Present Status of Refuge System 1. Area approved for purchase by Commission to June 30, 1933...... Average cost per acre.. acres-. dollars.. 2. Area approved for purchase by Commission July 1, 1933, to June 30, 1939. Average cost per acre. acres__ __dollars.. 3. Area acquired and being acquired through cooperation of Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Resettlement Administration, Farm Security Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service.. Average cost per acre.. __acres__ _dollars.. 4. Area acquired and being acquired through purchase under all other funds... Average cost per acre.. acres__ _dollars.. 5. Total area acquired and being acquired through purchase with all funds. Average cost.. Total cost.. _acres__ --dollars__ 6. Area acquired under Executive orders to June 30, 1933__acres__ 7. Area acquired under Executive orders July 1, 1933, to June 30, 1939. 8. Area acquired by gift, easement, etc.. 9. Refuges existing prior to June 30, 1933. 10. Refuges existing on June 30, 1939 1. acres-do.... _number_. .___do___ 11. Total area of all refuges acquired and being acquired......--acres-- 13, 530, 160 Including all easement refuges in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. COMMISSION CHANGES The President's Reorganization Plan No. II, whereby the Bureau of Biological Survey was transferred to the Department of the Interior, resulted also in a change of chairmanship of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, the Secretary of the Interior by virtue of the transfer becoming chairman of the Commission. TABLE 2.-Land for refuges and related uses acquired or in process of acquisition during the fiscal year 1939 under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, with emergency and other funds, by gifts, and by Executive order TABLE 2.-Land for refuges and related uses acquired or in process of acquisition during the fiscal year 1989 under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, with emergency and other funds, by gifts, and by Executive order-Continued South Dakota: Brown. Tennessee: Lake and Obion. Texas: Utah: Box Elder. Vermont: Addison. Virginia: Princess Anne. Washington: Wisconsin: Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Resettlement Administration funds. $1,000,000 fund provided through Executive Order No. 6724 of May 28, 1934. $950,000 fund, a substitute for Executive Order No. 6724. In addition to the acreage shown, the Bureau holds 4,154.61 acres under lease on these refuges. Turned over to the Bureau by act of Congress. Purchased by Farm Security Administration; originally intended for agricultural demonstration areas but transferred to this Bureau. Acquired by gift. Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge fund. 10 Item in the Second Deficiency Act of 1938. 11 Total omitted, as entries in column are for only those refuges on which acquisition work was involved during the year. NOTE.-1-acre items range from a fraction of an acre to 1.49 acres. O WITHOUT APPROVAL THE BILL (H. R. 7050) ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN FORMER DISBURSING OFFICERS FOR THE CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION" MARCH 7, 1940.-Referred to the Committee on Claims, and ordered to be printed To the House of Representatives: I return herewith, without my approval, H. R. 7050, entitled "An act for the relief of certain former disbursing officers for the Civil Works Administration." The bill would authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to credit the accounts of 18 former disbursing officers of the Civil Works Administration with certain amounts specifically set forth therein, the purpose apparently being to permit the balancing and closing of the accounts of the respective disbursing officers. The bill contains no wording which would identify the outstanding items in the accounts and no other wording which would permit or enable the Comptroller General to give effect to its apparent purpose or to do otherwise than credit these specific amounts. If all of these amounts were correct that is, represented the present outstanding balances-the form of the bill would not be objectionable. However, in the case of five of the accounts (Davis, McCracken, Bates, Wahlers, and Carrico) the amounts stated in the bill exceed the actual present outstanding balances and in the case of three of the accounts (Minnis, McIntosh, and Waters) the amounts are less than the present outstanding balances. With respect to the first of these two groups, the enactment of the bill in its present form would result in overcredits which might eventually entail payments, or the equivalent thereof, to the disbursing officers to the extent of such |