WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. 
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XIII. 
WILD BIRDS PROTECTION. 
Mr. Henry Frederick, Hon. Secretary of the Breydon Wild Birds 
Protection Society, having brought before our Society the question 
of the extension of the close-time for shore birds to 31st August, 
about which his Society had already intended to memorialise the 
Norfolk County Council, it was decided on 22nd February- 1*98, 
that a separate Memorial on the subject be presented to the 
County Council from the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 
as follows : — 
TO THE CHAIRMAN, ALDERMEN, AND COUNCILLORS 
OP THE COUNTY COUNCIL POR THE ADMINISTRATIVE 
COUNTY OF NORFOLK. 
THE MEMORIAL of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
SHE WET! I a* follows:— 
Under and by virtue of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, the killing 
and taking of Wild Birds is prohibited between the 1st day of March and 
the 1st day of August in any year ; and such Act, as varied by the Local 
Government Act, 1888, empowers one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries 
of State upon application by the County Council of any Administrative 
County by Order to extend or vary the time during which the killing or 
taking of Wild Birds or any of them is so prohibited. 
Por the County of Norfolk no such Order extending or varying the period 
aforesaid has yet been obtained, and the close time therefore ends on the last 
da}- of July in each year. This date is fouud to be far too early to give 
the requisite protection to numerous species of Wild Birds; and your 
Memorialists, acting under the advice of Naturalists of repute, are desirous 
that the close time should be extended for the whole month of August, for 
all species of Wild Birds with the exception only of Wild Duck. 
If this Order be obtained, it will assimilate the law in the Administrative 
County of Norfolk to that prevailing in the Administrative County of East 
Suffolk; and besides giving the desired protection, it will also facilitate the 
working of the 'Wild Birds Protection Act in the parts where the two 
Counties adjoin, and especially so in the case of Breydon Water, part of 
which is in each such County. 
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