300 RURAL DENMARK 



All proceedings under this Act shall be taken in a 

 public Police Court, the fines to go to the special funds 

 provided by this Act, or where such fund does not exist, 

 to the public funds of such local authority. 



Any person delivering up rats to any other local 

 authority than to that within the district of which they 

 have been caught shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 100 kroner. 



This Act shall come into operation on a date to be 

 fixed hereafter by the Minister of the Interior and remain 

 in operation for three years. 



In the Session of the Riksdag immediately preceding 

 the expiration of this Law a vote shall be taken for the 

 renewal or revision of this Law. 1 



The Government is authorised by Royal Rescript to 

 make such alterations in the operations of this Law within 

 the Faroe Islands as may be considered most suitable, 

 having regard to the special conditions obtaining within 

 those islands. 



Given at Amalienborg, the twenty-second of March, 

 Nineteen Hundred and Seven. 



Under Our Royal Hand and Seal, 

 FREDERICK R., 

 Sigurd Berg. 



CIRCULAR TO THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES 



Whereas the "Association for the Authorised Exter- 

 mination of Rats " has proved to the satisfaction of the 

 Ministry of the Interior that it is in a position to expend 

 on the furtherance of its objects not less than 10,000 

 kroner within a period of three years, it is hereby re- 

 quested, in pursuance of Act No. 59, of the twenty-second 

 March, Nineteen Hundred and Seven (see Public Notice 

 dated this day) and commencing with the first day of 



1 This Law has, I am informed, been recently re-enacted by the 

 Danish Parliament with some alterations. H. R. H. 



