§ 691. Cheyenne Bottoms Migratory Bird Refuge; location; acquisition of land

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by purchase, gift, or lease not to exceed twenty thousand acres of land in what is known as the Cheyenne Bottoms, in Barton County, Kansas, or, in lieu of purchase, to compensate any owner for any damage sustained by reason of submergence of his lands.

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.

1930
Pub. L. 71–469 § 1 · 46 Stat. 579
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 691
June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 1, 46 Stat. 579
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 1, 46 Stat. 579

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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

1930–1939 · 2 acts

1930June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 1, 46 Stat. 579
19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.

Show as published

(June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 1, 46 Stat. 579; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)