TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL HITCHCOCK BILL, 

 AS IT SHOULD HAVE PASSED. 



A BILL 



To give effect to the convention between the United States and 

 Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, the ratifications 

 whereof were exchanged on the seventh day of December, nineteen 

 hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That unless and 

 except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided, 

 hunting, taking, capturing, killing, attempting to take, capture or 

 kill, possessing, offering for sale, selling, offering to purchase, pur- 

 chasing, delivering for shipment, shipping, causing to be shipped, de- 

 livering for transportation, transporting or causing to be transported 

 by any means whatever, receiving for shipment or transportation, or 

 exporting, at any time or in any manner, any migratory bird in- 

 cluded in the terms of the convention between the United States and 

 Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, or any part, 

 nest, or egg thereof, is prohibited. 



Sec. 2. That, subject to the provisions, and in order to carry 

 out the purposes of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is 

 authorized and directed, from time to time, to determine when, to 

 what extent, if at all, and by what means, having due regard to the 

 zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic 

 value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of 

 such birds, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow 

 the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, ship- 

 ment, transportation, and export of any of said birds, or parts, nests, 

 or eggs thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and 

 governing the same, in conformity with such determinations, which 

 regulations shall become effective when approved by the President. 



Sec. 3. That the shipment, transportation, or export to a for- 

 eign country of any birds, or parts or eggs thereof, taken, captured, 

 killed, shipped, or transported contrary to the laws of the State, Ter- 

 ritory, or District in which the same were taken, captured, killed, 

 shipped, or transported is prohibited. The importation of any birds, 

 or parts or eggs thereof, taken, captured, killed, shipped, or trans- 

 ported contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of 

 Canada in which the same were taken, captured, killed, shipped, or 

 transported is prohibited. 



Sec. 4. That persons appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act shall, with 

 respect thereto, have the same powers as are conferred by law on 

 marshals with respect to executing the laws of the United States. 

 Any such person shall have authority, without warrant, to search 



