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officers of the customs. Packages of specimens addressed to the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution, or the U.S. 

 National Museum, if properly marked, may be shipped without permit and 

 without examination. Packages addressed to individuals, whether officers 

 of Executive Departments or not, must be accompanied by permit. 



5. Live Animals and Birds 



Consignments of live animals or birds for exhibition or propagation must 

 be accompanied by permits, except as stated in Regulation 6. Consignments 

 offered for shipment without permit will not be refused transportation, but 

 may- be forwarded to Seattle or San Francisco and held there at owner's risk 

 and expense until permits are obtained. 



6. Parks excepted 



Under the provisions of Section 6, live animals and birds consigned to 

 the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., are not subject to the Act. 

 Live animals other than moose and brown bear (not exceeding 3 in one 

 consignment) and live birds (not exceeding 25 in one consignment) may be 

 shipped without permit to the following public zoological parks, if shipped 

 directly to said parks and not to some agent :-- 



Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 

 Lincoln Park, Chicago. 

 Menagerie of Central Park, New York. 

 New York Zoological Society. 

 Zoological Society, Philadelphia. 



Consignments for these parks which exceed the above-mentioned limits 

 must be accompanied by regular permits in all cases. 



7. Shipment 



Hides, skins, heads, horns, tropliies, specimens, live game animals, or 

 game birds shipped from Alaska to other ports of the United States or to 

 foreign ports must not be accepted for transportation unless shipped via 

 Seattle, Wash., or San Francisco, Cal., to be there subject to examination by 

 officers of the customs or representatives of this Department. 



8. Reserved Rights of Department 



The Department expressly reserves the right to restrict the number of 

 each kind of game animal which may be shipped under permit (within the 



