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of this state, except when accompanied by the same and in his possession on the 

 same train, as provided for in this act. Any person who shall violate any of the 

 provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of five dollars for each bird so 

 shipped or taken, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days. 



Marking- packages: Sec. 10. It is hereby required that any and all packages con- 

 taining fish or game shall be labeled in plain letters on the address side of the pack- 

 age, so as to disclose the fact that said jDackage contains fish or game, and the amount 

 of said fish or game so contained in said package. Any person who shall deliver to 

 a common carrier for transportation any package or parcel containing fish or game, 

 which said package or parcel shall not be so labeled as herein required, or who shall 

 place upon said package or parcel a false statement as to the contents thereof, shall 

 be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days. 



Sec. 11. Every person delivering to a common carrier a package or parcel contain- 

 ing fish or game, shall place upon said package the name and address of the owner 

 or consigner of said package or parcel, and also place upon such package a descrip- 

 tion of the contents thereon [thereof] , containing the number of birds or animals of 

 each kind and the number of fish of each variety. Any person violating the provisions 

 of this section, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than 

 ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Unmarked packag-es: Sec. 12. It shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for 

 any common carrier or agent, servant or employe of a common carrier, to receive for 

 transportation or transport any package or parcel containing fish or game unless the 

 same shall be labeled as provided in sections 10 and 11 of this article. A.nj person, 

 firm or corj^oration violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit to the State 

 of Nebraska a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, in the discretion of the court. 



Importation: Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for any 

 person, firm or corporation acting as common carrier, to bring into this state any 

 fish or game from any state during the time that such other state prohibits the trans- 

 portation of such fish or game from said state to a point without the same. Any 

 person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit to the 

 state the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars 

 in the discretion of the court. 



Game in transit: Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful and is prohibited for any person, 

 firm or corporation or common carrier to ship into or through this state from any 

 other state any fish or game prohibited by the laws of said state to be shipped or 

 transported and it shall be the duty of the state fish and game commissioner of this 

 state or his deputy to seize, hold and dispose of, according to the laws of this state, 

 any fish or game brought into or shipped into tliis state, or carried through, or 

 attempted to be carried through this state, prohibited to be so shipped or transported 

 by the laws of any other state, and further to dispose of the same according to the 

 laws of this state. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this 

 act shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five 

 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. 



Shipment: Sec. 15. Any person, company or corporation, or any agent or servant 

 of the same who shall, for compensation or otherwise, transport or offer or receive for 

 shipment or transportation any animals, fish, fowls or birds for which a closed season 

 is provided by law, during such closed season, or who shall transport or offer or 

 receive for shipment or transportation to any place beyond this state any animals, 

 fish, fowls or birds for which an open season is provided by law, during such open 

 season, except as provided in section eight (8) of this article, shall forfeit not less 

 than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each sucli violation, 

 to be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the state fish and game com- 



