Chapter 153. To provide for the establishment on the Mississippi River of a fish-rescue station, to be under the direction of the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce
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CHAP. 153.— An Act To provide for the establishment on the Mississippi River of a fish-rescue station, to be under the direction of the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce. April 28, 1922.[[H. R. 2393](/us/bill/67/hr/2393).][[Public, No. 203](/us/pl/67/203).] *Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there shall be established Mississippi River.Fish rescue, etc., station to be established on.on the Mississippi River, at a point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce, a station for the rescue of fishes and the propagation of mussels in connection with fish-rescue operations throughout the Mississippi Valley, to be under the direction of the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce, and for this Amount authorized for buildings, etc.*Post*, p. 772.purpose there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $60,000 for the construction of buildings and the purchase of equipment, boats, and such other accessories as may be deemed necessary for the successful operation of such station.
Sec. 2. That in connection with the establishment of such fish-rescue Operating personnel.*Post*, p. 772.station there is authorized the following personnel, namely One district supervisor, at $2,500 per annum, to have general charge of fish-rescue and fish-cultural operations in the Mississippi Valley; a superintendent, at $1,500 per annum; two field foremen, at $1,200 each per annum; four fish-culturists at large, at $960 each per annum; one engineer at large, at $1,200 per annum; one clerk, at $1,200 per annum; two coxswains at large, at $720 each per annum; and two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each per annum.
Approved, April 28, 1922.