BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS 

 fees are usually required of hunters, and the moneys 

 thus collected form the basis of a fund used for paying 

 the wardens and meeting the other expenses incident 

 to the game law enforcement. 



The Lacey Law. — The Federal Government is tak- 

 ing a share of the responsibility in preserving the 

 wild life of the Union. 



On July 2, 1897, Congressman Lacey introduced in 

 the House a bill to prohibit the export of big game 

 from some of the Western States. In 1909 amend- 

 ments were made to the Lacey Law, one of which 

 prohibited the shipment of birds or parts thereof 

 from a State in which they had been illegally killed, 

 or from which it was illegal to ship them. The en- 

 forcement of this by Federal officers has been most 

 efficacious in breaking up a great system of smuggling 

 Quails, Grouse, Ducks, and other game birds. 



Federal Migratory Bird Law. — Probably the most 



important game law as yet enacted in the United 



States is the one known as the Federal Migratory 



Game Law or the McLean Law. A somewhat ex- 



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