STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
SIMEON E. BALDWIN
GOVERNOR
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Pursuant to the laws of this State requiring that
some day in the Spring of each year be set apart for
the purposes below described, I designate Friday, the
eighteenth day of April, 1913, as
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and I direct the teachers in all our public schools to
make it the occasion of explaining to their classes
why this anniversary has been constituted, and what
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I urge also the people of the State at large to give
some thought, upon the day hereby appointed, to
what they each can do to promote the culture of trees
and the protection of birds; remembering that, small
as Connecticut is, her geographical position, assuring
a climate belonging partly to the North and partly to
the South, brings within her territory more varieties
of trees and birds than are found in any other State
in the American Union.
The Congress which this month has come to a
close has passed a law prepared and ably advocated
by one of the senators from this State, to promote the
safety of birds in their annual flights of migration
throughout the United States. Let the people of
Connecticut give to this Act not only their obedience,
but their sympathetic support.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at the Capitol in Hartford,
this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and thirteen, and the independence of the United States, the one hundred and
thirty-seventh.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.
By His Excellency’s Command:
ALBERT PHILLIPS,
Secretary.



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