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Importation of Bird Plumage and Skins. — The following 

 proclamation appeared in the Commonwealth Gazette of 31st 

 October, 1908: — "Whereas by the Customs Act 1901 it is 

 enacted that all goods the importation of which may be 

 prohibited by proclamation are prohibited imports, and that the 

 power of prohibiting the importation of goods shall authorize 

 prohibition subject to any specified condition or restriction, and 

 that goods imported contrary to such condition or restriction 

 shall be prohibited imports : And whereas it is desirable to 

 prohibit the importation into the Commonwealth of the plumage 

 and skins of non-edible birds in cases where the exportation 

 thereof is prohibited in any country in which the particular birds 

 are indigenous or have been acclimatized : Now therefore I, 

 William Humble, Earl of Dudley, the Governor-General 

 aforesaid, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive 

 Council, do hereby proclaim that, whenever the Governor- 

 General, by notification in the Gazette, notifies that the 

 exportation of the plumage or skins of any specified non-edible 

 bird is prohibited in any specified country in which that bird is 

 indigenous or has been acclimatized, the importation into the 

 Commonwealth of the plumage and skins of the bird specified 

 in the notification shall be prohibited, unless in any particular 

 case it is proved to the satisfaction of the Comptroller-General 

 of Customs that the plumage or skins were exported from the 

 country specified in the notification before the exportation 

 thereof was prohibited, or that the plumage or skins were 

 imported from and were the produce of some country from 

 which the exportation thereof was not prohibited, or unless the 

 Comptroller-General is satisfied that the plumage or skins were 

 imported for educational or scientific purposes." 



