82 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOE 1901. 



ARKANSAS. 



Sandels and Hill's Dig-est of the Statutes, 1897, Chap. LXIX, pp. 844-848. 



Export: Sec. 3414. * * * It shall be lawful to export from any part of this 

 State, Ijeavers, opossums, hares or rabbits, ground hogs or woodchucks, raccoons, 

 squirrels, snipes or plovers, ducks and geese, when shipped openly. 



Sec. 3416. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, steamboat, express 

 company, or any other common carrier, to take for carriage any fish or game con- 

 signed to points beyond the limits of this State. 



Examining packages: Sec. 3417. All such common carriers may refuse to 

 receive any package which they may suppose contains fish or game designed for 

 export, and may cause said package to be opened, or may satisfy themselves in any 

 other way that said package does not contain game or fish. 



Penalties: Sec. 3418. Any common carrier violating the provisions of this act, 

 shall l)e guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not 

 less than S50, nor more than $200. 



Shipment: Sec. 3435. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express com- 

 pany, steamboat company, or other company, or corporation, or private person, to 

 have in possession or receive for transportation or carriage, or for any other purpose 

 whatsoever, any of the game or birds mentioned in section 3431 [deer, quail or Vir- 

 ginia partridge, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, wdld turkey] , during the season 

 when the killing, catching or injuring the same is prohibited. (See p. 21.) 



Penalties: Sec. 3436. [Violation of any of the provisions of this act a misde- 

 meanor, punishable by a fine $3-|10 for each bird or nest of eggs, and $10-520 for 

 each deer, together with costs of prosecution.] 



Acts of 1901, No. CLXXIV, p. 328. 



Q,uail — White County: Sec. 1. * * * It shall also be unlawful to catch or kill 

 for sale shipping or barter or giving away of any quail in White County, and Barren 

 and Glaize Townships, Jackson County, Providing nothing in this bill shall prevent 

 any person or persons to catch or kill such quail for their individual or home 

 consumption. 



Penalty: Sec. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than 

 twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. 



Approved, May 23, 1901. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Penal Code, 1872, as amended by Statues of 1901, Chap. CCLXXIV, pp. 



819-823. 



Hides: [Sec] 626h. Every person who buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, trans- 

 ports or carries, or has in his possession, the skin, pelt, or hide of any female deer, or 

 spotted fawn, or any deer hide, or pelt from which the evidence of sex has been 

 removed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sale: [Sec] 626k. Every person who buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, barter, 

 or trade, any quail, partridge, pheasant, grouse, sage hen, ibis, or plover, or any deer 

 meat, whether taken or killed in the State of California or shipped into the State 

 from any other State, Territory, or foreign -^ountry, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Propagation: [Sec] 6261. Nothing in ^his Act shall be held to prohibit the pos- 

 session for scientific purposes, or the taking alive for the purpose of propagation, any 

 of the animals or birds mentioned in this section; provided, x>ermission to take and 

 possess said birds or animals for said purposes shall have been first obtained in writ- 



