II. ABSTRACTS OF LAWS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 
SHIPMENT AND SALE. 
FEDERAL LAWS. 
Federal game laws consist of statutes regulating interstate commerce 
in game, the importation of game from foreign countries, and pro- 
visions for the protection of game on territory under the jurisdiction 
of the L^nited States. The}' comprise (1) the Lacey Act, regulating 
the importation of game and its shipment from one State to another; {'J) 
tariff regulations governing animals and birds imported from abroad; 
(8) game laws of the District of Columbia, Alaska, and the Indian 
Territory'; (4) provisions for protecting game in the national parks, ^ 
forest reserves, and' other Government reservations. These acts of 
Congress are supplemented by regulations issued by the Secretaries of 
the Treasury. War, Interior, and Agriculture, relating chiefly to the 
protection of Government reservations and the details of importing 
foreign animals and birds.' 
The territor}' protected by Federal statutes comprises more than 20 
percent of the total area of the United States, and, besides the District 
of Columbia, the Indian Territor3% and Alaska, is made up of reserva- 
tions and parks ranging in size from a few acres to the great areas 
covered ])y the Indian reservations in Montana and South Dakota, 
which occupy a large part of those States. This vast domain is ver}' 
unevenh' protected. The District of Columbia, Avith an area of al)out 
70 square miles, has a fairty complete and satisfactor}^ game law, and, 
with the exception of Alexandria Count}', Va., is the smallest area in 
^ The national parks, now 12 in number, have all been established during the last 
thirty years. They may be grouped as follows: Five j^arks proper — Yellowstone, 
Wyo., 1872, 2,142,720 acres; Yosemite, Cal., 1890, 967,680 acres; Sequoia, Cal., 1890, 
160,000 acres; General Grant, Cal., 1890, 2,560 acres; Mount Rainier, Wash., 1899, 
207,360 acres: five military parks — Chickamauga, Ga., 1890, 6,195 acres; Shiloh, 
Tenn., 1894, 3,000 acres; Vicksburg, Miss., 1899, 1,233 acres; Gettysburg, Pa., 1895, 
877 acres; Antietam, Md., 1890, 43 acres: the Hot Springs Reserve, Ark., 1880, 912 
acres, and the Ca^a Grande Ruins, Ariz., 1892, part of 480 acres. The first five only 
are of special interest from the standpoint of game protection. 
■■^The regulations of the Department of Agriculture may be found in Circular 29 of 
the Biological Survey, entitled 'Protection and importation of birds under act of 
Congress approved 'Slay 25, 1900,' and Circular 30, entitled ' Wild animals and l^rds 
which may be imported without permits.' 
