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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 manu- 
seripts, drawings, ete., 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 1915-1916. 
The appropriation for the publication of the proceedings of the Academy 
during the years 1915 and 1916 was increased by the Legislature in the 
General Appropriation bill, approved March 9, 1915. 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 unexpected balance in 1915 shall be available for 1916, and that any 
unexpended balance in 1916 shall be available in 1917. 
AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS 
AND EGGS. 
Src. 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 birds: The Anatidae, commonly called 
swans, geese, brant, river and sea duck; the Rallidae, commonly ealled rails, 
coots, mud-hens gallinules; the limicolae, commonly called shore birds, surf 
birds, plover, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and curlew; the Gallinae, 
commonly called wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, quails and pheasants; 
