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a bill in the 61st Congress, for the protection of migratory 
birds in the United States; and the Secretary was instructed 
to send a copy of the resolution to each Senator and Repre¬ 
sentative from Wisconsin to the United States Congress: 
There has been introduced by Mr. Weeks in the House cf 
Representatives of the 61st Congress of the United States, a 
bill “To protect migratory birds in the United States” known 
as H. R. 10276, by the terms of which “geese, swans, brant, 
ducks, snipe, plover, woodcock, rain, pigeons and all other mi¬ 
gratory birds which, in their northern and southern migrations, 
pass through or do not remain permanently the entire year 
within the borders of any State or Territory shall hereafter 
be deemed to be within the custody and protection of the Gov¬ 
ernment of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or 
taken contrary to regulations hereinafter provided for.” 
These provisions are that the Department of Agriculture 
shall adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing closed 
seasons and declaring penalties for the violation of these regu¬ 
lations. 
Nothing contained in this bill is to interfere with laws of 
the States and Territories for the protection of game localized 
within their borders nor to prohibit their enacting laws to 
render efficient the regulations of the Department of Agriculture 
provided under this statute. 
This proposed law if enacted would remove one of the great¬ 
est obstacles to the efficient protection of birds, particularly 
game birds, by rendering the laws in force in all states uniform 
as to conditions, the absence of which uniformity now consti¬ 
tutes one of the strongest arguments used by those who desire 
spring shooting. Therefore 
Resolved , That the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts 
and Letters favors the passage of Bill H. R. 10276 to protect 
migratory birds in the United States and requests the Wiscon¬ 
sin members of Congress to vote for this bill and to use their 
influence to secure its passage and 
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Academy be instructed 
to mail a copy of these resolutions to each Senator and Repre¬ 
sentative from Wisconsin to the United States Congress. 
