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visions of this Act. shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of ten dollars 

 for each deer. buck, doe, or fawn so received or transported, and the sum of two 

 dollars for each quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, wild duck, or woodcock so received 

 or transported. 



[Sec] 2'254. Selling game not shot. Whoever sells, exposes to sale, or has pos- 

 session of for the purpose of selling, any quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, or wild 

 duck that has not been killed b}' shooting, shall be fined one dollar for each and 

 every quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, or wild duck so sold, exposed to sale, or 

 possessed for the purpose of selling. 



[Sec] 2255. Carrying game beyond State. It shall be unlawful for any railroad 

 company, express company, or other common carrier, or officers, agents, or serv- 

 ants, or any other person or persons, to transport, carry, or take beyond the limits 

 of this State, or to receive for the purpose of transporting, carrying, or taking 

 beyond the limits of this State, any deer, buck, doe, or fawn, any quail, pheasant, 

 wild duck, grouse, prairie chicken, or woodcock; and any such railroad company, 

 express company, or common carrier, their agents, officers, or servants, or any 

 other person or persons violating the provisions of this section, sha.l be fined in 

 any sum not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars for each 

 offense so committed. 



INDIAN TERRITORY. 



Revised Statutes TJ. S., 1878. 



Sec 2137. Every person, other than an Indian, who. within the limits of any 

 tribe with whom the United States has existing treaties, hunts, or traps, or takes 

 and destroys any peltries or game, except for subsistence in the Indian country, 

 shall forfeit all the traps, guns, and ammunition in his possession, used or pro- 

 cured to be used for that purpose, and all peltries so taken; and shall be liable in 

 addition to a penalty of five hundred dollars. 



Laws of the Chickasaw Nation.* Act of September 23, 1896. 



Sec 2. * * * That no person shall kill, ensnare, net or trap any quail, 

 prairie chicken, wild turkey, or any deer, antelope, or fawn, or other game, or 

 •fish, within the limits of the Chickasaw Nation to sell, or export to any State or 

 Territory; and any person who shall export or ship any game killed or taken in 

 the Chickasaw Nation out of said Nation or Territory, shall be punished as herein- 

 after provided for in this act. 



Sec 3. "'^ ■• " That no person shall ensnare, net or trap any quail, prairie 

 chicken, wild turkey, deer, antelope, fawn, fish or other game used for food within 

 this nation, or have in possession any game named in the foregoing section for 

 any purpose or any pretense whatever, except for food, and then when actually 

 necessary for immediate use: and the reasonable necessities of the person killing 

 the same. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished 

 as hereinafter provided for in this act. 



Sec 4. ^ " " That any person or persons found guilty of violating the pro- 

 visions of this act, as specified in sections two and three, shall upon conviction 

 thereof by the District Court of the Chickasaw Nation, be fined in any sum not 

 less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and be impris- 

 oned in the National Jail not less than ten days nor more than one hundred days 

 at the discretion of the Court trying the case for the first offense; and upon sub- 

 sequent conviction for violating the provisions of this act. shall be both fined and 

 imprisoned to the full extent provided for in this act. 



Approved September 23, 1896. 



' While the act of June 28, 1898, commonly known as the Curtis Act, abolishes 

 the tribal governments in the Indian Territory, an exception is made in Section 

 29 continuing those of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations in force until March 

 4,1906. (30 Stat. L.. 512.) 



