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Regulations Prescribed by the State Game Commissioner, May 1, 1899. 
In pursuance of authority conferred by law on the commissioner [see Div. A, sec. 
7], the following additional regulation?;, forms and instructions are prescribed: 
Domestic game, Sale prohibited: Sec. 12. Domestic game and fish taken as 
above cannot lawfully be disposed of to another except by actual bona fide dona- 
tion. When disposed of in any other way they are not lawfully in possession and 
are subject to seizure. 
.Sec. 13. When such game or fish have been donated to another the maker of the 
certificate should endorse the fact on the certificate and sign the same. 
Sec. 14. Such certificate when correctly filled in, dated and signed by the person 
originally taking the game or fish therein described (and indorsed as above when 
lonated to another) will be deemed prima facie e\'idence of lawful posse.ssion, and 
authority to transport and store the same within the state during the open season 
and for five days thereafter. 
Imported game: Sec. 19. Game and fish for general use may be imported from 
states an<l territories which do not prohibit the sale therein of game and fish from this 
state. As at present athised, none of the western states or territories have laws of 
that character, and therefore until further notice, importations may l)e made from 
any state or territory. 
Sec 21. Before breaking bulk and exposing or offering importe<l game or fish for 
sale (or before using, if intended for use by the person importing the same), the 
above [an] invoice must be presented to the commissioner and an importation cer- 
tificate procured as provided in the law, authorizing sale and use within the state. 
Sec 22. An importation certificate is not a license to sell generally, but applies 
only to the shipment for which oVjtameil. A certificate must be obtained for each 
shipment. For game or fish of kinds not protected by the law, no certificate is 
required. 
CONNECTICUT. 
Public Acts of 1901, chap. 140, pp. 1276-1278. 
ARTICLE II. 
Shipment: Sec 16. Quail, woodcock, and partridge or ruffed grouse, shall not be 
transported in this state except when accompanied by the actual owner, and no 
person shall transport or accompany, within the limits of this state, more than 
thirty-six partridges or ruffed grouse in any calendar year. No person shall at any 
time kill any quail, wootlcock, partridge, or ruffed grouse, for the purpose of trans- 
porting the same l^eyond the limits of this state or transport any such birds in any 
package, unless the kind and niunber of such birds shall l^e plainly marked on the 
outside of said package; or shall transport or have in his jDOSsession, with intent to 
procure the transix)rtation l^eyond said limits, any of such birds killed within this 
state. The reception, by any person or common carrier within this state, of any 
-uch bird or birds for shipment in an unmarked package or addressed to a point 
without the state shall be prima facie e\"idence that said bird or birds were killed 
within the state for the purpose of carrj'ing the same beyond its limits. 
Game birds defined: Sec 19. * * * For the purposes of this act the follow- 
ing only shall be considered game birds: The Anatidae, commonly known as swans, 
geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the RalUdie, commonly known as rails, 
coots, mud-hens, and gallinules; the Limicol*. commonly known as shore birds, 
plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers, and curlews; the Galhnae, 
commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges, 
and quails. * * * 
