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hearing for not giving ammunition to his 

 friends when they came to shoot pheas- 

 ants (?) on his grouse preserve and for 

 not letting them have a single bird to take 

 home to eat because Andrew wanted to 

 make the pheasants (?) so cheap in the 

 markets that it would not be worth while 

 for any one to steal his birds. (See re- 

 marks of one of the men who advised 

 the Congress printed on another page.) 



birds or eggs in their possession pro- 

 vied they procured them before the pass- 

 age of the act. Any arrests of food 

 producers reported to The Game Breeder 

 will be given full publicity and we shall 

 be glad to take a hand in defending the 

 new criminals just as we have taken a 

 hand in investigating and in some cases 

 defending successfully food producers 

 arrested by State wardens. 



The Toothsome Sections. 



Sec. 4. That persons appointed by the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture for the purpose of en- 

 forcing the provisions of this Act shall, with 

 respect thereto, have the same powers as are 

 conferred by law on marshals with respect to 

 executing the laws of the United States. Any 

 such person shall have authority, without war- 

 rant, to search any other than a dwelling, and, 

 with warrant, to search any dwelling, if he 

 shall have reason to suspect that there is con- 

 cealed therein any migratory bird, or any part, 

 nest, or egg thereof, which has been taken, 

 or is possessed, contrary to the provisions of 

 this Act or of any regulation made pursuant 

 thereto. The several judges of the courts 

 established under the laws of the United States 

 and United States commissioners may, within 

 their respective jurisdictions, upon propei 

 oath or affirmation showing probable cause, 

 issue warrants in such cases. All such migra- 

 tory birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, 

 when found shall be seized and held and, upon 

 conviction of the offender, shall be forfeited 

 to the United States and disposed of as di- 

 rected by the court. 



Sec 5. That any person, association, part- 

 nership, or corporation who shall violate any 

 of the provisions of said convention or of this 

 Act, or shall violate or fail to comply with 

 any regulation made pursuant to this Act. 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be fined not 

 more than $500, or be imprisoned not more 

 than six months, or both. 



Many people throughout the United 

 States now have and own migratory fowl 

 and at proper seasons have the eggs of 

 these birds in possession. If the new 

 army of game policemen raid these peo- 

 ple without warrant, as many food pro- 

 ducers have been raided in the United 

 States by State wardens, we would ad- 

 vise them not meekly to hand over $15,- 

 000 (the amount taken in one State raid) 

 or any other amount, but to defend their 

 property in the courts. We cannot be- 

 lieve the United States courts will be 

 inclined to send people to jail for having 



Our Attitude. 



We are not opposed to a proper na- 

 tional or State law prohibiting the killing 

 of wild migratory food birds during the 

 nesting season. Such a law easily can 

 be written and placed with other crim- 

 inal laws in the statute books where 

 those liable to arrest can ascertain what 

 the law says. We are opposed to turning 

 over the crime making power of the 

 United States to a few money-making 

 game law enthusiasts who are permitted 

 to make new crimes often and to publish 

 them in bulletins and who rely upon a 

 special force which will do things which 

 no self-respecting U. S. marshal would 

 ever think of doing. Food producers 

 should be as fairly treated as the rest of 

 the people are. They should not be regu- 

 lated by a force opposed to their industry. 



A Chance for the States and Terri- 

 tories. 



The bill generously provides that noth- 

 ing in it shall be construed to prevent 

 the several States and 'Territories from 

 making laws and regulations if they dis- 

 cover anything left undone in the way 

 of preventing "the hunting, taking, cap- 

 turing, killing, attempting to take, cap- 

 ture or kill, possessing, offering for sale, 

 selling, offering to purchase, purchasing, 

 delivering for shipment, shipping, caus- 

 ing to be shipped, delivering for trans- 

 portation, transporting or causing to be 

 transported by any means whatever, re- 

 ceiving for shipment," etc., etc., etc., not 

 to tire the reader with the elaborate de- 

 tailed restrictions. If the States can 

 discover anything to be done after these 

 national restrictions are elaborated into 

 detailed regulations for the bulletins, to 



