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the tenth day of November and the fifteenth day of December, inclusive; or any of 
the song or insectivorous birds mentioned in section 6960; or whoever shall at any 
time, catch or kill, any quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse or pheasant, prairie chicken, 
woodcock, squirrel, Mongolian pheasant, or English or ring-neck pheasant, for the 
purpose of conveying the same beyond the limits of this State, or for sale in the 
markets of this State, or shall transport or have in possession with intent to procure 
the transportation beyond the limits of this State, or for sale in the markets of this 
State, any quail, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, or pheasant, prairie chicken, woodcock, 
squirrel, Mongolian pheasant, or English or ring-neck pheasant, killed within this 
State, shall be fined as provided in section 6968. And in addition thereto, shall be 
liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each bird trapped or possessed contrary 
to the provisions of this act. The reception by any person within this State of any 
such birds, game or animals, for shipment to a point without the State, shall be 
prima facie evidence that such birds, game or animals were killed within this State 
for the purpose of conveying the same l)eyond its limits; Provided, that the provi- 
sions of this act shall not be construed as applicable to any common carrier into 
whose possession any of the birds, game or animals herein mentioned, shall come in 
the regular course of their business for transportation, while they are in transit 
through this State from any place without this State, where the killing of such birds, 
game or animals shall be lawful, but nothing in the provisions of this act shall pre- 
vent any one having in his possession wild deer during the time when the killing 
thereof is made penal. Any game warden or deputy game warden in this State 
shall have authority and right, at any time, to open packages, boxes, crates or other 
receptacles containing the birds, game or animals prohibited by this act from being 
transported without the limits of this State, delivered to a common carrier for trans- 
portation out of the State, and shall take and confiscate such birds, game or animals 
about to be transported out of the State and deliver them to some hospital, infirm- 
ary or charitable institution. 
Passed April 12, 1898. 
Penalties: Sec. 6968. [Any person convicted of any violation of any oi the pro- 
visions of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than 
one hundred (100) dollars, and in case of neglect or refusal to j^ay said fine, be 
imprisoned in the county jail or workhouse, and shall there remain for the full 
period of thirty days. (Revised Statutes, 1897.)] 
OKLAHOMA. 
Session Laws of 1899, Chap. XV, pp. 165-167. 
Legal sale: Sec. 3. Any person having lawfully taken any of the game mentioned 
in this Act, or any person lawfully having any of said game [prairie chicken, 
grouse, quail, wild turkey, plover, dove] in his possession, may sell the same to 
persons living in the Territory of Oklahoma, for consumption therein. 
Imported g-ame: Sec. 4. No person shall at any time have in possession or under 
control any birds, game or fish caught, taken or killed outside of this Territory, 
which was caught, taken or killed at a time, in a manner, or for a purpose forbidden 
by the laws of this Territory or the State, Territory or country where the same was 
caught, taken or killed, or which was shipped out of said State, Territory or country 
in violation of the laws thereof. 
Evidence: Sec. 5. [Possession^ of birds or game at a time prohibited by the laws 
of this Territory shall be prima facie evidence that it Vvas killed in this Territory. 
Whenever it shall appear that any birds or game, the killing of which is at any time 
prohibited by the laws of this Territory, was killed outside of this Territory, it shall 
be prima fade evidence that such bird or game was killed at a time, in a manner, 
