204 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



See note on approitriation for enforcement of this section under section 

 244 of this act set forth below. 



Marking of packages containing bodies or plumage of game animals or game 

 or other wild birds. 



Sec. 243. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, 

 or parts thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when 

 shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and 

 clearly marked, so that the name and address of the shipper, and the 

 nature of the contents, may be readily ascertained on an inspection of 

 the outside of such package. 



Act March 4, 1909. c. 32^. s. 243. 35 Stat. 1137. 



This section is a part of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the 

 penal laws of the United States," cited above, incorporating therein 

 provisions of section 4 of act May 25. 1900. c. .553, 31 Stat. ISS. which 

 section is expressly repealeil by section 341 of sjiid act March 4. 1909. 



See note on appropriation for enforcenient of this section under section 

 244 of this act .set forth below. 



Penalty for violations of sections 241-244. 



Sec. 244. For each evasion or violation of any provision of the 

 three sections last preceding, the shipper shall be fined not more than 

 two hundred dollars; the consignee knowingly receiving such articles 

 so ship])ed and transported in violation of said sections shall be fined 

 not more than two hundred dollars; and the carrier knowingly carry- 

 ing or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall ])e fined 

 not more than two hundred dollars. 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 244. 35 Stat. 1138. 



This section is a \mrt of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the 

 penal laws of the United States." cited above, incoriwrating therein 

 provisions of section 4 of act May 25, 190O, c. 553, 31 Stat. IKS. which 

 section is expressly repealed by section 341 of said act March 4. 1900. 



Appropriations for the enfoirenient of this and the three precedinsi 

 sections of this act are made in the ajrricultnr.il apiu'opriation acts for 

 the fiscal years 1911 and thereafter. The provisions of the act for the 

 fiscal year 1913 are set forth on p. 22(». iiost. Previous to the incorpora- 

 tion of sections 2-4 of act May 25. 1900, in this and the three preceding 

 se<*tions of this act, appropriations were made in the agricultural apjiro- 

 priation acts for the enforcement of sections 2-!> of that act. 



ACT MAY 11. 1908. c. 162. An act to amend an act entitle<l " \n Act for the 

 I>rotection of game in Alaska, and for other i)uri)oses," ai»provetl .Tune 

 sevetUh, nineteen hundred and two. (35 Stat. 102.) 



Destruction of game animals or birds in Alaska, with certain exceptions, pro- 

 hibited; "game animals" defined; laws relating to fur seal, etc., not 

 affected by act; game killed during close season not to be shipped or sold. 



That ;iii .Vet entitled "An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, 

 and for othei- purposes." approved June seventh, nineteen hundred 

 and two, be amended to read as foHows: 



"■ From and after tJte passage of this Act the wanton destruction of 

 wild game animals or wild birds. ex<'ept eagles, ravens, and cormo- 

 rants, the tlestiiiction of nests aiul eggs of sudi birds, or the killing of 

 any wild liirds, other than game birds, except, eagles, for the purpo.ses 

 of .selling the same or the skins or any part thereof, except as herein- 

 after provided, is hereby )>rohibited. 



"Ga.mk i)i;i'Inei). — The term 'game animals" shall include deer, 

 moose, caribou, moimtain sheep, mountain goats, brown bear, sea 

 lions, and walrus. The tcrui 'game birds' shall include waterfowl, 



