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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 690f. Expenditures by Secretary of the Interior for construction, maintenance, etc., of Bear River Refuge; employment of necessary means to execute functions imposed on him

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such expenditures for construction, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and improvements, including necessary investigations, and expenditures for personal services and office expenses at the seat of government and elsewhere, and to employ such means as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this section or sections 690 to 690i of this title and as may be provided for by Congress from time to time.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 70–413 § 7 · 45 Stat. 448

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 690f

    Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 7, 45 Stat. 449

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 7, 45 Stat. 449

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make Expenditures authorized for construction, equipment, etc. such expenditures for construction, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and improvements, including necessary investigations, and expenditures for personal services and office expenses at the seat of government and elsewhere, and to employ such means as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this Act and as may be provided for by Congress from time to time.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 690i, included within the reference to sections 690 to 690i, was omitted from the Code.

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

1928–1939 · 2 acts
  1. 1928Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 7, 45 Stat. 449
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
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(Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 7, 45 Stat. 449; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

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