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Land Office shall cancel same and thereupon 

 all rights acquired by said Association shall 

 terminate. 



Section 2. All Leases shall be recorded 

 in the county in which the leased area is 

 situated and after the record thereof the 

 lessee shall have the exclusive right to enter 

 upon, have, hold and occupy exclusively the 

 area included in such lease and shall have 

 the exclusive right to adopt such rules and 

 regulations as may be necessary for the exe- 

 cution of the purposes of this Act; provided, 

 nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit 

 or interfere with the authority of any peace 

 ofificer of the state of Texas or of the United 

 States to enter upon any such leased area for 

 the purpose of discharging any duty imposed 

 upon such officer by the laws of Texas or by 

 the laws of the United States. 



Section 3. After such lease has been 

 recorded it shall be unlawful for any person 

 whomsoever, except a representative, an 

 agent or an employe of such Association or a 

 peace officer of the state of Texas or of the 

 United States to enter upon such leased area 

 without the knowledge and consent of said 

 Association for the purpose of catching or 

 killing any bird or birds or for the purpose of 

 taking any bird or bird eggs or for the pur- 

 pose of destroying any bird nests or bird 

 eggs; it shall be unlawful for any person 

 whomsoever to catch, kill or maim any bird 

 or birds on any such leased area or to catch, 

 kill or maim any bird or birds on or above 

 said area by any means whatsoever even 

 though such person may be above or outside 

 of such leased area; it shall be unlawful for 

 any person whomsoever to discharge any 

 firearms or other explosive on or above any 

 leased area; or to land, tie or anchor any 

 fishing-boat within any such leased areas; 

 provided nothing herein shall be construed 



to prohibit any representative, agent or 

 employe of said Association from catching, 

 killing or destroying within any such leased 

 area any bird or birds and any animals that 

 may be known to prey upon bird-life or 

 bird eggs nor to prohibit such representative, 

 agent or employe from taking bird-eggs 

 and catching any bird or birds for propaga- 

 tion or conservation or scientific purposes 

 only, nor to prohibit persons from taking 

 refuge on any leased area on account of 

 storms. 



Section 4. Any person who shall violate 

 any of the provisions of this Act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 

 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 

 fine in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars 

 and not to exceed five hundred dollars or by 

 imprisonment in the county jail for a term 

 not less than ten days nor more than six 

 months or by both such fine and imprison- 

 ment. The provisions of this section shall be 

 construed to be cumulative of other statutes 

 upon the same subject and not to repeal any 

 other such statute. 



Section 5. The importance of the legis- 

 lation proposed and the short term of this 

 Special Session creates an emergency, and an 

 imperative public necessity exists that the 

 Constitutional rule requiring bills to be read 

 on three separate days in each House shall 

 be suspended and this bill be placed upon 

 third reading and final passage and that it 

 take effect from and after its passage, and 

 it is so enacted. 



It need only be added that the Directors 

 of the Association will, of course, take imme- 

 diate action looking to the future protec- 

 tion of these vast nurseries of our southern 

 water bird-life. 



ACTIVITIES OF THE BIRD CLUB OF LONG ISLAND 



The Sixth Annual Report of the 'Bird 

 Club of Long Island' was issued July i, 192 1. 

 It is a 30-page publication, with covers, and 

 contains much interesting material. It will 

 be remembered that this is the organization 

 of which Colonel Roosevelt was the founder 

 and first President. At his death Mrs. 

 Edward Mitchell Townsend, of Oyster Bay, 

 succeeded to the presidency, and the splendid 

 growth of the Club has been due largely to 

 her interest and initiative. Colonel Roose- 

 velt's daughter, Mrs. Ethel M. Derby, is the 

 active Secretary. 



The Report contains a number of articles, 

 among which we find discussed such subjects 



as 'Violations of Game Laws,' 'Extracts 

 from the Penal Code of the State of New 

 York,' 'Winter Feeding,' 'Nesting-Boxes and 

 Bird-Baths,' and 'Planting to Attract Birds.' 



The Treasurer's report shows an income of 

 $3,019.39 and expenditures of $2,964.19. 

 The Club is a strong-going institution with 

 energetic officers and a growing membership 

 containing an unusually large number of in- 

 fluential people. Mrs. Derby's very inter- 

 esting report as Secretary is as follows : 



"In presenting the report of the Work of 

 the Bird Club for the year 1920-21 I should 

 like to make all the members realize that the 

 work of the Club is entirely due to them and 



