The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-07-10

GAME LAW.-COnSlueraDle ullIer-
ence of opinion having prevailed a.
mOng our people as to the character of
the game law passed by the last legis-
lature for this county, we have made
application at the Executive office, at
Harrisburg, for information upon the
subject. Through the kindness of b.
f. Chandler, Esq, of the Executive
department, we are enabled to lay be-
fore our readers, the only Ia,0 in regard
to game that was passed last winter,
for this county. 1t is an act extending
the provisions of the following act to
the counties of Bedford and Fulton,
and, as will be seen, applies only to
wild turkeys and squirrels:
AN A or For the protection Of a0ild tlT-
keys and squirrels, and for other pla'-
poses, IN the county Of Huntington.
Section-1. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House Of Representative of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, and it is here
by enacted by the authority of the same,
That from and after the passage of this
act it shall not be lawful for any per-
son to shoot any wild turkey, within
the county of Huntingdon, in said
commonwealth, between the first day
of February and the fifteenth day of
October; nor shall any person trap,
pen, or snare, any wild turkey, or mo-
lest the nest thereof, or build any pen,
or set any trap, or snare with the in
tention of catching any wild turkey,
at any season Of the year, under pen
atty Of ten dollars, with costs of prose
cutiOn, for each and every offence.
Section 2.-That no person shall
make, build or construct, any blind,
screen, or cover, within said county,
either for himself, or other person, or
take advantage of any blind, screen, or
cover, which is, or may hereafter be,
constructed, expressly for the purpose,
and with the intention, of shooting
wild turkey Hherefrom, or shall entice
and allure by repeated feeding, to a
particular place, for the purpose of ly-
ing in cOncealment and killing, at any
season of the year, under a penalty
of ten dollars with costs of prosecution,
for each and every offence.
Section 3.-That no person shall
shoot, or otherwise catch, or destroy,
any grey Or black squirrel, within the
said county, between the first day of
February and fourth Of July, under a
penalty Of two dollars and fifty cents
with costs of prosecution, for each and
every offence.
Section 4.-That the possession, by
any person, of any wild turkey, or
squirrel, killed out Of the season allow
ed therefor by this act, shall be
prinld .fdcid evidence to convict, under
this act.
Section 5.-That any person often
ding against any of the provisions of
this act, and being thereof convicted,
by the testimony of one, or more, wit
nesSeS, or the confession of the party,
before any justice of the peace in said
county, shall, for every such offence,
forfeit and pay the penalty, or penal
ties, attached to the same, One-halftO the
use of the county, and the other half to
the use of the infOrmer; and if the often
der shall refuse to pay the said penalty,
or penalties, he shall be committed by
the justice, to the county Jail, for the
space of one day, for each and every
dollar of the penalty imposed upon him
according to this act: PrOUided, That in
formation be made within thirty days
after the commission of the offence.
Section 6-That for the purpose of
further protecting game and insectivor-
Gus birds, whenever any person, after
the passage of this act, has killed any
fox, wild cat, pole cat, hawk or OWL,
within said county, and produced, in the
case of Il fox, or wild cat, orpOlec cat, the
scalp, and in the case of a hawk, Or owl,
the scalp and the exact measure, from
the extremity OF one wing to the eX-
tremity of the other, before any justice
of the peace in and for said county, it
shall be the duty Of said justice to eX-
anime such person, on oath, or affirma-
ton, touching the time when, and the
place where, such fox, wild cat, pole
cat, hawk, or owl, was killed; and if
the same shall be found to have been
within said county, it shall be the du-
ty of the said justice to give an order
to the treasurer of said county, for
the sum of two dollars for each and
every scalp of full grown fox, or wild
cat, and for the sum of one dollar for
each and every scalp of a fox, or wild
eat less than full grown, and every
hawk, or owl, exceeding three feet in
extremity of one wing to the en-
tremity of the other, and the sum
of fifty cents for each and every pole
cat, and each and every hawk, or owl,
less than three feet from the extremity
of one wing to the extremity of the
other and it shall be the duty of the
treasurer to pay the amount ofsuch or
der.
Section THAT the constable of each
respective township and borough in
said county, having knowledge of any
offence against this act, shall inform
any justice of the peace in said county,
of the name and residence of any such
offender, that he may be tried, agrea-
bly, to the provisions of this act, under
a penalty of ten dollars, to be sued for
and appropriated, as other penalties
mentioned in this act are directed to
be sued for and appropriated.
Section S.-That any act, or acts, or
part Of any act, oracts, conflicting with
this act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
JOHN p. GLASS,
! Speaker of the House of Representa-
tiVeS.
LOUIS w. HALL,
Speaker of Senate.
APPROVED-The eighth day of A
! pril, Ammo DOmini one thousand eight
| hundred and SiXty-seven.
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