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REGULATION 4.— ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS AND SHOOTING. 
The killing of any of the following land fur-bearing animals, viz, white fox, blue 
fox, red fox, cross fox, black or silver fox, mink, marten (American sable), weasel 
(ermine), otter I land;, muskrat, and beaver by use of a jack or pit lamp or any other 
artificial light, or by shooting with either a rifle, shotgun, or pistol, is prohibited at 
all times. 
REGULATION 5.— TRAPS. 
The killing of any land fur-bearing animal at any time by means of the trap or 
device known as the "klips," or by means of any steel bear trap or any other trap 
with ja^s having a spread exceeding 8 inches is prohibited. 
REGULATION 6.— DOGS. 
The use of dogs for pursuing and killing any land fur-bearing animal for which a 
close season is prescribed for any period is prohibited. 
REGULATION 7.— POISON. 
The killing of any land fur-bearing animal by means of strychnine or any other 
poison ie prohibited at all times. 
Note.— The Criminal Code of Alaska Title I. chap. 13, sec. 186) provides that all 
persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the 
act constituting the crime or aid and abet in its commission, though not present, 
are principals, and to be tried and punished as such. By this section any person 
knowingly sslling poison for the purpose of killing land fur-bearing animals is a 
participator in the crime and is likewise punishable. 
REGULATION 8.— SEIZURE OF SKINS. 
All skins of land fur-bearing animals killed in violation of these regulations found 
in the possession of any person in Alaska shall be seized by wardens and other officers 
designated by the Secretary of Agriculture, or other officers authorized by law, and 
such wardens and other officers shall hold said skin3 for such disposition as shall be 
ordered by the court having jurisdiction of a suit for condemnation and forfeiture 
thereof. 
Shipments of fur from Alaska, whether shipped as personal baggage or otherwise, 
will be subject to examination by proper authorities and may be detained if the ship- 
ment was made in violation of these regulation-. 
REGULATION 9.— PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL SHIPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION. 
The following statute (act Mar. 4, 1909, 35 Stat., 1137-1138) will be strictly enforced: 
Sec 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common carrier 
for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any State, Terri- 
tory, or Di-trict of the United States, to any other State, Territory, or District 
thereof, any foreign animals or birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or 
the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such animals 
or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws of the State, Terri- 
tory, or District in which the same were killed, or from which they were shipped: 
Provided, That nothing herein ..hall prevent the transportation of any dead birds 
or animal- killed during the season when the same may be lawfully captured, 
and the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, Territory, or 
District in which the same are captured or killed: Provided further, That nothing 
herein shall prevent the importation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird 
plumage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard fowl.-. 
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Sec. 244. For ea''h evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections 
last preceding the shipper shall be fined not more than two hundred dollar^: the 
