Commonmcaltli of IHassacIniscfts, 



Resolves of 1905, Chapter 51. 



A ltE.SOI>\'E TO TROVIUE F« )U I'IMU'AIMNO AND PKIXTIXO A SIMCCIAL 

 REl'OKT OX THE BIKDS OF THE COMMON WEALTH . 



Rcsolccd, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury- of the 

 Commonwealth a sum uot exceeding three thousand dollars for prepar- 

 ing and jjrinting, under the direction of the state l)oard of agriculture, in 

 an edition of live thousand copies, a special report'on the birds of the 

 Commonwealth, economically considered, to include the facts relating 

 to the usefulness of birds and the necessity for their protection already 

 ascertained l)y the ornithologist of the state board of agriculture, to l)e 

 distributed as follows : — Two copies to each free pul)lic library in the 

 Commonwealth ; two copies to each higli school, and two copies to such 

 schools in towns which ha\'e no higli school as the school committee 

 may designate; one copy to the lil)rary of congress, and one copy to 

 each state or territorial library in the United States : twenty-five copies 

 to the state lilirary ; five copies to the governor ; two copies to the lieu- 

 tenant governor and each memljer of the council ; two copies to the 

 secretary of the Commonwealth ; two copies to the treasurer and re- 

 ceiver general ; two copies to the auditor of accounts ; two copies to the 

 attoi'uey-genei'al, and one copy to each memlier of the present general 

 court applying foi" the same : the remainder to be distributed under the 

 direction of the state board of agriculture. [Approved April 14, 1905. 



