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![handle is hein.animal/esbinv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 70TH CONGRESS i HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
2d Session f { No 2265
ESTABLISHMENT OF INVIOLATE SANCTUARIES TOIGIVE
FURTHER PROTECTION TO MIGRATORY BIRDS
JANUARY 28, 1929.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HAUGEN, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the
following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1271]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(S. 1271) to more effectively meet the obligations of the United
States under the migratory bird treaty with Great Britain by lessening
the dangers threatening migratory game birds from drainage and other
causes, by the acquisition of areas of land and of water to furnish
in perpetuity reservations for the adequate protection of such birds;
and authorizing appropriations for the establishment of such areas,
their maintenance, and improvement, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it
do pass with the following amendment:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
That this act shall be known by the short title of Migratory bird conservation
act.
SEc. 2. That a commission to be known as the Migratory Bird Conservation
Commission, consisting of the Secretary of Agriculture, as chairman, the Secre-
tary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Interior, and two Members of the Senate,
to be selected by the President of the Senate, and two Members of the House
of Representatives, to be selected by the Speaker, is hereby created and author-
ized to consider and pass upon any area of land, water, or land and water that
may be recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture for purchase or rental
under this act, and to fix the price or prices at which such area may be purchased
or rented; and no purchase or rental shall be made of any such area until it has
been duly approved for purchase or rental by said commission. Any Member
of the House of Representatives who is a member of the commission, if reelected
to the succeeding Congress, may serve on the commission notwithstanding the
expiration of a Congress. Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the
same manner as the original appointment. The ranking officer of the branch or
department of a State to which is committed the administration of its game
laws, or his authorized representative, and in a State having no such branch or
department, the governor thereof, or his authorized representative, shall be a
member ex officio of said commission for the purpose of considering and voting
on all questions relating to the acquisition, under this act, of areas in his State.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.animal/esbinv0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)