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PUBLIC LAW 580-JULY 17, 1952

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"(1) in respect of any of the following birds (other than anysuch bird which, whether or not raised in captivity, is a wild bird): chickens (including hens and roosters), turkeys, guinea fowl, geese, ducks, pigeons, ostriches, rheas, English ring-necked pheasants, and pea fowl; " (2) to any importation for scientific or educational purposes; "(3) to the importation of fully-manufactured artificial flies used for fishing; "(4) to the importation of birds which are classifiable under paragraph 1682; and " (5) to the importation of live birds. " (d) Notwithstanding subparagraph (b), there may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in each calendar year the following quotas of skins bearing feathers: "(1) For use in the manufacture of artificial flies used for fishing: (A) not more than 5,000 skins of grey jungle fowl (Gallus sonneratii), and (B) not more than 1,000 skins of mandarin duck (Dendronessa galericulata); and "(2) For use in the manufacture of artificial flies used for fishing, or for millinery purposes, not more than 45,000 skins, in the aggregate, of the following species of pheasant: Lady Amherst pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera), Reeves pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii), blue-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum), and brown-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum). For the purposes of this subparagraph any part of a skin which has been severed shall be considered to be a whole skin. "(e) No article specified in subparagraph (d) shall be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption except under a permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of subparagraph (d) (including regulations providing for equitable allocation among qualified applicants of the import quotas established by such subparagraph). Whenever the Secretary of the Interior finds that the wild supply of any species mentioned in subparagraph (d) is threatened with serious reduction or with extinction, he shall prescribe regulations which provide (to such extent and for such period as he deems necessary to meet such threat) — "(1) in the case of grey jungle fowl or mandarin duck, for the reduction of the applicable import quota; or "(2) in the case of any species of pheasant, for the reduction of the import quota established for pheasants, for the establishment of a subquota for such species of pheasant, or for the elimination of such species from the import quota for pheasants, or any combination thereof. The authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior by the preceding sentence to reduce any import quota shall include authority to eliminate such quota. "(f) Any article of a kind the importation of which is prohibited or subjected to a quota by subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) and which is in the United States shall be presumed for the purposes of seizure and forfeiture to have been imported in violation of law and shall be seized and forfeited under the customs laws unless such presumption is satisfactorily rebutted; except that such presumption shall not apply to articles in actual use for personal adornment or for scientific or educational purposes. Any article so forfeited may (in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations as

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