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THE REGULAR ARMY OF DESTRUCTION, WAITING FOR THE FIRST OF OCTOBER 

 Each Year 2,643,274 Will Armed Men Take the Field Against the Remnant of Wild Birds and Mammals in the United States 



(From "Our Vanishing Wild Life", page sj.) 



and line of migratory flight, thereby enabling the 

 department to select and designate suitable districts 

 for different portions of the country, and it shall 

 be unlawful to shoot or by any device kill or seize 

 and capture migratory birds within the protection 

 of this law during said closed seasons, and any per- 

 son who shall violate any of the provisions or regu- 

 lations of this law for the protection of migratory 

 birds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 

 fined not more than $100 or imprisioned not more 

 than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the 

 court. 



The Department of Agriculture, after the prepara- 

 tion of said regulations, shall cause the same to be 

 made public, and shall allow a period of three 

 months in which said regulations may be examined 

 and considered before final adoption, permitting, 

 when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and 

 after final adoption shall cause the same to be en- 

 grossed and submitted to the President of the United 

 States for approval: Provided, however, That noth- 

 ing herein contained shall be deemed to affect or 

 interfere with the local laws of the States and Ter- 

 ritories for the protection of nonmigratory game or 

 other birds resident and breeding within their bor- 

 ders, nor to prevent the States and Territories from 

 enacting laws and regulations to promote and render 



efficient the regulations of the Department of Agri- 

 culture provided under this statute. 



There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for tbe 

 purpose of carrying out these provisions, the sum of 

 $10,000. 



Approved, March 4, 1913. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 (March 1 — April 3.) 



Founder, 

 Archer M. Huntington. 



Life Member, 

 Samuel Pomeroy Colt. 



Annual Members. 



William H. Bliss, 

 Henry R Bond, 

 Rudolph E. Brimnow, 

 Donald Campbell, 

 Roger H. Clark, 

 Thomas Crimmins, 

 Lockwood de Forest, 

 Edward C. Delafield, 

 Edward D. Dowling, 

 Mrs. Herbert M. Harriman, 

 Arnold Knapp, 

 Mrs. Harry K. Knapp, Jr., 

 Harry Markoe, 



Bryant 



James Cowan Meem, 

 H. Siddons Mowbray, 

 Frank A. Munsey, 

 A. W. Parker, 

 Lawrence Priddy, 

 D. H. McAlpin Pvle, 

 Karl F. J. Seiferi, 

 T. P. Shonts, 

 Richard A. Strong, 

 Edward N. Tailer, 

 Robert C. Taylor, 

 Frank A. Vanderlip, 

 W. H. von Dreele, 

 Walker. 



