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the tenth day of November and the fifteenth day of December, inclusive; or any of 

 the song or insectivorous birds mentioned in section 6960; or whoever shall at any 

 time, catch or kill, any quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse or i^heasant, prairie chicken, 

 woodcock, squirrel, Mongolian pheasant, or English or ring-neck pheasant, for the 

 purpose of conveying the same beyond the limits of this State, or for sale in the 

 markets of this State, or shall transport or have in possession with intent to procure 

 the transportation beyond the limits of this State, or for sale in the markets of this 

 State, any quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, or pheasant, prairie chicken, woodcock, 

 squirrel, Mongolian pheasant, or English or ring-neck pheasant, killed within this 

 State, shall be fiiied as provided in section 6968. And in addition thereto, shall be 

 liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each bird trapped or possessed contrary 

 to the provisions of this act. The reception by any person within this State of any 

 such birds, game or animals, for shipment to a point without the State, shall be 

 prima facie evidence that such birds, game or animals were killed within this State 

 for the purpose of conveying the same beyond its limits; Provided, that the provi- 

 sions of this act shall not be construed as applicable to any common carrier into 

 whose possession any of the birds, game or animals herein mentioned, shall come in 

 the regular course of their business for transportation, while they are in transit 

 through this State from any place without this State, where the killing of such birds, 

 game or animals shall be lawful, but nothing in the provisions of this act shall pre- 

 vent any one having in his possession wild deer during the time when the killing 

 thereof is made penal. Any game warden or deputy game warden in this State 

 shall have authority and right, at any time, to open' packages, boxes, crates or other 

 receptacles containing the birds, game or animals prohibited by this act from being 

 transported without the limits of this State, delivered to a common carrier for trans- 

 portation out of the State, and shall take and confiscate such birds, game or animals 

 about to be transported out of the State and deliver them to some hospital, infirm- 

 ary or charitable institution. 



Passed April 12, 1898. 



Penalties: Sec. 6968. [Any person convicted of any violation of any oi the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than 

 one hundred (100) dollars, and in case of neglect or refusal to pay said fine, be 

 imprisoned in the county jail or workhouse, and shall there remain for the full 

 period of thirty days. (Revised Statutes, 1897.)] 



OKLAHOMA. 



Session Laws of 1899, Chap. XV, pp. 165-167. 



Leg-al sale: Sec. 3. Any person having lawfully taken any of the game mentioned 

 in this Act, or any person lawfully having any of said game [prairie chicken, 

 grouse, quail, wild turkey, plover, dove] in his possession, may sell the same to 

 persons living in the Territory of Oklahoma, for consumption therein. 



Imported game: Sec. 4. No person shall at anytime have in possession or under 

 control any birds, game or fish caught, taken or killed outside of this Territory, 

 which was caught, taken or killed at a time, in a manner, or for a purpose forbidden 

 by the laws of this Territory or the State, Territory or country where the same was 

 caught, taken or killed, or which was shipped out of said State, Territory or country 

 in violation of the laws thereof. 



Evidence: Sec. 5. [Possession of birds or game at a time prohibited by the laws 

 of this Territory shall be prima facie evidence that it was killed in this Territory. 

 Whenever it shall appear that any birds or game, the killing of which is at any time 

 prohibited by the law^s of this Territory, was killed outside of this Territory, it shall 

 be 'prima facie evidence that such bird or game was killed at a time, in a manner, 



