134 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 212, 213. 1878.. European steamcrs, and in which to examine the baggage of such passengers, and for this purpose and for the extension of the sea-wall on Appropriation. the present barge-office site thesum of two hundred and ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not Cession of site. otherwise appropriated: Provided : That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended in the construction of the said building until the city of New York shall have conveyed to the United States the small triangular piece of land, being that portion of the grounds commonly known as the Battery, in the city of New York, lying westwardly of and adjoining the land now belonging to the United States, and between such lands and the slip or basin in said Battery known as the New Whitehall Boat Slip, as authorized by the senate and assembly of New York by act of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, _ Ll¤¤i©<>f¤X1><¤¤d· chapter three hundred and twenty, laws of New York: And provided, ‘““'°· That no expenditure shall be made or authorized for the completion of this work, including the cost of the additional land, beyond the said sum of two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Approved, June 15, 1878. I June 15, 1878. CHAP. 213.-An act for the preservation of game and protection of birds in the ———-——-·— District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Game- season States of Amerika in Congress assembled, That no person shall kill or f°’— expose for sale, or have in either his or her possession, either dead or Quail; alive, any partridge otherwise quail, between the first day of February and the first day of November, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. Pheasant; Sec. 2. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any pheasant, otherwise ruffed grouse, between the first day of February and the first day of August, under a penalty of [ive dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. Wvvdcvck; Sec. 3. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any woodcock, between the nrst day of February and the first day of July, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. Prairie-chicken; Sec. 4. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any prairiechicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, between the nrst day of February and the nrst day of September under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. Snipe; Sec. 5. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any snipe, or plover, between the first day of May and the nrst day of September, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession Ducks, wild Sec. 6. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 8°°°°i her possession, either dead or alive, any wild duck, wild goose, or wild brandt, between the first day of April and the iirst day of September, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed on in possession. Rails, reed-birds; Sec. 7 . That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any water-rail, or ortolan, or reedbird, or rice-bird, between the first day of February and the first day of September, under a penalty of two dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. Venison; Sec. 8. That no person shall expose for sale or have in his or her possession, any deer-meat, or venison, between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of August, under a penalty of twenty cents for each and every pound of deer-meat so exposed for sale or had in possession. Birds not to be Sec. 9. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or killed- her possession, dead, at any time any turkey-buzzard, wren, sparrow, blue-bird, humming—bird, blue jay, robin or migratory thrush, wood or
