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of Alaska may arrest without warrant any person found violating 

 any of the provisions of this Act or any of the reticulations herein 

 provided, and maj' seize any game, birds, or hides, and any traps, 

 nets, guns, boats, or other pharaphernalia used in the capture of 

 such game or birds and found in the possession of said person in or 

 out of Alaska, and any collector or deputy collector of customs, or 

 warden, or licensed guide, or any person authorized in writing by a 

 marshal shall have the power above provided to arrest persons found 

 violating this Act or said regulations and seize said property with- 

 out warrant to keep and deliver the same to a marshal or a deputy 

 marshal. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon 

 request of the governor or Secretary of Agriculture, to aid in carry- 

 ing out the provisions of this Act. 



Act May 11. 190S, c. 162, s. 7, 35 Stat. 105. 

 Bepeal of acts or parts of act in conflict with provisions of this act, 



" Sec. 8. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provi- 

 sions of this Act are hereby repealed." 



Act May 11, 1908, c. 162, s. 8, 35 Stat. 105. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 280. An act for tho protection of ganio in the Terri- 

 tory of Alaska. (r>6 Stat. 1360.) 



Open season for certain game birds extended. 



That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be lawful to 



kill gi'ouse. ptarmigan, shore birds, and waterfowl from September 



first to March first, both inclusive, anywhere in the Territory of 



Alaska. 



Act March 4, 1911, c. 280, 36 Stat. 1360. 



This act amends a provision of Act May 11, 1908, c. 162, s. 2, set forth 

 above. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 



Hunting, etc.. birds, or taking their eggs, on bird-breeding grounds, prohibited; 

 punishment for. 



Sec. 84. "\Mioever shall hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or 

 kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of any such bird, 

 on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or re- 

 served as breeding grounds for birds, by any law. proclamation, or 

 executive order, except under such rules and regulations as the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture may. from time to time, prescribe, shall be 

 fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more 

 than six months, or both. * 



Act March 4, 1909. c. 321, s. 84, 35 Stat. 1104. 



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

 penal laws of the United St:ites." cited above, Incon'oratine; the provi- 

 sions of act June 2S, 1906. c. 3565, set forth below, except a proviso 

 annexed thereto relating to the Black Hills Forest Reservation. 



Appropriations for the enforcement of this section are made in the 

 agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1911 and thereafter. 

 The provision of the act for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth below. 



ACT JUNE 28. 1906, c. 3565. An act to i)rotect birds and their eggs in game and 

 bird preserves. CM Stat. 5.36.) 



Hunting, etc., birds, or taking their eggs from bird-breeding grounds, pro- 

 hibited. 



That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, 

 willfully di.sturb. or kill any bird of any kind whatever or take the 

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