W.H*B. 
a apeeifio permission oan be found la tha permit to do a particular thing 
or by natural inference without • training the terms of tha permit* It oao 
ba assumed that a certain thing la author lead than tha doing of that thing 
is unlawful. 
Sr* Seale inf ones tha bureau that paraoaa with duck* may ba seam 
on tha streets of Sacramento at all tlaaa and that we hare no say of 
interfsriEg. Ha also eon tends that they hare no discretion to refuse a 
permit to a person who has applied for one and that there la no provision 
for an investigation to determine the necessity for Issuing 
permits. As a matter of fUet* Sr. Seale and Sr. Carpenter have been 
employed on a par diem basis by the Bureau for the very purpose of rooking 
investigations and determining the necessity for issuing permits* and we 
have advised Sr. Seale that no permits should be issued unless absolutely 
necessary to protect the rise erope from the depredations of due he. Further- 
more, that no dusks should be killed under permits unless absolutely 
necessary to protect the orope* and that if any penaitce abuses tno pri- 
vileges granted by hie permit it should be revoked luaedlatoly* 
So person whether be be a riot grower* member of a rice grower’s 
finally of a bena fide employee of the rloe grower oaa kill or possess ducks 
under the authority c onferred by these permits unless the person tha perrur 
killing possess leg the ducks hoe bad issued to him and holds an 
Individual permit properly counts reigned by a duly authorised agent of to# 
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It is fur tiier contended that the Issuance of these permits opens 
the way to the shipment of ducks by permittees to their friends and for 
eomseroial purposes. Tou will observe that the permit specif ically 3tatae 
that the doom killed shall not be sold, offered for sale* or shipped for 
purposes of male, and that an permission is granted to transport the birds 
except to hospitals or charitable institutions in California for uss as food. 
It follows that no birds oaa be shipped or transported except to charitable 
institutions or hospitals in California for usa as food except that by 
natural inference a permittee hae tin right to carry or transport to hia 
Hrtwe for hia own use ducks that have been lawfully killed by him* He *ay uot 
even lawfully carry or transport birds that have been killed by some other 
permittee. Tou will also bear in mind that if any birds ara transported, 
o err led oar shipped In packages that the packages must be plainly marked* etc. 
as provided by Bsgulation 6 of the Treaty Act Regulations, and that no 
shipments can be node except to hospitals end aharitable.i I19tltut i0n9 * 
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You should carefully study the provisions of the permit with respect 
to the manner in which duoka may be killed* with particular referenda to the 
prohibition against killing them from natural or artificial blinds, while 
j on the water ."In any field after the rioe baa been thrashed or from which it 
, has been removed. i . J 
