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Sec. 627. * •'■ - Every railroad company, express couii)au3'. transportation 

 company, or other common can-ier. their officers, agents, and servants, and every 

 other person who shall transport, carry, or take out of this State, or who shall 

 receive for the purpose of transporting from the State, any deer, deerskin, buck, 

 doe, or fawn, or any quail, partridge, pheasant, grouse, prairie chicken, dove, or 

 wild duck, transport, carry, or take from the State, or receive for the purpose of 

 transporting from this State, any such animal or bird, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor: provided, that the right to transport for the purposes of propagation 

 shall first be obtained by peimit. in writing, 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 a sum not less than twenty dollars, or 

 more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail in the county 

 in which the conviction shall be had, not less than ten nor more than one hundred 

 and fifty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Amendment approved March 9. 1S9T; Stats. ISOT. chap. 89. 



Sec. 631. Every person who shall at any time net or pound, cage or trap, any 

 quail, partridge, or grouse, and every person who shall sell, transport, or give 

 away, or offer, or expose for sale, or have in his possession an}^ quaii, partridge, 

 or grouse that has been snared, captured, or taken by means of any net or pound, 

 cage or trap, whether taken in the State of California, or shipped into the State 

 from any other State, Territory, or foreign country, is guilty of a misdemeanor; 

 provided, the same may be taken for the purposes of propagation, written permis- 

 sion having been first obtained from the game warden of the county wherein said 

 birds are to be taken. Proof of possession of any quail, partridge, or grouse, 

 which shall not show evidence of having been taken by means other than a net or 

 or pound, shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution for violation of the 

 provisions of this section that the person in whose possession such quail, partridge, 

 or grouse is found, took, killed, or destroyed the same by means of net or pound. 



Amendment approved March 27, 1895: Stats. 1895, p. 260. 



COLORADO. 



Session Laws of 1899, chap. 98, pp. 188-217. 



Division A. Sec. 16. All game and fish now or hereafter within this state not 

 held by private ownership. legally acquired, and which for the purposes of this 

 act shall include all the quadrupeds, birds and fish mentioned in this act, are 

 hereby declared to be the property of the state, and no right, title, interest or 

 property therein can be acquired or transferred, or possession thereof had or 

 maintained except as herein expressly provided. 



Division B. Sec. 1. No person shall at any time of the year, or in an 3^ manner, 

 pursue, take, wound or kill any bison, buffalo, elk. deer, antelope, mountain sheep 

 or beaver, or any of the following wild birds, viz: Turkey, prairie chicken, sage 

 chicken, grouse, quail, pheasant, partridge, ptarmigan, duck, goose, brant, swan, 

 crane, water fowl, pigeon, dove, snipe or curlew. * -^ -^ or sell, offer or expose 

 for sale or have the same in possession, except as permitted by this act. ^ ^ ^ 



Sec. 8. No person shall have in possession or transport the carcass of any game 

 quadruped or any considerable portion of such carcass unless the same has 

 thereon the natural evidence of its sex sufficient to enable such sex to be readily 

 determined by ordinary inspection. 



Division D, Sec. 11. When any person lawfully in possession of game or fish shall 

 desire to transport the same within this state, the transportation of which is not 

 herein otherwise provided for, or out of this state, the commissioner may. upon 



* For full regulations regarding sale of game taken in public and private parks 

 or imported from other States, see Divisions C, sees. 16-21; and D. sees. -1-8. 



