226 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Wind Cave National Game Preserve; acquisition of lands. 



For the establishment of a national game preserve, to be known 

 as the AVind Cave National Game Preserve, upon the land embraced 

 within the boundaries of the Wind Cave National Park, in the State 

 of South Dakota, for a permanent national range for a herd of buffalo 

 to be presented to the United States by the American Bison Society, 

 and for such other native American game animals as may be placed 

 therein. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to acquire by 

 purchase or condemnation such adjacent lands as may be necessary 

 for the purpose of assuring an adequate, permanent water supply, 

 and to enclose the said game preserve with a good and substantial 

 fence and to erect thereon all necessary sheds and buildings for the 

 proper care and maintenance of the said animals, twenty-six thou- 

 sand dollars, to be available until expended; * * * 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 284. 37 Stat. 293. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



Winter game (elk) reserve in Wyoming; purchase of lands; buildings and in- 

 closures. 



For the establishment of a Avinter 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 toAvnship forty-one north, ranges one hundred 

 and fifteen and one hundred and sixteen west, forty-five thousand 

 dollars, to be available until expended, and the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture is hereby authorized to purchase said lands with improve- 

 ments, to erect necessary buildings and inclosures, and to incur other 

 expenses necessar}' for the maintenance of the reserve | * * * 



Act August 10, 1912. c. 284, 37 Stat. 293. 



These nre provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Salaries, Burh\u of Biological Survey : One biologist, who shall 

 be chief of bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars: one chief 

 clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, class four; 

 one clerk, class thi-ee; two clerks, class two; three clerks, class one; 

 three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hun- 

 dred dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 

 one photographer, one thousand three hundred dollars; one game 

 warden, one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, nine 

 hundred dollars; one messenger, messenger boy, or laborer, four 

 hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, 

 twenty-five thousand one hundred dollars. 



General expenses, Bureai^ of Biological Survey: For salaries 

 and employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, 

 furniture, supplies,, traveling and all other expen.ses necessary in con- 

 ducting investigations and carrying out the work of the bureau, as 

 follows: 



For the enforcement of sections two hundred and forty-one. two 

 hundred and forty-two, two hundred and forty-three, and two hun- 

 dred and forty-four of the Act a]iproved March fourth, nineteen 



