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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 715k. Authorization of appropriations for purposes of subchapter; disposal; reservation protectors
For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and
survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for
use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident
thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development
of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding
grounds frequented by migratory birds and under the administration
of the Secretary of the Interior, including the construction of
dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other
necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of
migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or
other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wildlife
conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North
American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and
issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for
the enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter, there are
hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all other
amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, $200,000 for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year
thereafter. No part of any appropriation authorized by this section
shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or expenses
of any United States protector, except reservation protectors for
the administration, maintenance and protection of such reservations
and the birds thereon: Provided, That reservation protectors
appointed under the provisions of this subchapter, shall be
selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in
which they are to be employed. The Secretary of the Interior is
authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ
such means, including personal services in the District of Columbia
and elsewhere, as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing
objects.
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