United States from or into which such mammals, parts, or products thereof, are proposed to be exported or imported, and the laws of the United States forbidding importation of certain live mammals injurious to the interests of agriculture and horticulture, which regulations shall become effective as provided in section 704 of this title. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 4, 40 Stat. 755; June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 4, 49 Stat. 1556; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 706. Arrests; search warrants.

Any employee of the Department of the Interior authorized by the Secretary of the Interior to enforce the provisions of sections 703-711 of this title shall have power, without warrant, to arrest any person committing a violation of said sections in his presence or view and to take such person immediately for examination or trial before an officer or court of competent jurisdiction; shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent jurisdiction for the enforcement of the provisions of said sections; and shall have authority, with a search warrant, to search any place. The several judges of the courts established under the laws of the United States, and United States commissioners may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. All birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed contrary to the provisions of said sections or of any regulations made pursuant thereto shall, when found, be seized by any such employee, or by any marshal or deputy marshal, and, upon conviction of the offender or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed contrary to the provisions of said sections or of any regulation made pursuant thereto, shall be forfeited to the United States and disposed of as directed by the court having jurisdiction. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 5, 40 Stat. 756; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

$707. Punishments.

Any person, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of said conventions or of sections 703-711 of this title, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any regulation made pursuant to said sections, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 6, 40 Stat. 756; June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 2, 49 Stat. 1556.)

§ 708. State or Territorial laws or regulations.

Nothing in sections 703-711 of this title shall be construed to prevent the several States and Territories from making or enforcing laws or regulations

not inconsistent with the provisions of said conventions or of said sections, or from making or enforcing laws or regulations which shall give further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, if such laws or regulations do not extend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates approved by the President in accordance with section 704 of this title. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 7, 40 Stat. 756; June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 2, 49 Stat. 1556.)

§ 709. Migratory birds, nests, or eggs for scientific or propagating purposes.

CODIFICATION

Section, act July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 8, 40 Stat. 756, authorized taking and use of migratory birds, nests, or eggs for scientific or propagating purposes until adoption and approval, pursuant to section 704 of this title, of regulations dealing therewith. Regulations were promulgated by Proc. July 31, 1918, 40 Stat. 1812.

§ 709a. Authorization of appropriations.

There is authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to accomplish the purposes of said conventions and of sections 703-711 of this title and regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected therewith. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 9, as added June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 5, 49 Stat. 1556; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS

Section 6 of act June 20, 1936, provided that "all moneys now or hereafter available for administration and enforcement of said Act approved July 3, 1918 (sections 703-711 of this title) shall be equally available for the administration and enforcement of said act as hereby emended."

§ 710. Partial invalidity; short title.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of sections 703-711 of this title, which shall be known by the short title of the "Migratory Bird Treaty Act", shall for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, §§ 1, 10, 40 Stat. 755, 757.)

§ 711. Breeding and sale for food supply.

Nothing in sections 703-710 of this title shall be construed to prevent the breeding of migratory game birds on farms and preserves and the sale of birds so bred under proper regulation for the purpose of increasing the food supply. (July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 12, 40 Stat. 757.)

MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION

§ 715. Short title.

Sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157— 715r of this title shall be known by the short title of "Migratory Bird Conservation Act." (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 1, 45 Stat. 1222.)

§ 715a. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission; creation; composition; duties; approval of areas of land and water recommended for purchase or rental.

A commission to be known as the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, consisting of the Secretary of the Interior, as chairman, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Agriculture 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 created and authorized to consider and pass upon any area of land, water, or land and water that may be recommended by the Secretary of the Interior for purchase or rental under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, 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 said sections, of areas in his State. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 2, 45 Stat. 1222; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), (h), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433, 1434.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, transferred the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to the conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to the Secretary of the Interior, and provided that the Secretary of the Interior should be chairman of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission and that the Secretary of Agriculture should be a member thereof.

§ 715b. Same; annual report.

The commission created by section 715a of this title shall, through its chairman, annually report in detail to Congress, not later than the first Monday in December, the operations of the commission during the preceding fiscal year. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 3, 45 Stat. 1223.)

§ 715c. Areas recommended for approval; character. The Secretary of the Interior shall recommend no area for purchase or rental under the terms of sec

tions 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7151-715r of this title except such as he shall determine is necessary for the conservation of migratory game birds. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 4, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715d. Purchase or rental of approved areas; gifts and devises; United States lands.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase or rent such areas as have been approved for purchase or rental by the commission, at the price or prices fixed by said commission, and to acquire by gift or devise, for use as inviolate sanctuaries for migratory birds, areas which he shall determine to be suitable for such purposes, and to pay the purchase or rental price and expenses incident to the location, examination, and survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, including options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior from moneys to be appropriated hereunder by Congress from time to time: Provided, That no lands acquired, held, or used by the United States for military purposes shall be subject to any of the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 5, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title. §715d-1. Acceptance of land in exchange for other land or timber, etc., rights.

When the public interests will be benefited thereby the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any land which he deems chiefly valuable for wildlife refuges, and in exchange therefor to convey by deed on behalf of the United States an equal value of lands acquired by him for like purposes, or he may authorize the grantor to cut and remove from such lands an equal value of timber, hay, or other products, or to otherwise use said lands, when compatible with the protection of the wildlife thereon, the values in each case to be determined by said Secretary. Timber or other products so granted shall be cut and removed, and other uses exercised, under the laws and regulations applicable to such refuges and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and under such supervision and restrictions as he may prescribe. Any lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms of this section shall immediately become a part of the refuge or reservation of which the lands, timber, and other products or uses given in exchange were or are a part and shall be administered under the laws and regulations applicable to such refuge or reservation. (June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, § 302, 49 Stat. 382; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§715d-2. Acceptance of land in exchange for patent to nonmineral public land.

When the public interests will be benefited thereby the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, are chiefly valuable for migratory bird or other wildlife refuges, and in exchange therefor may patent not to exceed an equal value of surveyed or unsurveyed, unappropriated, and unreserved nonmineral public lands of the United States in the same State, the value in each case to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Before any such exchange is effected notice thereof, reciting the lands involved, shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands proposed to be granted by the United States in such exchange. Lands conveyed to the United States under this section shall be held and administered by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms of section 715i of this title, and all the provisions of said section are hereby extended to and shall be applicable to the lands so acquired. (June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, § 303, 49 Stat. 382; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715d-3. Allocation of funds for acquisition of refuges. CODIFICATION

Section, act June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title V, § 501, 49 Stat. 383, authorized President to allocate out of appropriation made to him by resolution of April 8, 1935, a sum for acquisition of areas for bird sanctuaries and refuges.

§ 715e. Same; examination of title; easements and reservations.

The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General, but the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purposes of said sections, but such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations retained by the grantor or lessor from whom the United States receives title under said sections or any other Act for the acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior of areas for wildlife refuges shall be subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the occupation, use, operation, protection, and administration of such areas as inviolate sanctuaries for migratory birds or as refuges for wildlife; and it shall be expressed in the deed or lease that the use, occupation, and operation of such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall be subordinate to and subject to such rules and regulations as are set

out in such deed or lease or, if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him from time to time. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 6, 45 Stat. 1223; June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, § 301, 49 Stat. 381; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715e-1. Application of section 715e to sections 715d-1 and 715d-2.

All the provisions of section 715e of this title, relating to rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall apply equally to exchanges effected under the provisions of sections 715d-1 and 715d-2 of this title, and in any such exchanges the value of such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall be considered in determining the relation of value of the lands received by the United States to that of the land conveyed by the United States. June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, § 304, 49 Stat. 382.)

§ 715f. Same; consent of State to conveyance.

No deed or instrument of conveyance shall be accepted by the Secretary of the Interior under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7151-715r of this title unless the State in which the area lies shall have consented by law to the acquisition by the United States of lands in that State. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 7, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715g. Jurisdiction of State over areas acquired.

The jurisdiction of the State, both civil and criminal, over persons upon areas acquired under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title shall not be affected or changed by reason of their acquisition and administration by the United States as migratory-bird reservations, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the United States is concerned. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 8, 45 Stat. 1224.)

§ 715h. Same; operation of State game laws.

Nothing in sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title is intended to interfere with the operation of the game laws of the several States applying to migratory game birds insofar as they do not permit what is forbidden by Federal law. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 9, 45 Stat. 1224.)

§ 715i. Prohibited acts on areas acquired.

No person shall knowingly disturb, injure, or destroy any notice, signboard, fence, building, ditch, dam, dike embankment, flume, spillway, or other improvement or property of the United States on any area acquired under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f715k, and 7157-715r of this title, or cut, burn, or destroy any timber, grass, or other natural growth, on said area or on any area of the United States which heretofore has been or which hereafter may be set

apart or reserved for the use of the Department of the Interior as a game refuge or as a preserve or reservation and breeding ground for native birds, under any law, proclamation, or Executive order, or occupy or use any part thereof, or enter thereon for any purpose, except in accordance with regulations of the Secretary of the Interior; nor shall any person take any bird, or nest or egg thereof on any area acquired under said sections, except for scientific or propagating purposes under permit of the Secretary of the Interior; but nothing in said sections or in any regulation thereunder shall be construed to prevent a person from entering upon any area acquired under said sections for the purpose of fishing in accordance with the law of the State in which such area is 10cated: Provided, That such person complies with the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior covering such area. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 10, 45 Stat. 1224; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

CROSS REFERENCES

Administration of lands acquired under section 715d-2 of this title under the terms of this section, see section 715d-2 of this title.

§ 715j. Migratory birds defined.

For the purposes of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f -715k, and 7157-715r of this title, migratory birds are those defined as such by the treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 11, 45 Stat. 1224.)

§ 715k. Appropriations for purposes of chapter; disposal; reservation protectors.

For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding grounds frequented by migratory game birds and under the administration of the Secretary of the Interior, including the construction of dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wildlife conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for the enforcement of the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7151-715r of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated,

$200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year thereafter. No part of any appropriation authorized by this section shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or

expenses of any United States game protector, except reservation protectors for the administration, maintenance, and protection of such reservations and the birds thereon: Provided, That reservation protectors appointed under the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in which they are to be employed. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ such means, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing objects. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 12, 45 Stat. 1224; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds, to Secretary of the Interior, see note under section 701 of this title.

APPROPRIATIONS

Former provisions of this section related to appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1930, to June 30, 1939.

§ 715k-1. Expenditures for personal services.

In the execution of this section, sections 141b, 715d-1-715d-3, 715e, 715e-1 and 715s of this title, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such expenditures for personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere as he shall deem necessary. (June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title VII, 49 Stat. 384; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715k-2. Availability of $6,000,000 fund. CODIFICATION

Section, acts June 29, 1937, ch. 404, title I, 50 Stat. 421; June 16, 1938, ch. 464, title I, 52 Stat. 736; June 30, 1939, ch. 253, title I, 53 Stat. 965, made an earlier specific appropriation available for maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.

§ 7151. Execution of provisions; powers and duties of United States judges, commissioners and employees of Department of the Interior.

For the efficient execution of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, the judges of the several courts established under the laws of the United States, United States commissioners, and persons appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to enforce said sections, shall have, with respect thereto, like powers and duties as are conferred by section 706 of this title upon said judges, commissioners, and employees of the Department of the Interior appointed to enforce sections 703-711 of this title. Any bird, or part, nest or egg thereof, taken or possessed contrary to sections 715—715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, when seized shall be disposed of as provided by said section 706. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 13, 45 Stat. 1225; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715m. Violations of provisions; penalty.

Any person, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f— 715k, and 7151-715r of this title, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $500, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 14, 45 Stat. 1225.)

§ 715n. Word "take" defined.

For the purposes of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f -715k, and 7157-715r of this title the word "take" shall be construed to mean pursue, hunt, shoot, capture, collect, kill, or attempt to pursue, hunt, shoot, capture, collect, or kill, unless the context otherwise requires. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 15, 45 Stat. 1225.) § 7150. National forest and power sites; use for migratory bird reservations.

Nothing in sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title shall be construed as authorizing or empowering the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission created by section 715a of this title, the Secretary of the Interior, or any other board, commission, or officer, to declare, withdraw, or determine, except heretofore designated, any part of any national forest or power site, a migratory bird reservation under any of the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, except by and with the consent of the legislature of the State wherein such forest or power site is located. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 16, 45 Stat. 1225; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715p. Cooperation of State in enforcement of provisions.

When any State shall, by suitable legislation, make provision adequately to enforce the provisions of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 715-715r of this title and all regulations promulgated thereunder, the Secretary of the Interior may so certify, and then and thereafter said State may cooperate with the Secretary of the Interior in the enforcement of such sections and the regulations thereunder. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 17, 45 Stat. 1225; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F. R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

See note under section 701 of this title.

§ 715q. Expenses of commission; appropriation.

A sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the commisison' and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of $5,000, is authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropriation

1 So in original.

shall be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman of said commission, which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon the General Accounting Office as to the correctness of the accounts of said commission. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 18, 45 Stat. 1225.)

§ 715r. Partial invalidity; validity of remainder.

If any provision of sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f715k, and 7157-715q of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid the validity of the remainder of such sections and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. (Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 19, 45 Stat. 1226.)

§ 715s. Participation of States in revenues from refuges after deduction of expenses.

Twenty-five per centum of all money received during each fiscal year from the sale or other disposition of surplus wildlife, or of timber, hay, grass, or other spontaneous products of the soil, shell, sand, or gravel, and from other privileges on refuges established under sections 715-715d, 715e, 715f-715k, and 7157-715r of this title, or under any other law, proclamation, of Executive order, administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior, shall be paid at the end of such year by the Secretary of the Treasury to the county or counties in which such refuge is situated, to be expended for the benefit of the public schools and roads in the county or counties in which such refuge is situated: Provided, That when any such refuge is in more than one State or Territory or county or subdivision, the distributive share to each from the proceeds of such refuge shall be proportional to its area therein: Provided further, That subject to applicable regulations under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, the disposition or sale of surplus animals, and products, and the grant of privileges on said wildlife refuges may be made upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine to be for the best interests of government or for the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of information regarding the conservation of wildlife, including sale in the open market, exchange for animals of the same or other kinds, and gifts or loans to public or private institutions for exhibition or propagation: And provided further, That except as otherwise provided by section 485 of Title 40 out of any moneys received from the grant, sale, or disposition of such animals, products, or privileges, or as a bonus upon the exchange of such animals the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to pay any necessary expenses incurred in connection with and for the purpose of effecting the removal, grant, disposition, sale, or exchange of such animals, products, or privileges; and in all cases such expenditures shall be deducted from the gross receipts of the refuge before the Secretary of the Treasury shall distribute the 25 per centum thereof to the States as hereinbefore provided. (June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title IV, § 401, 49 Stat. 383;