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expenses  of  the  Board  of  Immigration,  the  same  to  be  available  for  ex- 
penditure from  time  to  time  as  shall  be  determined  by  the  Board  of  Immi- 
gration with  approval  of  the  Governor;  and  one-fourth  of  said  fund  is 
hereby  appropriated  fcr  and  shall  be  used  for  the  development,  conserva- 
tion, improvement  and  utilization  of  the  natural  resources  of  the  Ter- 
ritory, the  same  to  be  made  available  for  expenditure  at  such  times  and  in 
such  manner  as  a board  of  three  persons  appointed  as  provided  in  Section 
80  of  the  Organic  Act  shall,  with  the  approval  of  the  Governor,  determine. 
Section  6.  This  Act  shall  be  in  effect  from  the  date  of  its  approval, 
and  relate  retrospectively  to  give  full  effect  to  the  provisions  herein  con- 
tained with  respect  to  taxes  for  the  first  taxation  period  hereunder;  and 
shall  continue  in  force  to  and  until  the  thirty-first  day  of  December,  1911; 
provided,  that  all  taxes  assessed  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  which 
shall  remain  unpaid  at  the  end  of  said  period  shall  be  subject  to  collec- 
tion and  enforcement  in  the  same  manner  as  though  all  the  provisions  of 
this  Act  were  still  in  force  with  respect  thereto. 
Approved  this  22nd  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1509. 
WALTER  F.  FREAR, 
Governor  of  the  Territory  of  Hawaii. 
EXECUTIVE  ORDER. 
It  is  hereby  ordered  that  the  following  islets  and  reefs,  namely: 
Cure  Island,  Pearl  and  Hermes  Reef,  Lysianski  or  Pell  Island, 
Laysan  Island,  Mary  Reef,  Dowsetts  Reef,  Gardiner  Island,  Two 
Brothers  Reef,  French  Frigate  Shoal,  Neckar  Island,  Frost  Shoal 
and  Bird  Island,  situated  in  the  Pacific  Ocean  at  and  near  the  ex- 
treme western  extension  of  the  Hawaiian  archipelago,  between 
latitudes  twenty-three  degrees  and  twenty-nine  degrees  north, 
and  longitudes  one  hundred  and  sixty  degrees  and  one  hundred 
and  eighty  degrees  west  from  Greenwich,  and  located  within  the 
area  segregated  by  the  broken  lines  shown  upon  the  diagram 
hereto  attached  and  made  a part  of  this  order,  are  hereby  reserved 
and  set  apart,  subject  to  valid  existing  rights,  for  the  use  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture  as  a preserve  and  breeding  ground  for 
native  birds.  It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to  hunt,  trap,  capture, 
wilfully  disturb,  or  kill  any  bird  of  any  kind  whatever,  to  take  the 
eggs  of  such  birds  within  the  limits  of  this  reservation  except 
under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  rfiay  be  prescribed  from  time 
to  time  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture.  Warning  is  expressly 
given  to  all  persons  not  to  commit  any  of  the  acts  herein  enumer- 
ated and  which  are  prohibited  by  law. 
This  reservation  to  be  known  as  the  Hawaiian  Islands  Reserva- 
tion. 
Theodore  Roosevelt. 
The  White  House,  February  3.  1909. 
