WILDLIFE RESTORATION, PITTMAN-ROBERTSON ACT, 1937 7 
State fish and game department of each State accepting the benefits of this 
Act shall agree upon the wildlife-restoration projects to be aided in such State 
under the terms of this Act and all projects shall conform to the standards fixed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act the term “wildlife-restoration project” 
shall be construed to mean and include the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, 
and improvement of areas of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting, or 
breeding places for wildlife, including acquisition by purchase, condemnation, 
lease, or gift of such areas or estates or interests therein as are suitable or 
capable of being made suitable therefor, and the construction thereon or therein 
of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such purposes 
and also including such researeh into problems of wildlife management as may 
be necessary to efficient administration affecting wildlife resources, and such 
preliminary or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about 
such projects; the term “State fish and game department” shall be construed 
to mean and include any department or division of department of another name, 
or commission, or official or officials, of a State empowered under its laws to 
exercise the functions ordinarily exercised by a State fish and game department. 
Sec. 3. An amount equal to the revenue accruing during the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 19389, and each fiscal year thereafter, from the tax imposed by section 
610, title IV, of the Revenue Act of 19382 (47 Stat. 169), as heretofore or here- 
after extended and amended, on firearms, shells, and cartridges, is hereby 
authorized to be set apart in the Treasury as a special fund to be known as 
“The Federal aid to wildlife-restoration fund” and is hereby authorized to be 
appropriated and made available until expended for the purposes of this Act. 
So much of such appropriation apportioned to any State for any fiscal year 
as remains unexpended at the close thereof is authorized to be made available 
for expenditure in that State until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Any 
amount apportioned to any State under the provisions of this Act which is 
unexpended or unobligated at the end of the period during which it is available 
for expenditure on any project is authorized to be made available for expendi- 
ture by the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out the provisions of the 
Migratory Bird Conservation Act. 
Sec. 4. So much, not to exceed 8 per centum, of the revenue covered into said 
fund in each fiscal year as the Secretary of Agriculture may estimate to be 
necessary for his expenses in the administration and execution of this Act and 
the Migratory Bird Conservation Act shall be deducted for that purpose, and 
such sum is authorized to be made available therefor until the expiration of 
the next succeeding fiscal year, and within sixty days after the close of such 
fiscal year the Secretary of Agriculture shall apportion such part thereof as 
remains unexpended by him, if any, and make certificate thereof to the Secretary 
of the Treasury and to the State fish and game departments on the same basis 
and in the same manner as is provided as to other amounts authorized by this 
Act to be apportioned among the States for such current fiscal year. The 
Secretary of Agriculture, after making the aforesaid deduction, shall appor- 
tion the remainder of the revenues in said fund for each fiscal year among the 
several States in the following manner, that is to say, one-half in the ratio 
which the area of each State bears to the total area of all the States and one- 
half in the ratio which the number of paid hunting-license holders of each State 
in the preceding fiscal year, as certified to said Secretary by the State fish 
and game departments, bears to the total number of paid hunting-license holders 
of all the States: Provided, That the apportionment for any one State shall not 
exceed the sum of $150,000 annually: Provided further, That where the appor- 
tionment to any State under this section is less than $15,000 annually, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may allocate not more than $15,000 of said fund to 
said State te carry out the purposes of this Act when said State certifies to the 
Secretary of Agriculture that it has set aside not less than $5,000 from its fish 
and game funds or has made, through its legislature, an appropriation in this 
amount, for said purposes. 
Sec. 5. Within sixty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to each State 
fish and game department the sum which he has estimated to be deducted for 
administering and executing this Act and the Migratory Bird Conservation Act 
and the sum which he has apportioned to each State for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1939, and on or before February 20 next preceding the commencement 
of each succeeding fiscal year shall make like certificates for such fiscal year. 
