on: Ohio State Seal]

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the
Great Seal of the State to be affixed at Columbus, this fifteenth day
of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and
Thirteen.

By the Governor:

JAMES M. COX.

CHAS. H. GRAVES
Secretary of State.

[Illustration: (signed) James M. Cox]

SECTION 358. The state commissioner of common schools shall issue each
year a manual for arbor day exercises. The manual shall contain matters
relating to forestry and birds, including a copy of such laws relating
to the protection of song and insectivorous birds as he deems proper.
He shall transmit copies of the manual to the superintendents of city,
village, special and township schools and to the clerks of boards of
education, who shall cause them to be distributed among the teachers of
the schools under their charge. On arbor day, and other days when
convenient, the teachers shall cause such laws to be read to the
scholars of their respective schools and shall encourage them to aid in
the protection of such birds.

SECTION 7688. Not later than April the governor of the state shall
appoint and set apart one day in the spring season of each year, as a
day on which those in charge of the public schools and institutions of
learning under state control, or state patronage, for at least two
hours must give information to the pupils and students concerning the
value and interest of forests, the duty of the public to protect the
birds thereof, and also for planting forest trees. Such a day shall be
known as Arbor Day.

SECTION 1409. No persons shall catch, kill, injure, pursue or have in
his possession either dead or alive, or purchase, expose for sale,
transport or ship to a port within or without the state a turtle or
mourning dove, sparrow, nuthatch, warbler, flicker, vireo, wren,
American robin, catbird, tanager, bobolink, blue jay, oriole, grosbeck
or redbird, creeper, redstart, waxwing, woodpecker, humming bird,
killdeer, swallow, blue bird, blackbird, meadow lark, bunting,
starling, redwing, purple martin, brown thresher, American goldfinch,
chewink or ground robin, pewee or phoebe bird, chickadee, fly catcher,
knat catcher, mouse hawk, whippoorwill, snow bird, titmouse, gull,
eagle, buzzard, or any wild bird other than a game bird. No part of the
plumage, skin or body of such bird shall be sold or had in possession
for sale.

SECTION 1410. No person sh