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HISTORICAL PART 
O. b. of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg: 
M. Vannerus, Charge d'affaires at Paris; 
0. b. of His Highness the Prince of Monaco: 
M. I. P. Depelley, Charge d'affaires at Paris; 
0. b of His Majesty the King of Portugal and Algarbia: 
M. T. DE SouzA, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotent- 
iary to the President of the French Republic; 
0. b. of His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, 
in the name of Sweden: 
M. H. Akerman, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipot- 
entiary to the President of the French Republic; and the 
On behalf on Swiss Federal Council: 
M. Charles Lardy, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipot- 
entiary to the President of the Republic of France: 
The said plenipotentiaries, after an intercommunication 
of their powers of attorney found good and sufficient, agreed 
upon the following clauses: 
Article 1. 
Birds useful to agriculture, particularly the insect-eaters 
and namely those birds enumerated in the first Schedule 
attached to the present Convention (which Schedule the Par- 
liaments of the several countries may enlarge by additions) 
shall be unconditionally protected by a prohibition forbidding 
them to be killed in any way whatsoever, as well as the 
destruction of their nests, eggs and broods. 
Until such time as this result shall be completely real- 
ised, the high contracting parties bind themselves to take, or 
to propose to their Parliaments to take, all such measures 
as are necessary to carry the resolutions contained in the 
following clauses into effect. 
