§ 673. — Wyoming Elk Reserve.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC673]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 673. Wyoming Elk Reserve
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.
(Aug. 10, 1912, ch. 284, 37 Stat. 293; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145,
Sec. 1[part], 37 Stat. 847; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(f), eff.
July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)
Codification
Section is a combination provision, the first sentence being from
act Aug. 10, 1912, and the last from act Mar. 4, 1913.
As originally enacted, the first sentence was in the form of an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.
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of
the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 671 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 673a of this title.
