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from and after said fifteenth day of September, 1904, it shall be unlawful for any 

 person to take, kill, capture, destroy or have in possession more than one elk in the 

 open season of any year; and it shall be unlawful at any time to sell or offer for sale, 

 barter or exchange, or to have in possession for sale, barter or exchange, any elk 

 meat. 



Hides, etc. : Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful at any time to hunt, pursue, take, kill, 

 injure, destroy or have in possession any dear [deer], elk, moose, mountain sheep or 

 spotted fawn for the purpose of obtaining the skin, hide, horns, hams or other flesh 

 of such animal for the purpose of sale, barter, exchange or trade, except as hereinafter 

 provided; and it shall be unlawful at any time for any person, company, firm or 

 corporation to buy, offer to buy, or sell or offer for sale, or have in possession for 

 sale, or to transport or carry for purposes of trade, sale, barter or exchange, the skin, 

 hide, horns, hams or other flesh of any deer, elk, moose, mountain sheep or spotted 

 fawn, except as hereinafter provided. Any person who shall lawfully kill deer 

 during the open season named in this act, not to exceed five deer, may make an 

 affidavit before any justice of the peace, setting forth the date of killing of each deer 

 and that the same was killed by the affiant; and said justice of the peace taking said 

 affidavit shall, unless he have reason to believe that said affidavit is false or that the 

 affiant has violated this act, thereupon deliver to the affiant one leather tag of the 

 character hereinafter described for the hide of each deer covered by said affidavit, 

 not exceeding five in all; and the person so receiving such tag or tags shall securely 

 fasten with wire one tag to each deer skin, and shall thereupon be entitled to offer 

 said deer skin for sale or exchange or transportation to any point within the state. 

 The tags above referred to shall be designed and issued by the State Game and Forestry 

 Warden, and shall bear a stamp impressed by him containing a number and the 

 year of issue and such other words or figures as he may determine. * * * Such 

 affidavit [above referred to] may also be taken by and filed with any county clerk of 

 the county court of any county, who may issue tags direct to affiants under the regula- 

 tions hereinbefore mentioned. The fees of the county clerks, clerks of the county court 

 and justices of the peace for taking the affidavits hereinbefore required shall be the 

 same as provided by general law for the same purpose, and each justice of the peace 

 transmitting any such affidavits may make an additional charge to the affiant of ten 

 cents therefor. No tag shall be issued to any person in any year for any deer hide 

 after the expiration of five days from the close of the open season for deer, nor shall 

 more than five of such tags ever be issued to one person in any one year. It shall 

 be unlawful for any person to buy, sell or offer for sale, or receive for any purpose, 

 or transport or carry any deer hide within this state unless the same shall have 

 attached thereto a leather tag as hereinbefore provided. Any person who shall 

 willfully make a false affidavit for the purpose of securing any tag hereinbefore men- 

 tioned, or who shall counterfeit or alter, or attempt to counterfeit or alter, any such 

 tag issued by the State Game and Forestry Warden, shall be guilty of a violation of 

 this act, and shall be ]3unished as hereinafter provided. 



Sale, Pheasant, grouse, quail: Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful within the State of 

 Oregon to sell, exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, for money or other valuable 

 consideration, or to take or kill for sale, or to have in possession for sale or exchange, 

 except for scientific or breeding purposes, any pheasant, grouse or quail, at any time 

 except during the last fifteen days of the open season for the killing of such grouse, 

 pheasantor quail as hereinbefore provided in this act; provided however, thatthis section 

 shall not be construed to in anywise change or alter any of the provisions of this act 

 respecting said game birds; provided further, that every person, firm or corporation 

 who shall, within the State of Oregon, purchase, or receive for the purpose of sale, 

 or exchange or barter, or who shall sell or exchange or barter any grouse, pheasant 

 or quail, shall keep a plain and true record, in book form, of every purchase or 

 reception of any such game birds made by him, showing the date of purchase or 



