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[CITE: 16USC659]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
    CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF FUR SEALS AND OTHER FUR-BEARING ANIMALS
 
Sec. 659. Sea lions; acts prohibiting killing repealed

    All Acts and parts of Acts making it unlawful to kill sea lions, as 
game animals or otherwise, in the waters of the Territory of Alaska are 
repealed.

(June 16, 1934, ch. 556, 48 Stat. 976; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 92-
522, title I, Sec. 113(b), Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1042.)


                               Amendments

    1972--Pub. L. 92-522 struck out proviso prohibiting killing of sea 
lions in waters of Alaska except under rules and regulations prescribed 
by Secretary of the Interior.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
    Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
transferred Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce, and its 
functions and functions of Secretary of Commerce relating to protection 
of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals and supervision of Pribilof 
Islands and care of natives thereof, to Department of the Interior.


                      Admission of Alaska as State

    Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on 
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as 
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.
