130 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 



prima facie evidence that the said deer, wild turkey, pheasant, or ruffed grouse, 

 were killed within this State for the purpose of carrying the same beyond its limits. 



Approved February 22, 1899. 



WISCONSIN. 



Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, Vol. I, chap. 62, pp. 1113-1114. 



Shipment: Sec. 1498?7i [as amended 1901] . Any person or corporation, or any agent 

 or servant of the latter, who shall, for compensation or otherwise, ^ * * transport 

 any of the animals, fowl or birds for which a close season is prescribed by law, during 

 such season, or ship, carry or transport, offer or receive for shipment or transportation 

 to any place beyond this State any feathered game protected by these statutes except 

 live birds and also fifty birds or fowl of any variety when the same are accompanied 

 by and in the possession of the owner thereof * ^ * qy ship, transport or carry 

 out of this State to sell or offer for sale any duck of any variety or any snipe or 

 plover between the first day of December and the next succeeding first day of Sep- 

 tember, shall forfeit not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars for each such violation, to be recovered in a civil action brought in the name 

 of the State by the State fish and game warden or one of his deputies. The posses- 

 sion of any such animals, fowl or birds during the close season therefor, for ship- 

 ment or in transit, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this section. 

 * "^ "^ It shall be the duty of every person Avhenever any animal, fish or game of 

 any of the kinds the taking, catching or killing of which is prohibited by law at any 

 or all times (except during the periods in which the same may be lawfully taken, 

 caught or killed) is offered to him for transportation out of this State to at once notify 

 and give full particulars concerning such offer and by whom made, to the State fish 

 and game warden or one of his deputies. All sections of these statutes relating to 

 having in possession or under control, or the sale, shipment or transportation of any 

 animal, fish, water-fowl or bird, shall be construed to include any and all parts of 

 the flesh and meat thereof. 



Laws of 1899, chap. 312, pp. 665-577. 



Nonresident license coupons: [Sec. 11 (amending section 1498g, Wisconsin 

 statutes of 1898) . Each license for hunting game shall state for what year the same is 

 granted, and shall be valid for no other period than that which the law shall designate 

 to be the open season for the game permitted to be hunted, taken, or killed by the 

 terms of such license, subject to the proviso that all kinds of game can be hunted by 

 a person holding a license for the hunting of deer. ^ * * Each license for the 

 hunting of deer issued to a nonresident of the State shall be provided with two cou- 

 pons. Each coupon shall be divided into three sections, lettered "A," "B," and 

 "C," respectively^ The holder of a nonresident license shall be entitled to have 

 transported within or without the State one carcass of a deer or part of a carcass of 

 a deer on each of the two coupons attached to his license. The agent receiving the 

 carcass for transportation shall detach section ' 'A' ' of the coupon and forward said 

 section to the State fish and game warden. Sections "B" and "C" are to be 

 attached to the carcass of deer received for transportation, and all three sections of 

 the coupon must be canceled by said receiving agent, with the date of reception for 

 shipment and his initials written or stamped plainly thereon. While in transit 

 within the State sections "B" and "C" of the coupon must be on the carcass, or 

 said carcass shall be subject to seizure as contraband game. If the place of delivery 

 is within the State of Wisconsin, the delivering agent shall, before delivery to con- 

 signee, detach section "C" and forward said section to the State fish and game 

 warden, leaving section " B " attached to the carcass. Agents or employes of trans- 



