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and publish all needful rules and regulations for 
carrjTing out the purposes of this Act, and shall 
expend for said purposes such sums as Congress 
may appropriate therefor. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any per Permits 
son or persons to import into the United States any portation 
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foreign wild animal or bird, except under special 
permit from the United States Department of 
Agriculture ; provided, that nothing in this section 
shall restrict the importation of natural history 
specimens for museums or scientific collections, or 
the importation of certain cage birds, such as 
domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other species 
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as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. 
The importation of the mongoose, the so-called 
“flying foxes” or fruit bats, the English sparrow, 
the starling, or such other birds or animals as the 
Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time 
declare injurious to the interests of agriculture or 
horticulture, is hereby prohibited, and such species 
upon arrival at any of the ports of the United 
States shall be destroyed or returned at the expense 
of the owner. The Secretary of the Treasury is 
hereby authorized to make regulations for carrying 
into effect the provisions of this section. 
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any per- inter- 
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son or persons to deliver to any common carrier, or 
for any common carrier to transport from one State 
or Territory to another State or Territory, or from 
the District of Columbia or Alaska to any State 
or Territory, or from any State or Territory to the 
