First -Sixth Biennial Report, Department of Game and Fish of the State of Alabama February 27, 1907 -September 30, 1918 ...

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Page 34 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act shall for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 32 - The present treaty 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.
Page 33 - ... shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent Jurisdiction...
Page 32 - August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 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.
Page 29 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following articles : ARTICLE I.
Page 33 - ... pursuant to this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Page 35 - That subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes of the convention, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, from time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of such birds, to determine when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means...
Page 35 - ... to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in accordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective when approved by the President.
Page 29 - WHEREAS many species of birds in the course of their annual migrations traverse certain parts of the United States and the Dominion of Canada; and WHEREAS many of these species are of great value as a source of food or in destroying insects which are injurious to forests and forage plants on the public domain, as well as to agricultural crops, in both the United States and Canada...
Page 36 - For the purpose of this regulation, each period of time herein prescribed as an open season shall be construed to include the first and last days thereof. Waterfowl (except wood duck, eider ducks, and swans), rails, coot...

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