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Acts of 1896, No. 96, p. 76. 



Sec. 1. No person or corporation shall kill, expose for sale, or have in possession 

 at any time any game bird for which there is a close season in this State [quail, 

 ruiLed grouse or partridge, introduced pheasant, English partridge, plover, wood- 

 cock, English snipe, duck, goose] except for consumption as food within the 

 State. But this shall not prevent a person residing out of the State from taking 

 game birds in open season and three days thereafter out of the State when shipped 

 open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the name of the owner thereof and 

 accompanied by him. Any person or«corporation violating any of the iDrovisions 

 of this section, or any ijerson who, not being the actual owner of such game birds, 

 to aid another in such transportation falsely represents himself to be the owner 

 thereof, shall be fined fifty dollars for each offense; and the delivery to or recep- 

 tion by any person or corporation within this State of any such game birds for 

 shipment to a point without the State shall be prima facie evidence that the same 

 were killed and are possessed within the State for a purpose other than that of 

 being consumed as food within the State. 



Approved, November 24, 1896. 



VIRGINIA. 



[No general prohibitions against transportation or sale.] 



WASHINGTON. 



Session Laws of 1897, Chap. LII, pp. 84-86. 



Sec. 12 (as amended by Laws of 1899, Chap. CXXXYIII). Every person who 

 shall offer for sale or market, or sell or barter any moose, elk, caribou, killed in 

 this State, antelope, mountain sheep or goat, deer, or the hide or skin of any 

 moose, elk, deer or caribou, or any grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, partridge, sage 

 hen, prairie chicken or quail at any time of the year, sha 1 be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 13 (as amended by Laws of 1899, Chap. CXXXVIII). Every person, agent 

 or employe of a company or corporation, hotel-keeper, restaurant keeper, boarding 

 house keeper, or keeper of a market, or other person who shall buy or barter for, 

 at any time of the year, the whole or any part of the meat of any moose, elk, cari- 

 bou, antelope, mountain sheep or goat, deer, or the hide or skin of cny moose, 

 elk, deer or caribou, or any grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, partridge, sage hen, 

 prairie chicken or quail, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 14. Every person, agent or employe of a company or corporation who shall 

 at any time transport or ship out of the State, or keep stored for the purpose of 

 transporting or shipping out of the State, any of the wild game birds or animals 

 enumerated in the preceding sections, or any of the wild game birds or animals of 

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

 punished as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 18. Every person convicted of any of the misdemeanors defined in the fore- 

 going sections of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars 

 (§10) nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, together with the costs of the 

 prosecution in such action, and in default of the payment of said fine, shall be 

 imprisoned in the county jail one day for each two dollars ($2) of such fine; and 

 upon the trial of any person, agent or employe of a company or corporation, 

 proof of the possession of the wild animals, birds, or song birds, when it is unlaw- 

 ful to take, kill or have same, shall be prima facie evidence that the said wild 

 game animal, game bird, or song bird, was unlawfully taken or killed by the per- 

 son having possession of same. 



Approved, March 11, 1897. 



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