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migratory ducks from sunset to half an hour before sunrise from December 5 to December 31, inclusive, 1918, on said land when such migratory ducks are committing or are about to commit serious injury to the rice and it is necessary to kill such migratory ducks in order to protect the rice crop from damage;  but no such person or persons shall shoot at any such migratory ducks from any artificial or natural blinds; nor shall migratory ducks be killed or shot at from or in any field after the rice grown therein has been threshed or removed;  nor shall migratory ducks so killed be sold, offered for sale or shipped for purposes of sale, or be wantonly wasted or destroyed, but they may be used for food purposes by the persons hereby permitted to kill them, and they may be transported to hospitals and charitable institutions in Arkansas for use as food.

Each owner or lessee of land on which migratory ducks are so killed shall, on or before the 15th day of Jan [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] ^[[u]] ary, 1919, submit to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., a sworn statement of the number and kinds of migratory ducks killed each night pursuant to this permit on such land so owned or leased by him, the disposition of the ducks so killed, and the cost of the ammunition used in killing or attempting to kill them.

Secretary of Agriculture.

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