12 BUKEAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A 
LACEY ACT, REGULATING INTERSTATE COMMERCE IN GAME 
Federal laws affecting the shipment of game comprise statutes regulating 
interstate commerce in game and the importation of birds and mammals from 
foreign countries, as follows : 
Criminal Code— Act of March 4, 1909 
135 Stat. 1137] 
Sec. 241. The importation into the United States, or any Territory or District 
thereof, of the mongoose, the so-called " flying foxes," or fruit bats, the English 
sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secretary of 
Agriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the interests of 
agriculture or horticulture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and ani- 
mals shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed or 
returned at the expense of the owner. No person shall import into the United 
States or into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild animal or bird, 
except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture : Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural-history speci- 
mens for museums or scientific collections, or of certain cage birds, such as 
domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds as the Secretary of Agri- 
culture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section. 
Sec. 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common 
carrier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any 
Staie. Territory, or District of the United States to any other State, Territory, 
or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which 
is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, 4 
where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws 
of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from 
which they were shipped: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the 
transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the season when the 
same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited 
by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or 
killed: Provided further. That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, 
transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers 
of barnyard fowls. 
Sec. 243. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts 
thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in inter- 
state or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the 
name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents may be readily 
ascertained on an inspection of the outside of such package. 
Sec 244. For each evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections 
last preceding, the shipper shall be fined not more than $200: the consignee 
knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of 
said sections shall be fined not more than .$200: and the carrier knowingly 
carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined 
not more than $200. 
Sections 1 and 5— Act of May 25, 1900 5 
[31 Stat. 187-188] 
That the duties and powers of the Department of Agriculture are hereby 
enlarged so as to include the preservation, distribution, introduction, and 
restoration of game birds and oth r wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture 
is hereby authorized to adopt such measures as may lie necessary to carry out 
tin' purposes of this act and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds 
as may he required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various 
Slates and Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the 
restoration of such birds in ih<>se parts of the United states adapted thereto 
1 Sec s<t. i of the migratory-bird treaty act. p. to, which supersedes this pari of the 
Lacey Art relative to the Interstate transportation of wild i>irds. 
C8. li. 3, and t superseded by sees, -ti 244 of the Criminal Code ad of Mar. 4, 1909 
(35 Stat. 1 L37). 
