Annual Report, Volume 8The Commission, 1917 |
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acid acre agriculture annual applied attention Average number British Columbia bushels Canada Canadian CAVERHILL cent Civic Improvement League co-operation coal Commission of Conservation Committee Company connection cost court crop Dominion Dundas county economic electric exported farm farmers fertilizers fire fish waste fish-meal fisheries Forest Protective fur-bearing animals Government grain Hydro-Electric important increase industries infection interest investigation labour land lime live stock Long Sault Manitoba manufacture manure material matter ment methods municipal Niagara Niagara Falls nitrogen obtained Ontario organization Ottawa Percentage phosphorus plant food population Port Dover potash potatoes present problems production profitable proper province Quebec question railway regulations rural Saskatchewan scientific secure settlers Sir Clifford Sifton soil stock food supply survey syphilis timber tion tons Toronto Toronto General Hospital town planning United utilization venereal disease water-power wheat wood
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Page 277 - Be it enacted that 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 273 - Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which, under extraordinary conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or other interests in any particular community, may be issued by the proper authorities of the high contracting Powers under suitable regulations prescribed therefor by them respectively, but such permits shall lapse, or may be...
Page 288 - An Act to incorporate the Long Sault Development Company, and to authorize said company to construct and maintain dams, canals, power-houses and locks at or near Long Sault island for the purpose of improving the navigation of the St. Lawrence river and developing power from the waters thereof, and to construct and maintain a bridge, and carry on the manufacture of commodities.
Page 278 - States, and the United States commissioners, may within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. All fur seals and sea otters, or the skins thereof, killed, captured, transported, imported, offered for sale, or possessed contrary to the provisions of this act...
Page 272 - Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, 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, waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects.
Page 277 - ... included in the terms of the convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird.
Page 278 - It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried.
Page 278 - ... when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the conventions...
Page 278 - ... any State, Territory, or District to or through another State, Territory, or District, or to or through a...