or of timber, hay, grass, or other spontaneous products of the soil, shell, sand, or gravel, and from other privileges on refuges established under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929, or under any other law, proclamation, or Executive order, administered by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, shall be paid at the end of such year by the Secretary of the Treasury to the county or counties in which such refuge is situated, to be expended for the benefit of the public schools and roads in the county or counties in which such refuge is situated: Provided, That when any such refuge is in more than one State or Territory or county or subdivision, the distributive share to each from the proceeds of such refuge shall be proportional to its area therein: Provided further, That the disposition or sale of surplus animals, and products, and the grant of privileges on said wildlife refuges may be made upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be for the best interests of government or for the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of information regarding the conservation of wildlife, including sale in the open market, exchange for animals of the same or other kinds, and gifts or loans to public or private institutions for exhibition or propagation: And provided further, That out of any moneys received from the grant, sale, or disposition of such animals, products, or privileges, or as a bonus upon the exchange of such animals the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay any necessary expenses incurred in connection with and for the purpose of effecting the removal, grant, disposition, sale, or exchange of such animals, products, or privileges; and in all cases such expenditures shall be deducted from the gross receipts of the refuge before the Secretary of the Treasury shall distribute the 25 per centum thereof to the States as hereinbefore provided.

TITLE V-ACQUISITION OF WILDLIFE REFUGES

SECTION 501. The President of the United States is hereby authorized to allocate out of moneys appropriated to him under the terms of Public Resolution Numbered 11, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved April 8, 1935, such sum as he may deem necessary or advisable for the acquisition by purchase, or otherwise, including the necessary expenses incidental thereto, of areas of land and water or land or water for game bird and animal refuges and for migratory bird sanctuaries and refuges, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the said Public Resolution Numbered 11.

TITLE VI-TRANSFER OF WIND CAVE NATIONAL GAME PRESERVE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

SECTION 601. That, effective July 1, 1935, the Wind Cave National Game Preserve in the State of South Dakota, be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and all the property, real or personal, comprising the same is hereby transferred to and made a part of the Wind Cave National Park and the same shall hereafter be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a part of said park, subject to all laws

and regulations applicable thereto, for the purposes expressed in the Act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 268-293), establishing said game

preserve.

TITLE VII-CONTINUANCE OF APPROPRIATIONS

That there is hereby appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the sum of $3,300,000,000 appropriated by the Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 274), making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes, the sum of $6,000,000, which shall remain available until expended, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire by purchase or otherwise such lands as may be necessary in his opinion adequately to provide for the restoration, rehabilitation, and protection of migratory waterfowl and other wildlife and to erect and construct thereon and in connection therewith such buildings, dikes, dams, canals, and other works as may be necessary; and in the execution of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such expenditures for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere as he shall deem necessary.

Approved, June 15, 1935.

[H. R. 7680]

AN ACT

To Amend the Act of May 18, 1934, Providing Punishment for Killing or Assaulting Federal Officers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide punishment for killing or assaulting Federal officers", approved May 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 780; U. S. C., title 18, secs. 253 and 254), be and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"That whoever shall kill, as defined in sections 273 and 274 of the Criminal Code, any United States marshal or deputy United States marshal, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, post office inspector, Secret Service operative, any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, any employee of any United States penal or correctional institution, any officer of the Customs Service or of the Internal Revenue Service, any immigrant inspector or any immigration patrol inspector, any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce any Act of Congress for the protection, preservation, or restoration of game and other wild birds and animals, any officer or employee of the National Park Service, any officer or employee of, or assigned to duty in, the field service of the Division of Grazing of the Department of the Interior, or any officer or employee of the Indian field service of the United States, while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under section 275 of the Criminal Code."

Approved, February 8, 1936.

(93)

[S. 4584]

AN ACT

To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), to extend and adapt its provisions to the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded at the city of Mexico February 7, 1936, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the title of the Act entitled "An Act to give effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes", approved July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), is hereby amended as of the day on which the President shall proclaim the exchange of ratifications of the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936, or on the day of the enactment of this Act, whichever date is later, so that it will read as follows:

"An Act to give effect to the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded at the city of Mexico February seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty six, and for other purposes."

SEC. 2. That said Act approved July 3, 1918, is hereby amended as of the day aforesaid by striking out the word "convention" wherever it occurs therein and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "conventions".

SEC. 3. That section 2 of said Act approved July 3, 1918, is hereby amended as of the day aforesaid so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or in any manner, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to barter, barter, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, cause to be shipped, exported, or imported, deliver for transportation, transport or cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried, or receive for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, any migratory bird, or any part, nest, cr egg of any such birds, included in the terms of the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936."

SEC. 4. That section 4 of said Act approved July 3, 1918, is hereby amended as of the day aforesaid by adding at the end thereof the following:

"It shall be unlawful to import into the United States from Mexico, or to export from the United States to Mexico, any game mammal, dead or alive, or parts or products thereof, except under permit or authorization of the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with such regulations as he shall prescribe having due regard to the laws of the United Mexican States relating to the exportation and importation of such mammals or parts or products thereof and the laws of the State, District, or Territory of the United States from or into which such mammals, parts, or products thereof, are proposed to be exported or imported, and the laws of the United States forbidding importation of certain live mammals injurious to the interests of agriculture and horticulture, which regulations shall become effective as provided in section 3 hereof."

SEC. 5. That section 9 of said Act approved July 3, 1918, is hereby repealed as of the day aforesaid and the following is hereby substituted in lieu thereof:

"SEC. 9. That there is authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to accomplish the purposes of said conventions and this Act and regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected therewith."

SEC. 6. That all moneys now or hereafter available for administration and enforcement of said Act approved July 3, 1918, shall be equally available for the administration and enforcement of said Act as hereby amended.

Approved, June 20, 1936.

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