B. S. 68] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 13 
where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the intro- 
duction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have 
not heretofore existed. 
The Secretary of Agriculture shall from time to time collect and publish 
useful information as to the propagation, uses, and preservation of such birds. 
And the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all needful rules 
and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act, and shall expend 
for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. 
Sec. 5. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game animals, 
or game or song birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild game animals, or game or song birds 
transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consump- 
tion, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be 
subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory 
enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same 
manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or 
Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced 
therein in original packages or otherwise. This act shall not prevent the im- 
portation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from 
the feathers of barnyard fowl. 
LAW PROTECTING WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS 
ON FEDERAL REFUGES 
Act of March 4, 1909, as Amended April 15, 1924 
[43 Stat. 9S] 
Sec. 84. Whoever shall hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird 
or wild animal of any kind whatever, or take or destroy the eggs of any such 
bird on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved 
as refuges or breeding grounds for such birds or animals by any law, procla- 
mation, or Executive order, except under such rules and regulations as the 
Secretary of Agriculture may. from time to time, prescribe, or who shall will- 
fully injure, molest, or destroy any property of the United States on any such 
lands shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than six 
months, or both. 
HUNTING ON NATIONAL FORESTS 
Regulation T-7, effective October 1, 1919, of the Regulations of the Forest 
Service relative to National Forests, provides as follows : 
The following acts are probihited on lands of the United States • within 
national forests : 
The going or being upon any such land, or in or on the waters thereof, with 
intent to hunt, catch, trap, willfully disturb, or kill any kind of game animal, 
game or nongame bird, or fish, or to take the eggs of any such bird, in violation 
of the laws of the State in which such land or waters are situated. 
Regulation G-30 authorizes all forest officers to enforce the above regula- 
tion and also to cooperate with State or Territorial officials in the enforcement 
of local laws for the protection of birds, fish, and game. 
FIRES ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 
Criminal Code— Act of March 4, 1909 
[35 Stat. 1098] 
Sec 52. Whoever shall willfully set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any 
timber, underbrush, or grass upon the public domain, or shall leave or suffer 
fire to burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable material, shall 
be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. 
