84 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOE 1901. 



Property of State: Sec. 16. All game and fish now or hereafter within this state 

 not held by private ownership, legally acquired, and which for the purposes of this 

 act shall include all the quadrupeds, birds and fish mentioned in this act, are hereby 

 declared to be the property of the state, and no right, title, interest or property 

 therein can be acquired or transferred, or possession thereof had or mamtained 

 except as herein expressly provided. 



DIVISION B. GENERAL REGULATIONS. 



Sale: Sec. 1. No person shall at any time of the year, or in any manner, pursue, 

 take, wound or kill any bison, buffalo, elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep or beaver, 

 or any of the following wild birds, viz: Turkey, prairie chicken, sage chicken, grouse, 

 quail, pheasant, partridge, ptarmigan, duck, goose, brant, swan, crane, water fowl, 

 pigeon, dove, snipe or curlew, * -^ * or sell, offer or expose for sale or have the 

 same in possession, except as permitted by this act. ^ * * 



Big- game — Sex: Sec. 3. No person shall have in possession or transport the car- 

 cass of any game quadruped or any considerable portion of such carcass unless the 

 same has thereon the natural e\'idence of its sex sufficient to enable such sex to be 

 readily determined by ordinary inspection. 



Sale prohibited: Sec. 7. (9) [No person shall dispose of to another, except by 

 actual donation, any edible part of game or fish taken or killed under the provisions 

 of this section (which i:>rovides open seasons, manner and i^urpose of capture, and 

 limits the number of each kind of game which may be taken in the State)]. 



DIVISION C. PARKS. 



Invoice, g-ame from parks: Sec 16. AMien the proprietor of any licensed park 

 or lake of class A [in whole or part on land held by private ownership or acquired 

 for irrigation purposes] shall sell or dispose of any game or fish as herein provided, 

 he shall at the same time deliver to the purchaser or donee or attach thereto an 

 invoice signed by such proprietor or his agent, stating the number of the license and 

 name of such park, or lake, the date of disposition, the kind, and as near as practi- 

 cable the number and weight of such game or fish, the name and address of the i)ur- 

 chaser, consignee or donee. Such invoice shall authorize transportation within this 

 state, possession and use for thirty days after this date * * * 



Sec. 17. Such proprietor or his agent shall at the same time mail, postpaid, a 

 duplicate of such invoice to the commissioner at Denver * * * 



Shipping game from parks: Sec. 18. When any such game or fish, for which 

 an invoice is required, is to be shipped by rail, express, or other carrier, public or 

 private, the invoice shall be securely attached thereto or to the package containing 

 the same, in plain sight, and the same may then be lawfully carried and delivered 

 within this state to the consignee named in such invoice. 



Sale of game from parks: Sec. 19. If such game or fish is held, exposed or 

 offered for sale or sold by the consignee or kept in any storage, hotel, restaurant, 

 cafe or boarding house, such invoice shall be kept attached thereto as aforesaid until 

 the same shall have been prepared for consumption. 



Sec. 20. In case of a sale or disposition of a part of such game or fish the vendor 

 shall at the same time make a copj" of such invoice and indorse thereon the date of 

 sale, the number and kind of game or fish so disposed of and the name of the pur- 

 chaser, and sign and deliver the same to the purchaser or donee, who shall keep it 

 attached as aforesaid until the game or fish is prepared for consumption, and the 

 same shall have the same force and effect as the original invoice. 



Misstatements: Sec. 21. Any wilful misstatement in or any omission of a 

 substantial requirement from any invoice or copy thereof, shall render the same 



