or without drivers at local rates approved by the Director, stenographic reporting service, traveling expenses and carfare, and leather and rubber articles for the protection of public property and employees, $430,000, of which $20,000 shall be available for the construction and equipment of a structure, West Potomac Park, to be used as a first-aid station, park police lodge, maintenance and comfort

station.

FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

For the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, including the purchase of printed bags, tags, and labels, without regard to existing laws, applicable to public printing, furniture, carpets, typewriters, computing and adding machines, filing devices, and other office equipment and labor-saving devices, stationery, telephone and telegraph service, postage stamps for official use, express, freight, and drayage charges, traveling, and all other expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the Service, including cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other agencies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals, as follows:

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of the Director, two assistant directors, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $165,930.

Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, acquisition, and operation of fish-cultural stations, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures; general propagation of food fishes and their distribution; propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels; purchase, collection, and transportation of specimens and other expenses (including not to exceed $5,320 for personal services), incidental to the maintenance and operation of aquarium; and all other necessary expenses, $1,069,555, including $15,000 for commencing the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the vicinity of Houston, Texas, including the purchase of land, the construction of buildings, ponds, water supply, improvements to grounds, purchase of equipment, and other necessary expenses.

The unobligated balance of the appropriation remaining under the limitation of $155,000 to establish or commence the establishment of stations authorized by the Act approved May 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 371), contained in the Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1940, under the head "Propagation of food fishes", which was continued available during the fiscal year 1941, is continued available during the fiscal year 1942, and the unobligated balance of the appropriation remaining under the limitation of $120,000 for the establishment of stations in Arkansas and Mississippi, for the purchase of a fishcultural station in Oklahoma, and for the further development of the stations at Lamar, Pennsylvania, and on Williams Creek, on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, under the head "Propagation of food fishes", is continued available during the fiscal year 1942.

Construction of fish screens: For construction, operation, and maintenance, in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or either, of fish screens and ladders on Federal irrigation projects, and for the conduct of investigations and surveys, the preparation of designs, and supervision of construc

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tion of such screens and ladders; and for determining the requirements for fishways and other fish protective devices at dams constructed under licenses issued by the Federal Power Commission in 16 U. s. C. § 791- accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Power Act (16 U. S. C. 791), $50,000.

41 Stat. 1063.
S. §§

825r.
Post, p. 553.

Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the cause of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States; investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries; and maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of biological stations, $545,475.

Fishery industries: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, and the methods of preservation and utilization of fishery products, and to enable the Secretary of the Interior to execute the functions imposed upon him by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products", approved June 25, 1934 (48 Stat. 15 U. S. C. § 521, 1213), including preparation of reports, contract stenographic reporting services, and all other necessary expenses, $196,940.

522.

41 U. S. C. § 5.

Reappropriation.

54 Stat. 643.

Black Bass

and Whaling Treaty Acts.

Fishery market news service: For collecting, publishing, and distributing, by telegraph, mail, or otherwise, information on the fishery industry, market supply and demand, commercial movement, location, disposition, and market prices of fishery products, with or without cooperation with any department or agency of the United States, or any State or Territory, or subdivision thereof, $86,220.

Alaska fisheries: For protecting the seal, sea otter, and other fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska; construction, improvement, repair, and alteration of buildings and roads, and subsistence of employees while on said islands; contract stenographic reporting service; and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $457,380, of which $100,000 shall be available immediately.

Alaska crab investigation: For all necessary expenses of the Fish and Wildlife Service in continuing and completing a technical, economic, and biological investigation of the king crab fishery off the coast of Alaska, locating the areas of abundance, and carrying on experiments to develop improved methods of taking and canning king crabs, including the charter of vessels without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the appointment of employees without regard to the civil-service and classification laws, $25,000, and not to exceed $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this heading in the "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940", is hereby reappropriated and added to this appropriation.

Enforcement of Black Bass and Whaling Treaty Acts: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to administer the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to regulate interstate transportation of black bass, and for other purposes', approved 46 Stat. 845; 49 Stat. May 20, 1926", approved July 2, 1930 (16 U. S. C. 851-856), and to execute the functions imposed upon him by The Whaling Treaty Act, approved May 1, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 901-915), $17,000.

1246.

43 Stat. 650.

Upper Mississippi River Fish Refuge: For construction of buildings, boats, and ponds, for purchase of equipment, including boats, and maintenance, operation, repair, and improvements, as authorized in the Act approved June 7, 1924 (16 U. S. C. 721-731), $17,000.

Food habits of birds and animals: For investigating the food habits and economic value of North American birds and animals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, including methods of conserving beneficial and controlling injurious birds and animals, $80,000.

Fur-resources investigations: For investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and cooperation in connection with the production and utilization of animals the pelts of which are used commercially for fur, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures, $114,400.

Biological investigations: For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geographic distribution, and migration of animals and plants, and the preparation of maps of the life zones, and including $45,738 for investigations of the relations of wild animal life to forests, under section 5 of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (16 U. S. C. 581d), and for investigations of the wildlife resources of the Territory of Alaska, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures, $255,800.

Control of predatory animals and injurious rodents: For investigations, demonstrations, and cooperation in destroying animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, and wild game, as authorized by the Act of March 2, 1931 (7 U. S. C. 426-426b); and in protecting stock and other domestic animals through the suppression of rabies and other diseases in predatory wild animals; and for construction, repairs, additions, and installations in and about the grounds and buildings of the game-management supply depot and laboratory at Pocatello, Idaho, including purchase, transportation, and handling of supplies and materials for distribution from said depot to other projects, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June 24, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 667), $949,300.

45 Stat. 701.

46 Stat. 1468.

Pocatello, Idaho, depot and laboratory.

49 Stat. 1913.

40 Stat. 755; 49 Stat. 1555.

50 Stat. 1311.

Protection of migratory birds: For all necessary expenses for enforcing the provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, as amended by the Act of June 20, 1936 (16 U. S. C. 703-711), to carry into effect the treaty with Great Britain for the protection of birds migrating between the United States and Canada (39 Stat., pt. 2, 1702), and the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals; for cooperation with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds, and for necessary investigations connected therewith; for all necessary expenses for enforcing the Act of June 8, 1940 (54 Stat. 250), entitled "An Act for the protection of the bald eagle"; for the enforcement of sections 241, 242, 243, and 244 of the Act approved March 4, 1909, as amended (18 U. S. Č. 391–394), and for the enforcement of section 1 of the Act approved May 25, 1900 (16 U. S. C. 701), including all necessary investigations in connection therewith, $366,500, of which not to exceed $10,000 may be expended tion of law violations. in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the laws for the enforcement of which this appropriation is made available.

Enforcement of Alaska game law: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Alaska game law, approved January 13, 1925, as amended by the Act of February 14, 1931, and by the Act of June 25, 1938 (48 U. S. C. 192–211), including the purchase of aircraft and the erection and equipment of a hangar in Alaska for the Alaska Game Commission, $158,000.

Maintenance of mammal and bird reservations: For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range, the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, and other reservations, and for the maintenance of game introduced into suitable localities on public lands, under supervision of the Fish and Wildlife Service, including construction of fencing, wardens' quarters, shelters for animals, landings, roads, trails, bridges, ditches, telephone lines, rockwork, bulkheads, and other improvements necessary for the econom

16 U. S. C. §§ 668668d.

35 Stat. 1137; 49 Stat. 380.

31 Stat. 187. Securing informa

43 Stat. 739; 46 Stat. 1111; 52 Stat. 1169.

on bird-breeding

grounds.

35 Stat. 1104.

Prohibited acts on

Taking of eggs, etc., ical administration and protection of the reservations; for the enforcement of section 84 of the Act approved March 4, 1909 (18 U. S. C. 145), entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States", and Acts amendatory thereto, and section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (16 U. S. C. 7151); for the purchase, capture, and transportation of game for national reservations; and for the maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, $833,550.

acquired areas. 45 Stat. 1224.

Wichita Mountains

Wildlife Refuge.

Administrative ex

penses.

48

Stat. 378.

Migratory bird conservation refuges: For carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to more effectively meet the obligations of the United States under the migratory-bird treaty with Great Britain (39 Stat., pt. 2, 1702) by lessening the dangers threatening migratory game birds from drainage and other causes, by the acquisition of areas of land and of water to furnish in perpetuity reservations for the adequate protection of such birds; and authorizing appropriations for the establishment of such areas, their maintenance and improvement, and for other purposes", approved February 18, 1929, as amended by title III of the Act approved June 15, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 715-715r), $78,450.

Restoration of Lower Klamath Migratory Waterfowl Refuge: For the restoration and development of Klamath Lake Reservation (commonly known as the Lower Klamath Migratory Waterfowl Refuge) as a feeding, nesting, and breeding ground for migratory birds, including the construction of water-control works thereon and for necessary expenses incident thereto, $65,000; together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $70,000 for this purpose in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941. In all, salaries and expenses, $5,531,500.

MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION FUND

For carrying into effect the provisions of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement and support the Migratory Bird Conservation Act by providing funds for the acquisition of areas for use as migratory-bird sanctuaries, refuges, and breeding grounds, for developing and administering such areas, for the protection of certain migratory birds, for the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and regulations thereunder, and for other purposes", Stat. 451; 49 approved March 16, 1934, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to amend the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, and certain other Acts relating to game and other wildlife, administered by the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes", approved June 15, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 718-718h), an amount equal to Receipts from stamp the sum received during the fiscal year 1942 from the proceeds from the sale of stamps, to be warranted monthly; and in addition thereto an amount equal to the unobligated balance on June 30, 1941, of the total of the proceeds received from the sale of stamps prior to July 1, 1941: Provided, That hereafter all such migratory bird hunting stamps not sold at the end of the fiscal year for which issued shall be turned over to the philatelic agency and therein placed on sale until disposed of or until the Congress otherwise provides: Provided further, That such stamps shall be usable as migratory bird hunting stamps only during the fiscal year for which issued.

sales.

Provisos.

Stamps not sold at end of year.

Use restricted.

FEDERAL AID IN WILDLIFE RESTORATION

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife. restoration projects, and for other purposes", approved September

2, 1937 (16 U. S. C. 669-669j), $2,750,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury under the provisions of said Act.

Total, Fish and Wildlife Service, $8,281,500, and in addition thereto funds made available under the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, of which amounts not to exceed $933,180 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $77,100 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia: Provided, That funds available for the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles; books, periodicals, and newspapers (not to exceed $100), rubber boots, oilskins, first-aid outfits, and rations for officers and crews of vessels; for the expenditure from appropriations available for the purchase of lands of not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land; and for the employment, by contract or otherwise, of men with equipment, boats, work animals, animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects included within the general expenses of said Service, but no more than 5 per centum shall be added to any one item or appropriation: Provided further, That the Fish and Wildlife Service may exchange motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, road equipment, boats, aircraft, typewriters, computing or duplicating machines, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof, in part payment for vehicles, tractors, road equipment, boats, aircraft, typewriters, computing or duplicating machines, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof: Provided further, That cooperative work conducted by the Fish and Wildlife Service shall be subject to the provisions of the Act of July 24, 1919 (5 U. S. C. 563-564): Provided further, That commutation of rations (not to exceed $1 per man per day) may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and money accruing from commutation of rations on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels; and the Act of March 5, 1928 (5 U. S. C. 75a), shall not be construed to require deductions from the salaries of officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service for quarters and rations furnished on vessels of said Service.

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES

TERRITORY OF ALASKA

Salaries of the Governor and the secretary, $15,600.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the offices of the Governor and the secretary of the Territory, clerk hire, not to exceed $7,520; janitor service for the Governor's office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $3,180; traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the Capital on official business and of the secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the Governor; repair and preservation of Governor's house and furniture; care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $16,620, to be expended under the direction of the Governor.