14 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY [S. R. A. 
Sec. 393. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parta 
thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in inter- 
state or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the 
name and address of the shipper and the nature of the contents may be readily 
ascertained on an inspection of the outside of such package. (Act of March 
4, 1909. sec. 243—35 Stat. 1137.) 
Seo. 394. For each evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections 
last preceding the shipper shall be fined not more than $200 ; the consignee 
knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of 
6aid sections shall be fined not more than $200; and the carrier knowingly 
carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined 
not more than $200. (Act of March 4, 1909, sec. 244— 35 Stat. 1138.) 
Seo. 395. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game animals, 
or game or song birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild game animals, or game or song birds 
transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consump- 
tion, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be 
subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory 
enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same 
manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or 
Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced 
therein in "original packages or otherwise. This act shall not prevent the im- 
portation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from 
the feathers of barnyard fowl. (Act of May 25, 1900, sec. 5—31 Stat. 188.) 
[U. 8. Code, Title 16, Conservation] 
Seo. 701. That the duties and powers of the Department of Agriculture are 
hereby enlarged so as to include the preservation, distribution, introduction, and 
restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture 
is hereby authorized to adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out 
the purposes of this act and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds 
as may be required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States 
and Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the restora- 
tion of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto where 
the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the introduction 
of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have not here- 
tofore 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 Secretary of Agriculture shall make and publish all needful rules 
and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act, and shall expend for 
said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate therefor. (Act of May 
25, 1900, sec. 1—31 Stat. 187.) 
LAW PROTECTING WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS 
AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY ON FEDERAL REFUGES 
[U. S. Code, Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure] 
Seo. 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. (Act of March 4, 1909, sec. 84, as amended April 15, 1924, 
43 Stat. 98.) 
[U. S. Code, Supplement IV, Title 16. Conservation] 
Seo. 7151. No person shall knowingly disturb, injure, or destroy any notice, 
signboard, fence, building, ditch, dam, dike embankment, flume, spillway, or 
other improvement or property of the United States on any area acquired 
under this chapter, or cut, burn, or destroy any timber, grass, or other natural 
