§ 37. Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals

Statutory text

As a means of providing within township 8 south, ranges 7 and 8 east, and township 9 south, ranges 7, 8, and 9 east, Montana principal meridian, the winter range and winter feed facilities indispensable for the adequate and proper protection, preservation, and propagation of the elk, antelope, and other game animals of the Yellowstone National Park and adjacent lands, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, and subject to the limitation hereinafter prescribed may, and is, authorized to perform the following acts:

Accept and deposit in a special fund in the Treasury, and expend for the acquisition of lands as herein authorized, private funds donated for such purpose.

Acquire by purchase, or by acceptance of donations or bequests, such lands in private or State ownership within the townships above described as he may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of sections 37 to 40 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1926
Pub. L. 69–399 § 1 · 44 Stat. 655
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 37
(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, § 1, 44 Stat. 655.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, § 1, 44 Stat. 655.)

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Credits

(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, § 1, 44 Stat. 655.)