FISH AND GAME LAWS, 
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flight, thereby enabling the department to select 
and designate suitable districts for different 
portions of the country, and it shall be un- 
lawful to shoot or by any device kill or seize 
and capture migratory birds within the pro- 
tection of this law during said closed seasons, 
and any person who shall violate any of the 
provisions or regulations of this law for the 
protection of migratory birds shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more 
than $100 or imprisoned not more than ninety 
days, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
The Department of Agriculture, after the 
preparation of said regulations, shall cause the 
same to be made public, and shall allow a 
period of three months in which said regula- 
tions may be examined and considered before 
final adoption, permitting, when deerned proper, 
public hearings thereon, and after final adop- 
tion shall cause the same to be engrossed and 
submitted to the president of the United States 
for approval ; provided, however, that nothing 
herein contained shall be deemed to affect or 
interfere with the local laws of the states and 
territories for the protection of nonmigratory 
game or other birds resident and breeding 
within their borders, nor to i)revent the states 
and territories from enacting laws and regula- 
tions to promote and render efficient the 
regulations of the Department of Agriculture 
provided under this statute. 
Whereas, The Department of Agriculture has 
duly prepared suitable regulations to give effect to 
the • foregoing provisions of said act and after the 
preparation of said regulations has caused the same 
to be made public and has allowed a period of three 
months in which said regulations might be exam- 
