Academy through its editors or its council. The remaining three hundred 

 copies shall be turned over to the Academy to be disposed of as it may 

 determine. In order to provide for the preservation of the same it shall 

 be the duty of the Custodian of the State House to provide and place at the 

 disposal of the Academy one of the unoccupied rooms of the State House, 

 to be designated as the office of the Academy of Science, wherein said copies 

 of said reports belonging to the Academy, together with the original manu- 

 scripts, drawings, etc., thereof can be safely kept, and he shall also equip 

 the same with the necessary shelving and furniture. 



Sec. 4. An emergency is hereby declared to exist for the immediate 

 taking effect of this act, and it shall therefore take effect and be in force 

 from and after its passage. 



APPROPRIATION FOR 1915-1916. 



The appropriation for the publication of the proceedings of the Academy 

 during the years 1915 and 1916 was increased by the Legislature in the 

 General Appropriation bill, approved March 9, 1915. That portion of the 

 law fixing the amount of the appropriation for the Academy is herewith 

 given in full. 



For the Academy of Science: For the printing of the proceedings of 

 the Indiana Academy of Science twelve hundred dollars: Provided, That 

 any unexpected balance in 1915 shall be available for 1916, and that any 

 unexpended balance in 1916 shall be available in 1917. 



AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS 



AND EGGS. 



Sec. 602. Whoever kills, traps or has in his possession any wild bird, 

 or whoever sells or offers the same for sale, or whoever destroys the nest 

 or eggs of any wild bird, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 

 conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than 

 twenty-five dollars: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall 

 not apply to the following named birds: The Anatidae, commonly called 

 swans, geese, brant, river and sea duck; the Rallidae, commonly called rails, 

 coots, mud-hens gallinules; the limicolae, commonly called shore birds, surf 

 birds, plover, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and curlew; the Gallinae, 

 commonly called wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, quails and pheasants; 



