Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection
§ 673. Wyoming Elk Reserve
Statutory text
There is established a winter game (elk) reserve in the State of Wyoming, which shall be located in that section of Wyoming lying south of the Yellowstone Park, and shall include not less than two thousand acres in township 41 north, ranges 115 and 116 west, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase said lands with improvements, to erect necessary buildings and inclosures, and to incur other expenses necessary for the maintenance of the reserve. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to include in said refuge and to inclose not more than one thousand acres of unoccupied public lands, which when selected shall be made to conform to the lines of the public surveys, and shall be adjacent to or partly inclosed by said refuge.
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.
Pub. L. 62–284 · 37 Stat. 269
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 673
Aug. 10, 1912, ch. 284, 37 Stat. 293
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 10, 1912, ch. 284, 37 Stat. 293
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is a combination provision, the first sentence being from act , and the last from act .
As originally enacted, the first sentence was in the form of an appropriation for the purposes thereof as was also the second sentence which began with the following words: “For the establishment and maintenance of a winter elk refuge in the State of Wyoming, $5,000, to be available until expended, and the Secretary, etc.”
Res. Feb. 25, 1927, ch. 205, 44 Stat. 1246, authorized the acceptance of title to certain lands in accordance with this section.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.
Credits
1912–1939 · 3 acts
- 1912Aug. 10, 1912, ch. 284, 37 Stat. 293
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 847
- 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
Show as published
(Aug. 10, 1912, ch. 284, 37 Stat. 293; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 847; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)