202 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ACT MAY 25, 1900, c. 553. An act to enlarge the powers of the Department of 

 Agriculture, prohibit the transportation by interstate commerce of game 

 killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes. (31 Stat. 187.) 



Preservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of game birds and 

 other wild birds; collection and publication of information as to propaga- 

 tion, uses, and preservation of such birds; regulation for carrying out 

 purposes of act. 



That the duties and powers of the Department of Agriculture 

 are hereby enlarged so as to include the ] reservation, distribution, 

 introduction, and restoration of game birds and other wild birds. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to adopt such 

 measures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act 

 and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be 

 required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States 

 and Territories. The object and purpose of this Act is to aid in the 

 restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted 

 thereto where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to 

 regulate the introduction of Am.erican or foreign birds or animals in 

 localities where they have not heretofore existed. 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall from time to lime collect and 

 publish useful information as to the propagation, uses, and preserva- 

 tion of such birds. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all need- 

 ful rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act, 

 and shall expend for said purposes such sums as Congress may 

 appropriate therefor. 



Act May 25, 1900, c. 553, s. 1, 31 Stat. 187. 



The provisions of sections 2-4 of this act are incoi'porated in "An act 

 to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," act 

 March 4, 1909. c. 321, ss. 241-244, set forth below, and said sections of 

 this act are expressly repealed by section ,341 of said act March 4, 1909. 



Act June 3. 1902, c. 983, .32 Stat. 285. provides that the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall have the power to authorize the importation of eggs 

 of game birds for propagation, and prescribe necessary rules and regu- 

 lations governing the same. Said act is superseded by provisions of act 

 August 5, 1909, c. 6. 36 Stat. 75, prohibiting the importation of eggs of 

 game birds and eggs of birds not used for food, except scientific speci- 

 mens, and authorizing the importation of game birds under rules and 

 regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Bodies of game animals and game and song birds subject to laws of State, etc.. 

 into which transported. 



Sec. 5. I'hat all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game 

 animals, or game or song birds, the importation of which is pro- 

 hibited, or the dead bodies, or j)arts thereof, of any wild game ani- 

 mals, or game or song birds transported into any State or Territory, 

 or remaining tlierein for use. consumption, sale, or storage (herein, 

 shall upon arrival iu .«iich State v.v Territory be subject to the opera- 

 tion and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the 

 exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same man- 

 ner as though such animals or birds had been |)iO(luce(l in such State 

 or Territory, and shall not be exempt tlierefroui by reason of being 

 introduced therein in original packages or otherwise. This Act 

 .shall not prevent the iuiportation, transportation, or sale of birds or 

 bird plumage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard fowl. 



Act May 25, 1900, c. 553, s. 5. 31 Stat. 188. 



This section is jiartlally Incorporated in "An act to codify, revise, and 

 amend the penal laws of the United States," act March 4, 1909. c. 321, 



