Section 1

Section 1. Consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is given to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift, devise or lease, of such areas of land or water or of land and water anywhere in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as the United States, with the consent of the executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Governor, may deem necessary for the establishment of migratory-bird reservations in accordance with the Act of Congress, approved February eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine, entitled "An act 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," reserving, however, to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania full and complete jurisdiction and authority over all such areas not incompatible with the administration, maintenance, protection and control thereof, by the United States under the terms of said Act of Congress. (Amended, 1972, Act No. 56, P. L. 151, Section 1)