of pax villin the time specified MIT IT IS. I have the honor to Joer tenterament that the time of the ecmission may be completed exchange of notes from May 11, 1915, to January fout foux, whication in writing, of the same date as this. wak your govemment receives the suggestion favorably, will be PATEN ONE & Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the 1990. and I da, be glad to receive your assurance that it will VA 20 MINIGOs or your Government also. I ran the honor to be, with the highest consideration. Your y's mod ooedient servant, 11.2 Vizcellency ROBERT LANSING Ambassador of Great Britain. Cu AruUR SPRING-RICE, The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.] BRITISH EMBASSY, Washington, November 3, 1915. I have honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of this day's date in which you state as follows: It not having been found feasible to complete the international commission provided for in the treaty of September 15, 1914, be ween the United States and Great Britain, looking to the advancenent of the general cause of peace, within the time specified in the reaty, which expired on May 10, 1915, I have the honour to suggest or the consideration of your Government that the time within which the organization of the commission may be completed be xtended by an exchange of notes from May 10, 1915, to January 1916. Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, hat your Government receives the suggestion favourably, will be egarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to he extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that t will be so regarded by your Government also". I have the honour to inform you in reply that His Majesty's Government accepts this suggestion made by the United States Government and that they regard the exchange of to-day's Notes is sufficient to give effect to the extension. I have the honour to be, With the highest consideration, CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS.1 Signed at Washington August 16, 1916; ratification advised by the Senate August 29, 1916; ratified by the President September 1, 1916; ratified by Great Britain October 20, 1916; ratifications exchanaged at Washington December 7, 1916; proclaimed December 8, 1916. 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 State of Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416; United States v. Samples, 258 Fed. 479; United States v. Thompson, 258 Fed. 257: United States v. Selkirk, 258 Fed. 775 United States v. Rockefeller, 260 Fed. 346; United States v. Fuld Store Co., 262 Fed. 836. in force for a period of five years; and it shall thereafter remain in force until twelve months after one of the High Contracting Parties have given notice to the other of an intention to terminate it. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty and have affixed thereunto their seals. Done in duplicate at Washington on the 15th day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fourteen. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN AGREEMENT EFFECTED BY EXCHANGE OF NOTES EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSION UNDER ARTICLE II OF THE TREATY OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1914, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PEACE. Signed at Washington November 3, 1915. (Treaty Series, No. 602-A.) [The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.] Excellency: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 3, 1915. It not having been found feasible to complete the international commission provided for in the treaty of September 15, 1914, between the United States and Great Britain, looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, within the time specified in the treaty, which expired on May 10, 1915, I have the honor to suggest for the consideration of your Government that the time. within which the organization of the commission may be completed be extended by an exchange of notes from May 10, 1915, to January 1, 1916. Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, that your Government receives the suggestion favorably, will be regarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that it will be so regarded by your Government also. I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, His Excellency Sir: Sir CECIL ARTHUR SPRING-RICE, ROBERT LANSING Ambassador of Great Britain. [The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State.] BRITISH EMBASSY, Washington, November 3, 1915. I have honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of this day's date in which you state as follows: "It not having been found feasible to complete the international commission provided for in the treaty of September 15, 1914, be tween the United States and Great Britain, looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, within the time specified in the treaty, which expired on May 10, 1915, I have the honour to suggest for the consideration of your Government that the time within which the organization of the commission may be completed be extended by an exchange of notes from May 10, 1915, to January 1. 1916. Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, that your Government receives the suggestion favourably, will be regarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that it will be so regarded by your Government also". I have the honour to inform you in reply that His Majesty's Government accepts this suggestion made by the United States Government and that they regard the exchange of to-day's Notes as sufficient to give effect to the extension. I have the honour to be, With the highest consideration, CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS.1 Signed at Washington August 16, 1916; ratification advised by the Senate August 29, 1916; ratified by the President September 1, 1916; ratified by Great Britain October 20, 1916; ratifications exchanaged at Washington December 7, 1916; proclaimed December 8, 1916. (Treaty Series, No. 628; 39 Statutes at Large, 1702.) ARTICLES. I. Migratory birds included in terms of convention. II. Close seasons. III. Close season on specified migratory game birds for 10 years. IV. Special protection for wood and eider ducks. V. Taking of nests or eggs prohibited. VI. Shipment or export of migratory birds or their eggs. VII. Permits to kill migratory birds in particular communities. VIII. Measures for executing convention. XI. Ratification; duration. 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 State of Missouri v. Holland, 252 U. S. 416; United States v. Samples, 258 Fed. 479; United States v. Thompson, 258 Fed. 257; United States v. Selkirk, 258 Fed. 775 United States v. Rockefeller, 260 Fed. 346; United States v. Fuld Store Co., 262 Fed. 836. 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, but are nevertheless in danger of extermination through lack of adequate protection during the nesting season or while on their way to and from their breeding grounds; The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of saving from indiscriminate slaughter and of insuring the preservation of such migratory birds as are either useful to man or are harmless. have resolved to adopt some uniform system of protection which shall effectively accomplish such objects and to the end of concluding a convention for this purpose have appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States; and His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., etc., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington; 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 adopted the following articles: ARTICLE I. The High Contracting Powers declare that the migratory birds included in the terms of this Convention shall be as follows: 1. Migratory Game Birds: (a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. (b) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. (c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules and sora and other rails. (d) Limicolae or shorebirds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock and yellowlegs. (e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons. 2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobolinks, catbirds, chicadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax-wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 3. Other Migratory Nongame Birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shearwaters, and terns. |