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reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture 

 as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or 

 destruction of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of anj' 

 species of native bird tor any purpose whatever, except under such 

 rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, is prohibited and warning is expressly given to all persons 

 not to commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be 

 known as Island Bay Reservation. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



EXECTTTIVE ORDER OCTOBER 26, 1908. [No. 961.] 

 Loch Katrine Reservation for birds, created. 



It is hereby ordered that all of the lands embraced within the 

 meander survey of a reservoir site located in what is commonly known 

 as the Oregon Basin, embracing five thousand five hundred acres, 

 more or less, in section five, township fifty-one north, range one hun- 

 dred west, sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty- 

 seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty- 

 three and thirty-four, township fifty-two north, range one hundred 

 west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, together with a 

 strip of land fifty feet wide adjoining said meander survey on the 

 outside and surrounding said reservoir site, as the said reservoir site 

 appears upon the mnp of the Shoshone River canal, on file in the Gen- 

 eral Land Office, approved March 13, 1903, and as the same is shown 

 by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part 

 of this Order, are hereby reserved, subject to valid existing rights, 

 and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a pre- 

 serve and breeding ground for native birds. The taking or destruc- 

 tion of birds' eggs and nests, and the taking or killing of any species 

 of native bird for any purpose whatever, except under such rules and 

 regulations as may be jDrescribed by the Department of Agriculture, 

 is prohibited, and warning is expressly given to all persons not to 

 commit any of the acts hereby enjoined. This reserve to be known as 

 the Loch-Katrine Reservation. 



Theodore Roose\t:lt. 



executive order february 3, 1909. [no. 1019.] 



Hawaiian Islands Reservation for birds, created. 



It is hereby ordered that the following islets and reefs, namely: 

 Cure Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lysianski or Pell Island, 

 Laysan Island, Mary Reef, Dowsetts Reef, Gardiner Island, Two 

 Brothers Reef, French Frigate Shoal, Necker Island, Frost Shoal 

 and Bird Island, situated in the Pacific Ocean at and near the extreme 

 western extension of the Hawaiian archipelago between latitudes 

 twenty-three degi'ees and twenty-nine degrees north, and longitudes 

 one hundred and sixty degi'ees and one hundred and eighty degi*ees 

 west from Greenwich, and located within the area segregated by the 

 broken lines shown upon the diagram hereto attached and made a 

 part of this order, are herebv reserved and set apart, subject to valid 

 existing rights, for the use oi the Department of Agriculture as a pre- 

 serve and breeding ground for native birds. It is unlawful for any 

 person to hunt, trap, capture, wilfully disturb, or kill any bird of any 

 kind whatever, or take the eggs of such birds within the limits of this 



