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Resolves of 1905, Chapter 51. 

 A Resolve to provide fok prepahingt and pkintixg a special 



REPORT ox the BIRDS OF THE COMMOXWEALTH. 



Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the 

 Commonwealth a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars for prepar- 

 ing and printing, under the direction of the state board of agriculture, in 

 an edition of Ave 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 by the ornithologist of the state board of agriculture, to be 

 distributed as follows : — Two copies to each free public library in the 

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

 schools in towns which have no high school as the school committee 

 may designate ; one copy to the library of congress, and one copy to 

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

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

 tenant governor and each member 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 

 attorney-general, and one co^jy to each member of the present general 

 court applying for the same ; the remainder to be distributed under the 

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



