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actual owner of such bird or birds, who, to aid another in such transportation, 

 falsely represents himself to be the owner thereof, shall be liable to the same penalty; 

 nor shall any person or corporation carry or transport at any one time more than 

 fifteen of any one variety of the birds above named as the property of one person 

 under the same penalty. * * ^ 



Game birds defined: Sec. 12. [as amended by Public Laws of 1901, ch-ap. 142, 

 p. 159] * * * For the purposes of this act, the following only shall be considered 

 game birds: the anatidae, commonly known as swans, geese, brant, and river and 

 sea ducks; the rallidge, commonly known as rails, coots, mud-hens and gallinules; 

 the limicolfe, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, 

 sandpipers, tatlers and curlews; the gallinfe, commonly known as wild turkeys, 

 grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and quails. * * * 



Shipment — Moose, deer: Sec. 23. No person or corporation shall carry or trans- 

 port from place to place any moose or deer, or part thereof, in close time, nor in 

 open time unless open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the name and resi- 

 dence of the owner thereof, and accompanied by him, under a penalty of forty dol- 

 lars and costs of prosecution for each moose or deer so transported or carried; and 

 any person not the actual owner of such game or parts thereof, who, to aid another 

 in such transi:)ortation, falsely represents himself to l)e the owner thereof, shall be 

 liable to the penalties aforesaid; and it shall be prima facie evidence that said game, 

 that is being transported or carried in violation of this section, was illegally killed; 

 but nothing herein shall apply to the transportation of moose or deer by any person 

 or corporation, when such game is lawfully tagged in accordance with the provisions 

 of section twenty-six of this chapter. Whoever lawfully kills a bull moose shall, 

 while the same or any part thereof, is being transported, preserve and transport it 

 with the evidence on the moose of the sex of the same. Whoever fails to comply 

 with the provisions of this section shall forfeit to the State the moose or part thereof 

 being transported, and pay a fine of three hundred dollars and costs of i^rosecution. 



Seizure, Return: Sec. 24. All birds, fish, and game hunted, caught, killed, 

 destroyed, bought, carried, transported or found in possession of any person or cor- 

 poration, in violation of the j^rovisions of this chapter and amendments thereto, shall 

 be liable to seizure; and in case of conviction for such violation, such game shall be 

 forfeited to the State, to be sold for consumption in this State only. Any person 

 whose game or fish has been seized for violation of any game or fish law, shall have 

 it returned to him on giving to the officer a bond with suflB.cient sureties, residents 

 of the State, in double the amount of the fine for such violation, on condition that, 

 if convicted of such violation, he will, within thirty days thereafter, pay such fine 

 and costs. If he neglects or refuses to give such bond and takes the game or fish so 

 seized, he shall have no action against the officer for such seizure, or for the loss of 

 the game or fish seized. 



Export: Sec 25. No resident of this State shall sell or give away any moose or 

 deer or part thereof, or any game birds, to be transported or carried beyond the lim- 

 its of this State, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every moose, 

 deer or part thereof, and one dollar for every game bird so sold or given away; and 

 any person who shall buy any of the above-named animals or birds or parts thereof, 

 to so transport them, or w^ho shall transport them after buying the same or receiving 

 the same as a gift, shall be subject to the same penalty. 



Tags: Sec. 26. Any person who has lawfully killed a moose or a deer, * * * 

 or one pair of game birds, may send the same to his home or to any hospital in the 

 State, without accompanying the same by purchasing of the duly constituted agent 

 therefor a tag, paying for a moose five dollars, for a deer two dollars, * * ^ and 

 fifty cents for a pair of game birds. The commissioners of inland fisheries and game 

 may appoint agents in convenient localities who may sell these tags, under such rules 

 and regulations as the commissioners may adopt. * * * 



