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HISTORICAL PART 
incorporate the first absolutely legal document dealing with 
the International Protection of Birds in the „Corpus Juris" 
of their country, a work done in the service of humanitar- 
ianism and of inestimable value to agriculture and forestry* 
The translation of the said Act dealing with the Inter- 
national Convention, and including the full text of the same, 
is as follows: 
ACT I OF 1906 
concerning the codification of the International Convention 
for the Protection of Birds useful to Agriculture signed at 
Paris on March ig, igo2 as well as of the two schedules 
forming the appendices of the same. 
(Sanctioned on Jan. 26, 1906. — The papers relating to the Convention 
were exchanged at Paris on December 6, 1905). 
§ 1. 
The International Convention for the Protection of Birds 
useful to Agriculture signed at Paris on March 19, 1902 is, 
together with its two appendices, herewith incorporated in 
the laws of the country 
Convention 
for the protection of birds useful to agriculture. 
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia etc 
and Apostolic King of Hungary, in the name of His Highness 
Prince Liechtenstein as well; His Majesty the German Em- 
peror, King of Prussia, in the name of the German Empire; 
His Majesty the King of the Belgians; His Majesty the King 
of Spain, and, in his name, Her Majesty the Queen-Regent 
of the Kingdom; the President of the French Republic; His 
