The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
COMMISSIONERS ON FISHERIES AND GAME 
321 STATE HOUSE 
Boston, Dec. 9, 1918 
COMMISSIONERS 
WILLIAM C. ADAMS GEORGE H. GRAHAM 
ARTHUR L. MILLETT 
ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMISSION 
William Brewster, Esq., 
145 Brattle St., 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Sir: 
On January 1 next the question will arise of issuing to 
you a permit to take birds, etc., for scientific purposes for the 
year 1919. 
We are sending under separate cover a copy of the 
Enabling Act relating to migratory birds, from which you will see 
that it is necessary for you to obtain a federal permit as well as 
one from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
In view of the fact that obtaining a federal permit is a 
condition precedent to your being able to utilize the permit which 
we would issue to you, we would advise that you immediately apply 
to the Biological Survey, Washington, D. C., for such a permit. 
Upon receiving notice from the Biological Survey that 
they have issued to you such permit, we will immediately forward to 
you one covering the state of Massachusetts. 
In the meantime we would say that we are writing to the 
Biological Survey notifying them that w^will issue to you a state 
permit providing that a federa 
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WCA/BB 
Chairman. 
