Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 742
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Section 742 - Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, acts Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 1436; Mar.
4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 736, provided for an acting
Commissioner of Fisheries.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, Sec. 4(e), (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4
F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
transferred Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce and its
functions, and Bureau of Biological Survey in Department of
Agriculture and its functions, to Department of the Interior, to be
administered under direction and supervision of Secretary of the
Interior.
Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, Sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R.
2108, 54 Stat. 1232, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees, consolidated Bureau of Fisheries and
Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency in Department of the
Interior to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. It was
further provided that functions of consolidated agency should be
administered under direction and supervision of Secretary of the
Interior by a director and assistants, and that offices of
Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries and offices of
Chief and Associate Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey should be
abolished and their functions transferred to consolidated agency.
The Fish and Wildlife Service, created by Reorg. Plan No. III of
1940 was succeeded by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
established by act Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, Sec. 3, 70 Stat. 1119.
See section 742b of this title.
EX. ORD. NO. 9634. ESTABLISHMENT OF FISHERY CONSERVATION ZONES
Ex. Ord. No. 9634, Sept. 28, 1945, 10 F.R. 12305, provided in
part:
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as
President of the United States, it is hereby ordered that the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior shall from
time to time jointly recommend the establishment by Executive
orders of fishery conservation zones in areas of the high seas
contiguous to the coasts of the United States, pursuant to the
proclamation entitled "Policy of the United States With Respect to
Coastal Fisheries in Certain Areas of the High Seas" [Proc. No.
2668, Sept. 28, 1945, 10 F.R. 12304], this day signed by me, and
said Secretaries shall in each case recommend provisions to be
incorporated in such orders relating to the administration,
regulation and control of the fishery resources of and fishing
activities in such zones, pursuant to authority of law heretofore
or hereafter provided.
Harry S Truman.
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