58 LAWS KEaULATING TRAN^SPOKTATIOlSr AND SALE OF GAME. 



IOWA. 



Annotated Code, 1897, Title XII, chap. 15, pp. 887-888. 



Sec. 2552. Killing fo7^ traffic. Destroying eggs or nests. No person shall at any 

 time, or at any place within this State, trap, shoot or kill for traffic any pinnated 

 grouse or prairie chicken, woodcock, (juail, ruffed grouse or pheasant; nor shall 

 any one person shoot or kill during any one day more than twenty-five of either 

 kind of said named birds; nor shall anyone person firm or corporation have more 

 '^'i[;;| than twenty- five of either kind of said named birds in his or their possession at 



^[••'t any one time, unless lawfully received for transportation; or catch or take or 



„/' ; attempt to catch or take, with any trap, snare or net any of the birds or animals 



ii'ii ' named in the preceding section; or in any manner wilfully destroy the eggs or 



nests of any of the birds named in this and the preceding section. [18 G. A., 

 ch. 198, §2; 17 G. A., ch. 156, §3.] 

 Ill Sec. 2554. Having in possession. It shall be unlawful for any person, company 



1 or corporation to buy or sell, or have in possession, any of the birds or animals 



■ ^1 . named in this chapter, during the period when the killing of such birds or animals 



is prohibited, except during the first five days of such prohibited period; and 

 the possession by any person company or corporation of any such birds or animals 

 during such prohibited period, except during the first five days thereof, shall be 

 presumptive evidence of a violation of the provisions of this chapter relating to 

 game. [17 G. A., ch. 156, §5.] 



Sec. 2555. Shipping out of State. No person, company or corporation shall at 

 anytime ship, take or carry out of this State any of the birds or animals named 

 in this chapter; but it shall be lawful for any person to ship to any person within 

 this State any game birds named, not to exceed one dozen in any one day, during 

 the period when the killing of such birds is not prohibited; but he shall first make 

 an affidavit before some person authorized to administer oaths that said birds 

 have not been unlawfully killed, bought, sold or had in possession, are not being 

 shipped for sale or profit, giving the name and post-office address of the person 

 to whom shipped, and the number of birds to be so shipped. * * * [17 q. a., 

 ch. 156 §6.] 



Sec. 2556. Penalty. If any person use any device, kill, trap, ensnare, buy, sell, 

 ship, or have in his possession, or ship, take or carry out of the State, contrary to 

 the provisions of this chapter, any of the birds or animals named or referred to 

 herein, or shall wilfully destroy any eggs or nests of the birds named or referred 

 to in the preceding sections, he shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for each 

 bird " * * so killed, trapped, ensnared, bought, sold, shipped, had in pos- 

 session, destroyed, or shipped, tat en or carried out of the State, and shall stand 

 committed to the county jail for thirty days unless such fine and costs of pros- 

 ecuting are sooner paid. [17 G. A., ch. 156, §7.] 



Sec. 2557. Receiving for transportation. If any railway or express company 

 or other common carrier, or any of their agents or servants, receive any of the fish, 

 birds or animals mentioned or referred to in this chapter for transportation or other 

 purpose, during the period hereinbefore limited and prohibited, or at any other 

 time except in the manner provided in this chapter, he or it shall be punished 

 by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, 

 or by imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment. 



KANSAS. 



Session Laws of 1897, chap. 135, pp. 294-295. 



Sec. 3. The having in possession, by any person or persons, company or corpora- 

 tion of any bird named in section one of this act [partridge, pinnated grouse or 



