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![handle is hein.animal/pibac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ]BIOLOGICA, SURVEY CIRCULAR No. 14.
United States Department of Agriculture.
PROTECTION ANA) IMPORTATION OF BIRDS UNDER ACT OF CONGLESS
APPROVED MAY 25, 1900.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, D. C., July 13, 1900.
The Act of May 25, 1900, commonly known as the Lacey Act, (1)
places the preservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of
game and other birds under the Department of Agriculture; (2)
regulates the importation of foreign birds and animals, prohibiting
absolutely the introduction of certain injurious species; and (3) pro-
hibits interstate traffic in birds or game killed in violation of State
laws. The Act reads as follows:
An Act to enlarge tie 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 by the Senate and house of Representatives 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,
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 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 introduc-
tion 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 pre,-ervation 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.
SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any )erson or persons to import into the
United States any foreign wild animal or bird except under special permit from
the United States Department of Agriculture: Provided. That nothing in this
section shall restrict the importation of natural history specimens for museums
or scientific collections, or the importation of certain cage birds, such as domes-
ticated canaries, parrots, or such other species as the Secretary of Agriculture
may designate.
The importation of the mongoose, the so-called flying foxes or fruit bats,
the English spai row, the starling, or such other birds or animals as the Secretary
of Agriculture may from time to time declare injurious to the interest of agri-
culture or horticulture is hereby prohibited, and such species upon arrival at any
of the ports of the United States shall be destroyed or returned at the expense of
the owner. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make regula-
tions for carrying into effect the provisions of this section.
SEC. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to deliver to any
common carrier, or for any common carrier to transport from one State or Ter-
ritory to another State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia or Alaska
to any State or Territory, or from any State or Territory to the District of
Columbia or Alaska, 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 in violation of the laws of the State,
Territory, or District in which the same were killed: Provided, That nothing](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.animal/pibac0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)