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[Sec] 3. [Unlawful to transport.] It shall be unlawful for any railway com- 

 pany, express company, or other common carrier, or the servants or agents of such 

 common carrier, at any time to send, ship, carry or transport out of this State 

 any carcass or carcasses of any of such animals as named in Section 1 of this Act. 



[Sec] 4. [Violation— Penalty.] Any person or persons who shall violate any 

 part of any of the three preceding sections shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined 

 not less than twenty five dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), 

 or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than 

 six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 



Approved, March 4, 1899. 



TENNESSEE. 



Acts of 1897, chap. 55, pp. 195-196. 



Sec 1. * " " That it shall be unlawful for any person to export quail, dead 

 or alive, out of the State of Tennessee, for five years from and after the passage of 

 this Act. 



Sec. 2. * " •■" That any person violating the first section of this Act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. upon conviction before any court having 

 jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than five nor more than ten dollars for each 

 quail so exported. 



Approved, March 24, 1897. 



TEXAS. 



General Laws of 1897, chap. 149, pp. 214-215. 



Sec 1. * * * That all the wild deer, wild antelope, wild turkeys, wild ducks, 

 wild geese and wild grouse, wild prairie chickens (pinnated groused, wild Mon- 

 golian or English pheasants, wild quail or partridges, wild plover, snipe, and 

 jacksnipe, found within the borders of this State, shall be, and the same are hereby, 

 declared to be the property of the public. 



Sec 2. Whoever shall sell, or offer for sale, have in his possession for the pur- 

 pose of sale, or whoever shall purchase or have in his possession after purchase, 

 any wild deer or antelope killed in this State, or the carcass thereof, or the fresh 

 hide thereof, or whoever shall sell or offer for sale, or have in his possession for 

 the purpose of sale, or whoever shall purchase, or have in his possession after pur- 

 chase, any of the game mentioned in section 1 of this act, killed or taken within 

 this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 

 shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars; 

 provided, that the sale and purchase of the game mentioned in section 1 of this 

 act shall not be unlawful when said sale or purchase is made in the county where 

 such game was killed or taken; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be 

 construed to prohibit the sale or shipment of wild ducks and wild geese. 



Sec 7. It shall be unlawful for any express company, railroad company, or other 

 common carrier, or the oificers, agents, servants, or employees of the same, to 

 receive for the purpose of transportation, or to transport, carry, or take beyond 

 the limits of this State, or within this State, any animal, bird, or waterfowl men- 

 tioned in section 1 of this act; and it shall be unlawful for any person to transport, 

 carry or take beyond the limits of this State any animal, bird, or fowl mentioned 

 in section 1 of this act; and whoever shall violate the provisions hereof shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any 

 sum not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars; p)rovided, that 

 each shipment shall constitute a separate offense, and that such express company, 

 railroad company, or other common carrier, or their agents, servants, or employees, 

 shall have the privilege of examining any suspected package for the purpose of 

 determining whether such package contains any of the articles mentioned in sec- 

 tion 1 of this act; but this act shall not apply to the shipment or transportation of 



