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TELEGRAM.

September 30, 1918.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE: Kindly send telegram given below to the following persons.

DAY RUSH. APPROPRIATION:

Carl Westerfeld,
Fish and Game Commission,
New Call Building,
San Francisco, California.

Alexander Wetmore,
Maxwell, California.

E. S. Cattron,
Willows, California.

Blanket Federal permission granted rice growers, members immediate families and employees in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Yola, and Yuba counties California to kill wild ducks from September thirtieth to October fifteenth inclusive nineteen eighteen in open fields of rice when necessary to protect rice crops from damage by ducks stop. No ducks to be shot at from artificial or natural blinds or from or in fields from which rice has been harvested stop. Ducks killed not to be sold,offered for sale, shipped for purposes of sale or be wantonly wasted or destroyed but may be used for food purposes by persons killing them and may be transported to hospitals and charitable institutions in California for use as food stop. Any package in which ducks are transported must have name and address of shipper and of consignee an accurate statement of number and kinds of ducks contained therein clearly and conspicuously marked on [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] outside thereof stop. Each owner or lessee of land on which ducks are killed must on or before October twenty-fifth submit sworn statement of number and kinds of ducks killed each day on such land, manner of disposition of ducks, and cost of ammunition used.stop. Make public foregoing [[strikethrough]] stop [[/strikethrough]]. Full text permit by mail.

HENDERSON.

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[[stamped]] CONFIRMATION OF TELEGRAM. [[/stamped]]