THE GAME FIELD 
Some of the State laws are very explicit on 
the subject of marking. Nebraska requires all 
packages to be labeled with the address of the 
consignor and the amount of each kind of game 
contained in the package, and provides a fine 
of $10 to $50 for omission of these details. Ohio 
and North Carolina have similar requirements. 
Michigan requires all packages of game to be 
plainly marked on the outside with the names of 
the consignor and consignee, the initial point of 
billing and destination and an itemized state- 
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fish or game not properly marked may be 
seized and sold by game wardens. 
State Laws Prohibiting Export.—Since the 
constitutionality of the Connecticut statute pro- 
hibiting export of certain game was established 
by the Supreme Court in 1896, nonexport laws 
have been generally adopted, and at the present 
time every State prohibits the export of certain 
kinds of game. (See Fig. 3.) In some States 
sportsmen are allowed to carry a limited amount 
of game out of the State under special restric- 
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Fic. 1—States and Provinces which require residents to obtain hunting licenses 
ment of the quantity of game contained therein. 
Louisiana and Ontario insist that all packages, 
besides bearing a description of the contents and 
the names and addresses of owners, must be so 
made as to show the contents. Mississippi re- 
quires even more detail: the package must bear 
the names of consignor and consignee and an 
itemized statement of the species of game, and 
the contents must be packed so as to be readily 
seen. Several States require big game and 
game birds carried by sportsmen to be marked 
with the owner’s name, shipped as baggage and 
transported open to view. 
Railroad and express companies should call 
the attention of their agents to these provisions, 
and insist that all packages be properly marked 
before shipment. In Nebraska common car- 
riers are prohibited, under a penalty of $25 to 
$100, from receiving consignments of game not 
properly labeled. In Texas they may examine 
suspected packages, and in Arkansas they may 
cause them to be opened when necessary, and 
may refuse packages supposed to contain fish 
or game for export. In Wisconsin packages of 
tions, and exceptions to the laws prohibiting 
export are also made in the case of birds and 
animals intended for propagation. 
Restrictions on shipment from the State have 
now become so stringent that all the States and 
Territories west of the Mississippi River except 
two prohibit export of all game protected by 
local laws. Of the two exceptions, Iowa pro- 
hibits export of all game but shore birds, and 
Wyoming export of certain species. East of the 
Mississippi similar laws are in force in nearly 
all of the States north of the Ohio and Potomac 
rivers, and also in Tennessee, Virginia and 
West Virginia. The export of most if not all 
protected game taken within the State is pro- 
hibited in all these States except Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Dela- 
ware, Maryland, Illinois and Indiana, and in 
these export of certain kinds of game is illegal. 
Deer can be lawfully exported from only 
seven States—Delaware (where they do not 
occur), Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, 
North Carolina and Ohio. The export of deer 
hides is prohibited by special provisions in the 
