114 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
APPORTIONING ALLOTMENTS FOR PRINTING AND BINDING: Except the appropria- 
tions for salaries in the office of the superintendent of documents, and for 
stores and general expense for the office of the superintendent of documents, 
all appropriations made herein under ‘ Government Printing Office” shall be 
considered in apportioning the allotments for printing and binding to the 
Congress and the several executive departments, bureaus, and independent 
offices of the Government: Provided, That no other fund appropriated by this 
act, or any other act, shall be used for services or other purposes in the 
Government Printing Office, or in the office of the superintendent of docu- 
ments, of the character specified in the foregoing paragraphs, except in cases 
of emergency arising after the passage of this act, and then only on the written 
order of the Public Printer; and the aggregate of all salaries or other expenses — 
thus paid, in addition to those specifically appropriated for above, shall be 
reported to Congress each year in connection with the annual estimates. (Ap- 
proved March 4, 1909; Statutes XXXVI, 1021.) 
SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS): For custodian, one thousand 
five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, 
seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty 
dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved 
March 4, 1909; Statutes XXXVI, 857.) 
IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN INJURIOUS BIRDS AND ANIMALS: 
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Sec. 241. The importation into the United States, or any Territory or Dis- 
trict thereof, of the mongoose, the so-called ‘ flying foxes” or fruit bats, the 
English sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the inter- 
ests of agriculture or horticulture, is hereby prohibited; and all such birds 
and animals shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed 
or returned. at the expense of the owner. No person shall import into the 
United States or into any Territory or District thereof, any foreign wild 
animal or bird, except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture: 
Provided, That nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural 
history specimens for museums or scientific collections, or of certain cage 
birds, such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds as the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this 
section. - 
Sec. 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common Car- 
rier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any 
State, Territory, or District of the United States, to any other State, Territory, 
or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which is 
prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, 
where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws 
of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from which 
they were shipped: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the transporta- 
tion of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the same. may 
be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the 
State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or killed: Pro- 
vided further, That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, transporta- 
tion, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers of 
barnyard fowls, 
