B. S. 70] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 13 
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 Se<-retary of Agriculture shall mako and publish ali needful rules 
and regulations for carrj'ing out the purposes of this act, and shall exi)end 
for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. (Sec. 1, act 
of May 2a 1900—31 Stat. 187.) 
LAW PROTECTING WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS 
AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ON FEDERAL REFUGES 
[Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, Title 18, U. S. Code] 
Sec. 145. 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. (Sec. 84, act of March 4, 1909, as amended April 15, 1924, 
43 Stat 98-) 
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 prohibited 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 oflicers to enforce the above regula- 
tion and also to cooperate with State or TeiTitorial ofiicials in the enforcement 
of local laws for the protection of birds, fish, and game. 
FIRES ON PUBLIC DOMAIN 
[Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, Title 18, U. S. Code] 
Sec. 106. 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. 
(Sec. 52. act of March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1098.) 
Sec. 107. Whoever shall build a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other 
inflammable material upon the public domain shall, before leaving said fire, 
totally extinguish the same: and whoever shall fail to do so shall be fined 
not more than $1,000. or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Sec. 
53. act of March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1098. ) 
PROVISIONS OF TARIFF ACT REGULATING IMPORTATION OF 
PLUMAGE, GAME, ETC. 
[Act of September 21, 1922, 42 Stat. 915— Chapter 3, Title 19, U. S. Code] 
Par. 1419. Feathers and downs, on the skin or otherwise, crude or not 
dressed, colored, or otherwise advanced or manufactured in any manner, not 
specially provided for. 20 per centum ad valorem ; dressed, colored, or otherwise 
