Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 715k


   
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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