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Academy through its editors or its council. The remaining three hundred 
copies shall be turned over to the Academy to be disposed of as it may 
determine. In order to provide for the preservation of the same it shall be 
the duty of the Custodian of the State House to provide and place at the 
disposal of the Academy one of the unoccupied rooms of the State House, 
to be designated as the office of the Academy of Science, wherein said copies 
of said reports belonging to the Academy, together with the original 
manuscripts, drawings, etc., thereof can be safely kept, and he shall also 
equip the same with the necessary shelving and furniture. 
Sec. 4. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate 
taking effect of this act, and it shall therefore take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 
APPROPRIATION FOR 1913-1914. 
The appropriation for the publication of the proceedings of the Acad- 
emy during the years 1913 and 1914 was increased by the Legislature in the 
General Appropriation bill, approved March 9, 1909. That portion of the 
law fixing the amount of the appropriation for the Academy is herewith 
given in full: 
For the Academy of Science: For the printing of the proceedings of 
the Indiana Academy of Science twelve hundred dollars: Provided, That 
any unexpended balance in 1915 shall be available in 1914, and that any 
unexpended balance in 1914 shall be available in 1915. 
AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS 
AND EGGS. 
SEc. 602. Whoever kills, traps or has in his possession any wild bird, 
or whoever sells or offers the same for sale, or whoever destroys the nest 
or eggs of any wild bird, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more 
than twenty-five dollars: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall 
not apply to the following named game birds: The Anatidze, commonly 
called swans, geese, brant, river abd sea duck; the Rallidse, commonly 
called rails, coots, mud-hens, gallinules; the Limicolze, commonly called 
shore birds, surf birds, plover, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and 
curlew; the Gallinze, commonly called wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chick- 
ens, quails and pheasants; nor to English or European house sparrows, 
