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Article VIII 
The high contracting powers agree themselves to take, or propose to their 
respective appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures tor Insuring 
the execution of the present convent! . 
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 od the date of the ex- 
change of the ratifications. It shall remain in force for 15 years, and in the 
event of neither of the high contracting powers having given aotification 12 
months before the expiration of said period of 1"> years of its intention of 
terminating its operation, the convention shall continue to remain in force for 
1 year and so on from year to year. 
In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present con- 
vention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. 
Done at Washington this lGth day of August, 1916. 
[seal.] Robert Lansing. 
[seal.] Cecil Spring Rice. 
And whereas the said convention has heen duly ratified on both parts, and 
the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Wash- 
ington on the 7th day of December, lDlO: 
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 8th day of December in the year of our 
Lord 1916, and of the independence of the United States of America the 141st. 
[seal] Woodrow Wilson. 
By the President: 
Kobert Lansing, 
Secretary of State. 
MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT 8 
[Act of July 3, 1918. 40 Stat. 755— U. S. Code, Title 16, Sees. 703-711.] 
An Act To jrive effect to the convention between the United States and Great Britain for 
the protection of migratory birds concluded at Washington, August 16, 1916, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled; That this act shall be known by the 
short title of the "Migratory Bird Treaty Act." 
Sec. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations made as herein- 
after provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, 
capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase deliver 
for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport. 
cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means whatever. 
receive for shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at any time or in 
any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of the convention between 
the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds con- 
cluded August 1<>. 1916, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird. 
Sec 3. That, subject to J he provisions and in order to carry out the purposes 
of tbe convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from 
'Constitutionality of the treaty and act of July ::. 1918, sustained by the United States 
Supreme Court in a decision rendered Apr. 10. 1920, in the case of the state of M 
c. Ray P. Holland (252 D. S. 416) ; see also u. S. v. Lumpkin (276 Fed. 580). Canada, 
by an act of Parliament approved Ang. 29, 1017. gave full effect to the treaty and pro 
knulgated regulations thereunder May 11, 1918. The validity of the act of the Dominion 
Parliament was upheld by the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island in a decision 
(Michaelmas term, 1920) rendered in the case of the King v. Russell e. Clark. For full 
text of the Canadian migratory -bird treaty act and regulations, communicate with the 
Commissioner, National Parks of Canada. Ottawa. Ontario. 
