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ests in any particular community, may be issued by the proper authorities 
of the High Contracting Powers under suitable regulations prescribed therefor 
by them respectively, but such permits shall lapse, or may be canceled, at any 
time when, in the opinion of said authorities, the particular exigency has passed, 
and no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold, or offered for sate. 
ARTICLE VIII. 
The High Contracting Powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their 
respective appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures for insuring 
thf execution of the present Convention. 
ARTICLE IX. 
The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States 
of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by 
His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as 
soon as possible and the Convention shall take effect on the date of the exchange 
of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for fifteen years and in the event 
of neither of the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve 
months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its intention of 
terminating its operation, the Convention shall continue to remain in force for 
one year and so on from year to year. 
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have sinned the 
present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. 
Done at Washington this sixteenth day of August, one thousand 
nine hundred and sixteen. 
[seal. | Robert Lansing. 
[seal.] Cecil Spring Rice. 
And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both 
parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged 
in the City of Washington, on the seventh day of December, one 
thousand nine hundred and sixteen; 
Now. therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President 
of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention 
to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and 
clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the 
United States and the citizens thereof. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 
seal of the United States to be affixed. 
Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of December in 
the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hun- 
dred and forty-first. 
[seal.] Woodrow Wilson. 
By the President : 
Robert Lansing, 
Si crt tary of State. 
