Sec. 12. **[**[16 U.S.C. 715k](/us/usc/t16/s715k)**]**
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## Sec. 12 **[**[16 U.S.C. 715k](/us/usc/t16/s715k)**]** For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding grounds frequented by migratory birds and under the administration of the Secretary of Agriculture3, including the construction of dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wild life conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, the following amounts for the fiscal years specified— 3See footnote to section 2. $75,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930; $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931; $600,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932; $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933; $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter for a period of six years; and $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year thereafter.
Not more than 20 per centum of the amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1930, and for each fiscal year to and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, shall be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere incident to the administration and maintenance of acquired areas, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars and posters. No part of any appropriation authorized by this section shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or expenses of any United States protector, except reservation protectors for the administration, maintenance, and protection of such reservations and the birds thereon: *Provided*, That reservation protectors appointed under the provisions of this Act shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in which they are to be employed.
The Secretary of Agriculture4 is authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ such means, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing objects. 4See footnote to section 2. **[**Sections 13 and 14 were repealed by section 7(d) of Public Law 89–669, 80 Stat. 930.**]**
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Sec. 12
**[**[16 U.S.C. 715k](/us/usc/t16/s715k)**]**
Pub. L.Pub. L. 89-669
Stat.80 Stat. 930
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