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of its counties have absolutely prohibited the killing of quail, as well 
as the shipment. 
Mr. Lame. How about it in Virginia? 
Mr. Merriam. I can not give you an authoritative answer myself. 
I would have to ask Doctor Palmer; but there is difficulty there in 
allowing game to be sold in the District. I think the Virginia game 
can be sold here in the District; and 1 think that prevents the enforce- 
ment in the usual way. 
In brief, Mr. Chairman, the demands under the Lacey Act, which 
never independently provided for, have used a great deal of our 
und. 
The Crarrman. Did we not increase that? Did we not give youa 
$10,000 increase one year? 
Mr. Merriam. You gave last year a $5,000 increase, and the 
expenditures last year under the Lacey Act alone have amounted to 
probably between $7,000 and $8,000 already, so that the increase did 
not provide even for the expenses under that one division; and we 
have employed no warden and we have paid no inspector. It has 
been office work and what field work we have been obliged to do in 
sending men to different places. 
Mr. Henry. Was not the increase of $10,000 to provide for all the 
extra cost? 
Mr. Merrtam. Yes; an increase of $10,000 as the work stands now, 
but all of the work is growing all along the line. Weask an increase 
of $12,000 to cover everything. If we are granted bureau organiza- 
tion, we are to organize with three divisions of coordinate rank—the 
three divisions we already have—and allot the appropriation in a more 
definite and specific way. The increase of $12,000 asked for was to be 
appropriated among the three divisions, which would be an average of 
$4,000 increase apiece, to meet the increasing demands. We are 
already spending vastly more than that on this game-preserve division, 
because we either have to do that or let the work drop. 
Mr. Scorr. In what way did the Lacey Act involve additional office 
expense ? 
Mr. Merriam. It was put on the Department of Agriculture, and 
the Secretary turned it over to the Biological Survey—the adminis- 
tration of all matters respecting game in the public domain; the inter- 
state commerce in game; the inspection of birds and animals coming 
into this country, whether game animals or not; the importation of 
eggs and the game law of Alaska—put that work on the Biological 
Survey, and neither of those bills are accompanied by any appropria- 
tion, so that, in order to obey the law, we were obliged to carry on 
the office work in our office, and that has gradually taken more and 
more of the force, until the man who had been my best man, my 
right-hand man for years, has, for the last two years, given practi- 
cally all of his time to it; has taken two other good assistants and a 
stenographer, and still can not keep up with the work. 
Mr. Scorr. What I failed to understand was how it could be that a 
man in an office here in Washington could enforce game laws in Alaska. 
Mr. Merriam. We do it by the way the law is phrased. We have 
charge of granting permits for killing game, and the way we enforce the 
law is by looking out for the shipments, and by preventing the landin 
of game at the ports of entry. The customs inspectors at Seattle an 
