APPENDIX 111. 329 



{(l) STATE LAWS. 



1. All wild birds are the property of the State, hence: 



2. Killing birtLs is a privilege, not a right. 



3. State ownership of birds carries with it the riglit to impose 

 restrictions, hence : 



4. Birds may be i-aptiircd, possessed, transported, bought, or 

 sold only under such conditions as the State prescribes. 



5. Land-owners liave no more right to kill birds out of sea- 

 son tlian other persons, unless the law specifically grants tliis 

 privilege. 



{b) FEDERAL LAW. 



6. Birds are protected by the Federal law only when shipped 

 from or into a State whicli protects them by a local law. 



T. Birds killed or shipped contrary to law in any State cannot 

 lawfully be transported to other States. 



8. Birds brought into a State become subject to its laws in 

 the same manner and to the same extent as birds produced in 

 that State. 



9. Packages of birds shipped from one State to another must 

 be marked so as to show the name of the shipper and the nature 

 of the contents. 



10. Foreign birds can be imported into the United States only 

 under permit from the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 and birds declared injurious by the Secretary of Agriculture can- 

 not be imported into the United States or shipped from one 

 State to another. 



Simple as all these propositions may seem, they have l)een the 

 cause of much discussion. Most of them, however, have been 

 passed upon by the higher courts and are no longer open to 

 question. The right of the crown to all wild game was estab- 

 Mshed in England years ago, and the State ownership of game 

 now clearly stated in the laws of Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, 

 ^linnesota. Texas, and Wisconsin is an inheritance from the 

 Englisli couinioii law. The Su])rcme Court of tlie United States 

 lias uphcbl this claim as well as ilic i-iglit of tlic State* to projiibit 

 killing game for sale ( rj."> W S., ir»r») or (»\port (deer r.s\ 

 Connecticut, Kil C. S., .M!)). 



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