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purposes under such laws or regulations as the High Contracting Powers 

 may severally deem appropriate. 



h Article VI 



The High Contracting Powers agree that the shipment or export of 

 gratory birds or their eggs from any State or Province, during the 

 continuance of the close season in such State or Province, shall be pro- 

 hibited except for scientific or propagating purposes, and the interna- 

 tional traffic in any birds or eggs at such time captured, killed, taken, or 

 shipped at any time contrary to the laws of the State or Province in which 

 the same were captured, killed, taken, or shipped shall be likewise pro- 

 hibited. Every package containing migratory birds or any parts thereof 

 or any eggs of migratory birds transported, or offered for transportation 

 from the Dominion of Canada into the United States or from the United 

 States into the Dominion of Canada, shall have the name and address 

 of the shipper and an accurate statement of the contents clearly marked 

 on the outside of such package. 



Article VII 



Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which, under extraor- 

 dinary conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or 

 other interests in any particular community, may be issued by the proper 

 authorities of the High Contracting Powers under suitable regulations 

 prescribed therefor by them respectively, but such permits shall lapse or 

 may be cancelled, at any time when, in the opinion of said authorities, 

 the particular exigency has passed, and no birds killed under this article 

 shall be shipped, sold, or offered for sale. 



Article VIII 



The High Contracting Powers agree themselves to take, or propose to 

 their respective appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures 

 for insuring the execution of the present Convention. 



Article IX 



The present Convention shall be ratified by His Britannic Majesty 

 and by the President of the United States of America, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the Senate thereof. The ratifications shall be ex- 

 changed at Washington as soon as possible and the Convention shall 

 take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall re- 

 main in force for fifteen years, and in the event of neither of the High 



