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of Colorado, on July 2, 1897, 1 and referred to the Committee on 

 Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game. As originally pre- 

 pared, it was intended merely to prevent the shipment of deer, elk, 

 antelope, bison, or Rocky Mountain sheep from Colorado, Wyoming, 

 and Utah. Under its provisions any person, railroad or express com- 

 pany, or other common carrier who received such game for transpor- 

 tation, unless the export was permitted by the laws of the State from 

 which the shipment was made, was liable to a penalty of $100 to 

 $1,000. 2 The bill was, however, materially modified a few months 

 later, and reintroduced in the Senate on January 18, 1898. It was 

 broadened so as to prohibit interstate traffic in game killed in violation 

 of local laws from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, 

 and the game list was considerably extended by including certain 

 specified game birds and 'other waterfowl,' so that it really covered a 

 number of birds. The penalty was also changed so as to conform to 

 section 10 of the Interstate-commerce Act. 3 The bill failed to pass, 

 and was introduced for the third time early in the first session of the 

 Fifty-sixth Congress, on December 15, 1899, and was referred to the 

 Committee on Interstate Commerce. No changes were made in the 

 wording, which was as follows: 



A Bill (S. 1680) to regulate the shipment of wild game from one State to another. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express 

 company, or other common carrier, or its officers, agents, or servants, to receive for 

 shipment or transportation, or for any person or corporation to ship or offer to any 

 common carrier for shipment, from any place within any of the States or Territories of 

 the United States or District of Columbia, to any place without any of the States or 

 Territories of the United States or District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, for 

 sale, for market, or for storage, any moose, elk, deer, buffalo or bison, caribou, ante- 

 lope, mountain sheep, or mountain goats, or any parts thereof, or any wild turkey, 

 prairie chicken, or pinnated grouse, sage hen, Mongolian or ringneck pheasant, 

 grouse, "pheasant or partridge, quail, wild goose, duck, brant, swan, woodcock, snipe, 

 rail, plover, or other waterfowl: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall pro- 

 hibit the shipment of any wild game, animals, or birds, or parts of the same that may 

 be expressly authorized or permitted by the laws of the State in and from which the 

 shipment is made, if the same is conspicuously labeled "wild game," on which label 

 shall be stated the kind and quantity of said wild game, animals, or parts of the same, 

 and the date and place of shipment, and the name or names of both the consignor and 

 the consignee, a copy of which label shall be kept on file by the common carrier at 

 the place from which said wild game, animals, or birds, or parts of the same, are 

 shipped. 



Sec. 2. That any person or corporation guilty of violating the provision of this sec- 

 tion shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in section ten of the Act to regu- 

 late interstate commerce; and the Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby given 

 jurisdiction in the matter of the transportation of game as in other matters affecting 

 traffic between the States. 



1 Cong. Record, XXX, pt. 2, p. 2198. 



2 Forest and Stream, XLIX, p. 328, October 23, 1897. 

 3 Ibid., L, p. 81, January 29, 1898. 



