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§ 9. Defines the exceptions which the respective States 
may make. 
§ 10. Binds the signatories to adapt their own laws to 
suit the Convention, within a period of three years from date. 
§11. Binds the signatories to communicate to each other 
any laws or municipal decrees relating to the matter in 
question. 
§ 12. Provides for the settling of all questions that may 
arise in connexion with the carrying into effect of the Con- 
vention. 
§ 13. Deals with the eventual acceptances later on of 
other States. 
§ 14. Deals with the date for the coming in force of the 
Convention and the conditions for withdrawal. 
§ 15. Deals with the sanctioning of the Convention and 
the interchange of documents. 
We have not published the full text of this draft of the 
Convention for the simple reason that the divergencies between 
the same and the text finally ratified are pointed out below. 
Before passing on to relate the further history of this 
draft, we must give an epitome of the memorial presented 
by the sportsmen of France to the French Minister of Agri- 
culture, the arguments adopted in which make it interesting 
and are characteristic. It occupies a position here because it 
owed its origin to the idea of holding the International Birds 
Protection Conference. 
It was presented by „L Union des Societes de Chasseurs 
de France", dated Paris, June 18, 1895, signed by the Sec. 
Jean Robert; and was annexed as a document to the archives 
of the „ Convention". 
The memorial deals with those birds of passage, which, 
in France, are treated as game: „les migrateurs qualifies 
gibier, ou traites comme tels"! 
