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The said Hungarian Minister at the same time informs 
the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister that he has no ob- 
jection to make to the exchange of papers nor to the leaving 
of room in the protocol for Portugal und Spain. ^ 
Then the first step towards codification was taken; the 
discussion of the Convention in Parliament, that fell into 
periods of Cabinet, parliamentary and constitutional crises 
respectively. 
The draft of the Act, with it appended motivation (dated 
March 23, 1904), was presented to the House by Bela 
Tallian, the successor of IgnAcz Daranyi: after having 
been discussed by the Economical Committee it was laid 
before the House on Aug. 8 of the same year. It was read 
a third time without amendments and sent over to the Upper 
House for ratification or rather approval ; there it was accepted 
without demur. 
The Act that had been accepted by one factor of con- 
stitutional legislation was then presented to His Majesty the 
King for ratification. 
Finally, on June 9, 1906, the Premier of the new con- 
stitutional Cabinet, Dr. Alexander Wekerle, informed the 
Minister of Agriculture, IgnAcz Daranyi, who had resumed 
his former position, that His Majesty had, as far back as 
Jan, 26, 1906, sanctioned the Act dealing with the codification 
of the International Convention for the Protection of Birds, 
and that, under the same date (June 9, 1906) the said Con- 
vention should be incorporated in the „Corpus Juris'" of 
Hungary as Act I of 1906. And this was carried out in 
effect. 
Those who had cooperated and taken pains to aid the 
cause had the delight of knowing that they had helped to 
1 Hung. Mill. Agr. 5431/eIn. Sept. 18, 1905. 
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