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Article VII 



Permits to kill any of the above-named birds wliicli, under ex- 

 traordinaiy conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agri- 

 cultural or other interests in any particular community, may be issued 

 by the proper authorities of the High Contracting Powers under suit- 

 able 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 respecting appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary 

 measures for insuring the execution of the present Convention. 



Article IX 



The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the 

 United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Senate thereof, and by His Brittanic Majesty. The ratifications shall 

 be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the Convention 

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

 shall remain in force for fifteen years and in the event of neither of 

 the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve 

 months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its in- 

 tention of terminating its operation, the Convention shall continue 

 to remain in force for one year and so on from year to year. 



In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the 

 present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. 



Done at Washington this sixteenth day of August, one thousand 

 nine hundred and sixteen. 



[seal.] Egbert Lansing. 



[seal.] Cecil Spring Eice. 



