revenue from lands owned by the United States ofAmerica or any of its departments, bureaus or commissions or any agency of theUnited States of America, to states or counties or as provided by anyamendments to those acts, shall be expended as the county commission of thecounty entitled to receive the funds directs in accordance with the provisionsand regulations provided by the acts of Congress for distribution to statesand counties.

(RSMo 1939 § 12696, A.L. 1955 p. 766, A.L. 1957 p. 726)