42 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



Salaries, Bureau of Biological Survey: One biologist, wlio shall 

 be chief of bureau, $3,500: one chief clerk, $1,800; one assistant in 

 game preservation, $2,250: two clerks, class three; three clerks, class 

 two; tour clerks, class one; three clerks, at $1,000 each; two clerks, 

 at $900 each; one messenger, $720; one photographer, $1,300; one 

 game warden, $1,200: one draftsman, $900: one messenger, messenger 

 boy, or laborer, $480: one laborer, $600; one charwoman, $240; in 

 all, $29,990. 



General expenses Bureau of Biological Survey: For salaries 

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

 furniture, supjilies. traveling and all other expenses necessary in 

 conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the bureau, 

 as follow.s: 



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 approved iSIarch fourth, nineteen 

 hundred and nine, entitled ''An Act to codify, revise, and amend 

 the penal laws of the United States.'' and for the enforcement of 

 section one of the Act ajiproved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, 

 entitled "An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game 

 kilh'd in violation of local laws, and for other purposes," $10,000: 



For the maintenance of the Montana National Bison Range and 

 other reservations under supervision of the Biological Survey, includ- 

 ing construction of fencing. Avardens' quarters, shelters for animals, 

 landings, roads, trails, bridges, ditches, telephone lines, rockwork. 

 bulkheads, and other improvements necessary for the econi)mical 

 administration and protection of the reservations, and for the en- 

 forcement of section eighty-four of the Act apj^roved March fourth, 

 nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An Act to codify, revi.se. and 

 amend the penal laws of the United States," $21,000, of which sum 

 $2,500 may be used for the purchase, capture, and transportation of 

 game for national reservations: 



For the establishment and maintenance of a winter elk refuge in 

 the Stale of Wyoming. $5,000. to be available until exi)ended. * * *. 



.\ in-Dvisioii. liei'p Dinitted. auth<irizin{i the selection ami enolosiuv of 

 laiiils ill said rcCiiirt'. is sel forth above. 



For investigating the food habits of North American birds and 

 mammals in rcdation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry, in- 

 rluding experiments and demonstrations in destroying noxious ani- 

 mals, and for investigations and experiments in connection with 

 rearing of fur-b(Mring animals, including mink and marten, $()0.()00. 

 of which sum $15.()()0 shall be used fen- the destruction of ground 

 s(]uirrels on the national forests; 



For biological investigations, including the relations, habits, geo- 

 graphic distribution, and migrations of animals and |)lants, and tht 

 pre|)aration of maps of the life and crop zones, $15,000; 



I''or general administrative expenses connected with the above- 

 mentioned lines of work, including cooperation with other Federa' 



