; 50 LAWS RECiULATIXa TRANSPORTATION AND SALE OF GAME. 



,, :• Sec. 3416. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, steamboat, express 

 i!| I company, or any other common carrier, to take for carriage any fish or game con- 

 jiiii! signed to points beyond the limits of this State. ' 

 '"II Sec. 3417. All such common carriers may refuse to receive any package which 

 ilillll they may suppose contains fish or game designed for export, and may cause said 

 '^ package to be opened, or may satisfy themselves in any other way that said pack- 

 lit "' age does not contain game or fish. 



i|| jji Sec. 3418, Any common carrier violating the provisions of this act, shall be 



j|ji i|] guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less 



'' than $50. nor more than S'-^OO. 



! ' Sec. 3434. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase, have in possession 



■ ■ ! or expose for sale, any of the birds or game mentioned in section 3431 [deer, quail, 



■'•'' or Virginia partridge, pinnated grouse, or prairie chicken, wild turkey] during 

 the season when the catching, killing, or injuring thereof is by this act pro- 

 hibited. 



:il'HH Sec. 3435. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, 



»jj steamboat company, or other company, or corporation, or private person, to have 



i in possession or receive for transportation or carriage, or for any other purpose 



■y l| whatsoever, any of the game or birds mentioned in section 3431, during the season 



when the killing, catching or injuring the same is prohibited. (See p. 18.) 



i|! [ Sec. 3436. [Violation of any of the provisions of this act a misdemeanor, pun- 



jjl I ishable by a fine S3-S10 for each bird or for each nest of eggs, and S10-$20 for 



' [ each deer, together with costs of prosecution.] 



||l I Sec. 3440. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier or individual to carry as 



''IjjII freight or otherwise any pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie chickens, 



,„;^^ either within or without this State, for a term ending April 12, 1901. 



11 ill Sec. 3441. Any common carrier or individual who shall violate the preceding 



'lljjl section, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $25, nor more than 850, for each 



|i||| jl pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie chickens, which they shall ship or carry 

 as above specified in this act, either dead or alive. 



,n CALIFORNIA. 



I ; Penal Code, 1897, pp. 216-221. 



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I .j'l! Sec. 626. * * * Every cold-storage company, person keeping a cold-storage 



pill warehouse, tavern, or hotel- keeper, restaurant, or eating-house keeper, market- 



* j I' man, or other person, who shall buj^, sell, expose or offer for sale, or give away, or 



']||; have in his possession, any quail, bobwhite, partridge, robin, grouse, dove, 



'iji pheasant, wild duck, or rail, during the time it shall be unlawful to kill such 



llljlli birds; "" - * every person who shall at any time buy, sell, or offer for sale the 



|! hide or meat of any deer, elk, antelope, or mountain sheep; every person who 



"i li: shall buy, sell, offer, or expose for sale, transport or carry, or have in his pos- 



j.j ill session, the skin, hide, or pelt of any deer from which the evidence of sex has been 



lull removed, is guilty of a misdemeanor: provided, however, that the right of pos- 



i,|j l! session for the purpose of propagation shall first be obtained by a permit in writ- 



ing, from the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of California. Any person 

 found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this section, shall be fined in 

 ,j a sum not less than twenty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or be 



, |l imprisoned in the county jail in the county in which the conviction shall be had, 



I' ' jjl not less than ten days or more than one hundred and fifty days, or be punished 



( || by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be no defense in a prosecution for 



a violation of any of the provisions of this section that the birds or animals were 

 !» , I taken or killed outside this State: provided, however, that nothing in this section 



shall be held to apply to the hide of any of said animals taken or killed in Alaska 

 or any foreign country. 



