70 FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
ACT OF CONGRESS KNOWN AS THE 
LACEY GAME LAW. 
[Public No. 119.] 
An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department 
of Agriculture, prohibit the transportation, by 
interstate commerce of game killed in violation 
of local laws, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted T)y the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the United States of America, in 
Congress assembled, That the duties and powers of 
the Department of Agriculture are hereby enlarged 
so as to include the preservation, distribution, intro- 
duction, and restoration of game birds and other 
wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 
authorized to adopt such measures as may be neces- 
sary to carry out the purposes of this Act and to 
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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 
restoration 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 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 Secretary of Agriculture shall make 
