To amend chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, relating to animals, birds, and fish. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 3 of Title 18, U. S. title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding the following section: § 46. Transportation of water hyacinths. Code, amendments. 62 Stat.686. 70 Stat. 797. “(a) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, or 70 Stat. 798. transports, in interstate commerce, alligator grass (alternanthera philoxeroides), or water chestnut plants (trapa natans) or water hyacinth plants (eichhornia crassipes) or the seeds of such grass or plants; or "(b) Whoever knowingly sells, purchases, barters, exchanges, gives, or receives any grass, plant, or seed which has been transported in violation of subsection (a); or "(c) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, or transports, in interstate commerce, an advertisement, to sell, purchase, barter, exchange, give, or receive alligator grass or water chestnut plants or water hyacinth plants or the seeds of such grass or plants "Shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. "SEC. 2. (a) The analysis of part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking out "'Chapter 3. Animals, birds, and fish' and inserting in lieu thereof "Chapter 3. Animals, birds, fish, and plants'. "(b) The analysis of chapter 3 of title 18 is amended by striking out the heading "CHAPTER 3. ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISH' and inserting in lieu thereof "'CHAPTER 3. ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND PLANTS'; and by adding the following: "'46. Transportation of water hyacinths.'" Approved August 1, 1956. Chapter 845 - 2d Session AN ACT All 70 Stat. 897. To provide for the development of the Federal fish hatchery, known as the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall develop, reconstruct, equip, operate, and maintain the Federal fish hatchery, known as the Holden trout hatchery, at Pittsford, Vermont, in accordance with the program established by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, for the improvement of such hatchery. Holden trout hatchery, Pittsford, Vt. SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $220,000 Appropriation. to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved August 1, 1956. (457) Chapter 885 - 2d Session H. R. 5299 AN ACT To authorize the establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a portion of Virgin Islands the Virgin Islands of the United States, containing outstanding scenic National Park. and other features of national significance, shall be established, as prescribed in section 2 hereof, as the "Virgin Islands National Park". The national park shall be administered and preserved by the Sec- Administration. retary of the Interior in its natural condition for the public benefit and inspiration, in accordance with the laws governing the administration 39 Stat. 535. of the national parks (16 U. S. C. 1, and the following). limitations. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, subject to Conditions and the following conditions and limitations, to proceed in such manner as he shall find to be necessary in the public interest to consummate the establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park: (a) The acreage of the national park shall be limited to a total of not more than nine thousand five hundred acres of land area, such total to be comprised of not more than fifteen acres on the island of Saint Thomas, and not more than nine thousand four hundred and eighty-five additional acres to be comprised of portions of the island of Saint John and such small islands, rocks, and cays not in excess of five hundred acres in the general vicinity thereof as may be desirable for inclusion within the park; (b) Tentative exterior boundary lines, to include land not in excess of the aforesaid acreage limitations, may be selected for the park in order to establish the particular areas in which land may be acquired pursuant to this Act, such tentative boundaries to be selected and adjusted as may be necessary by the Secretary of the Interior: 70 Stat, 940. (c) The Secretary, on behalf of the United States, is authorized 70 Stat. 941. to accept donations of real and personal property within the areas selected for the park until such time as the aforesaid total of nine thousand five hundred acres shall have been acquired for the park by the United States, and he may also accept donations of funds for the purposes of this Act; (d) Any Federal properties situated within the areas selected for the park, upon agreement by the particular agency administering such properties that such properties should be made available for the park, may be transferred without further authorization to the Secretary by such agency for purposes of this Act; (e) Establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, in its initial phase, shall be and is hereby declared to be accomplished and effective for purposes of administration when a minimum acreage of not less than five thousand acres in Federal ownership for purposes of this Act shall have been acquired by the United States in specific areas containing such acquired lands to be designated by the Secretary; and (f) Notice of the establishment of the park as authorized and pre- Publication scribed by this Act shall be published in the Federal Register. in FR. SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from Federal Appropriation. funds a sum not in excess of $60,000 for capital improvements for All 70 Stat. 941. said Virgin Islands National Park, and a sum of not in excess of Relating to the management of the Red Lake Indian Forest and sawmill. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventeenth paragraph of section 9 of the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 123, 137) is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Red Lake Indian Forest shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with principles of scientific forestry that will encourage the production of successive timber crops for the benefit of the Indians of the Red Lake Band, and he is hereby authorized (a) to harvest, sell, and manufacture such marketable timber from any tribal lands within the Red Lake Indian Reservation as he may deem to be advisable and, if the timber is the growth of Red Lake Indian Forest, in keeping with the foregoing principles, (b) to establish nurseries and otherwise provide for the reforestation of said lands, (c) to construct and operate sawmills and other facilities for the manufacture into marketable products of the timber harvested from said lands, (d) to purchase, harvest, and manufacture such additional timber standing on or severed from any other lands, including lands outside the reservation, as in his opinion may contribute to the profitable operation of such sawmills and other facilities as a tribal enterprise, subject to such limitations on expenditures as may be prescribed in annual appropriations acts, and (e) to employ, with the consent of the tribal council, such persons and use such means as he may find necessary to carry out the purposes of the foregoing provisions. Any proceeds derived from sales of timber or timber products under this paragraph may be expended in payment of the expenses of any of the activities authorized by this paragraph, including construction expenses." SEC. 2. The fourth paragraph of section 8 of the Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. 3, 14) is hereby amended by striking out the proviso. Approved August 3, 1956. Red Lake 84th Congress Chapter 943 - 2d Session To provide for the establishment of a new fish hatchery in the vicinity of Paint Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Paint Bank, of the Interior is authorized and directed to construct, equip, main- Va. tain, and operate a new fish hatchery in the vicinity of Paint Bank, Virginia. Fish hatchery. SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums Appropriation. as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Approved August 3, 1956. To provide for the establishment of a fish hatchery in the State of West Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish, construct, equip, operate, and maintain a new fish hatchery in the State of West Virginia. SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Approved August 6, 1956. (460) |