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Audubon Societies of the United States will be greatly obliged for your advice and 

 assistance in acconnplishing the end sought. Very respectfully, 



(Signed) Frank Bond, 

 Member of the National Committee of Audubon Societies. 



DEI'ARfMENT OF COMMERCK AND LahOR, LiGMT-HoUSE BoARD, 



Washington, D. C, October 14, 1904. 

 Commander William W. Kimball, U. S. N., 



Inspector Eighth L. H. District, New Orleans, La. 



Sir: — The Board incloses herewith a copy of a letter dated October 7, 1904, from 



Mr. Frank Bond, member of the National Committee of Audubon Societies, recoiimiend- 



ing that action be taken to suppress the destruction of native birds within the Chandeleur 



and Erroi Islands Light-house Reservations. 



The Board authorizes you, in accordance with this request, to post notices on these 



two light-house reservations, forbidding the shooting of birds thereon, and also to issue 



instructions to proper light- house employees to prevent trespassing on these reservations. 



Respectfully, 



(Signed) C. T. Hutchins, 



Captain, U. S. N., Naval Secretary. 



Okfice of Insi'ector, 8th District, 



New Orleans, La., October 21, 1904. 

 Mr. Thorwald Hansen, 



Keeper Chandeleur Light-House, Biloxi, Miss. 



Sir: — A copy of a letter of the Light-House Board, with its enclosure, is hereby for- 

 warded for your information and compliance. 



The Magnolia will post the reservations with sign-boards early in November; mean- 

 time put up such notices as you can arrange. 



Once a week, weather permitting, you or the Assistant Keeper will proceed by boat 

 to the southward as far as Freemason Island, and will take the names of all persons found 

 trespassing afloat or ashore, and the names of all vessels trespassing. You will warn off 

 trespassers and inform them that they and their vessels, sail-boats, schooners, power 

 boats or other craft will be reported to the U. S. District Attorney for prosecution or libel, 

 or both, as the case may be. 



You will report to this office all cases of trespassing observed, with such details as to 

 date, time and character of offense, as will give sufficient data for basing actions of pros- 

 ecution or of libel, or of both. 



It may be difficult to obtain a knowledge of the names and places of abode of tres- 

 passers, but the name of the vessel used by the trespassers can be readily obtained. 



You will note as far as possible the names of all light-draft vessels passing into 

 Chandeleur Sound, and will make it your duty to acquaint yourself with the trade and 

 character of such vessels, so as to know which are and which are not to be suspected of 

 intention to trespass. 



You will understand that shooting ashore or from vessels along the beaches of the 

 reservation, egging, landing on the islands without permission, and the taking of shells, 

 are all trespasses that render the doers liable to prosecution, and their vessels to libel in 

 the United States Courts. 



You will render to Captain Sprinkle, the Warden of the Breton Island Bird Pre- 

 serve, such aid in his duties as does not interfejfcwjth your own as Keeper of the Light, 

 and the Chandeleur and Errol Islands Reservation. Respectfully, 



(Signed) W. W. Kimball, 

 Commander, U. S. Navy, Inspector 8th L. H. District. 



