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KANSAS. 



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



Sale: Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any jDerson or persons, company or corpora- 

 tion, at any time, to buy, sell, barter, ship or offer for sale, barter or shipment, 

 within the State of Kansas, any bird or birds named in section one of this Act. [Par- 

 tridge, pinnated grouse or prairie chicken, grouse, quail, pheasant, oriole, meadow- 

 lark, robin, thrush, redbird, mockingbird, blue jay, turtledove, yellowhammer, or 

 bluebird.] The having in possession by any person, company or corporation of 

 any bird or birds named in section one of this act, except by a person who has 

 lawfully killed the same, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of 

 this act. 



SMpment: Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful for any railroad, express or transportation 

 company or corporation, or any agent, employee or manager of such company to 

 accept, within the State of Kansas, for shipment or transfer, any of the birds men- 

 tioned in section one of this act. The having in possession of any of the birds men- 

 tioned in the first section of this act by any such railroad, express or transportation 

 company or corporation, or agent or employee or manager thereof, shall be deemed 

 prima facie evidence of a violation of this act. 



Penalties: Sec. 8. Any person, or the manager, agent or employee of any com- 

 pany or corporation found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, 

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

 court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars, for each and every offense, and costs, together with 

 an attorney's fee of ten dollars, and shall be committed until such fine, costs and 

 attorney's fee shall be paid. 



Approved, March 13, 1897. 



LOUISIANA. 



[No general prohibitions against transportation or sale.] 



MAINE. 

 Public Laws of 1899, chap. 42, pp. 35-44. 



Introduction: Sec. 9. (as amended by Public Laws of 1901, chap. 222, p. 232) 

 * * * Whoever introduces wild birds or wild animals of any kind or species, into 

 the state except upon written permission of the commissioners of inland fisheries 

 and game, shall forfeit not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. 



Birds — Sale, Shipment: Sec. 11. (As amended by Public Laws of 1901, chap. 

 258, p. 281.) * * * Nor shall any person, at any time, kill or have in posses- 

 sion any ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, or woodcock, except for his 

 own consumption within this state, except as hereinafter provided, under a pen- 

 alty of five dollars for each bird so unlawfully killed or had in possession; nor 

 shall any person at any time sell, or offer for sale, any ruffed grouse, commonly 

 called partridge, or woodcock, within this state, under the same penalty; nor shall 

 any person or corporation carry or transport from place to place any of the birds 

 mentioned in this section [wood duck, dusky or black duck, teal, gray duck, ruffed 

 grouse or partridge, woodcock, quail, plover, snipe, and sandpipers, capercailzie or 

 cock of the woods, black game and pheasant], in close season, nor in open season 

 unless open to view, tagged, and plainly labeled with the owner's name and resi- 

 dence and accompanied by him, unless tagged in accordance Avith section twenty-six 

 of this chapter under the same penalty [$5 for each bird] . Any person, not the 



