Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-08
The Amended Game Law of the
State Of Wisconsin.
CHAPTER 7S-GENERAL.

/ CHAPTER tO-UENEhAh.
AN ACT for the preservation of game.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, rep
| resented in senate and assembly. do en-
act as follows:
SECTION /. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person to kill, destroy or take, or pursue
with intent to kill, destroy, or take any
| woodcock, except between the fourth day
of July and the first day of December, or
any grouse, prairie hen or chicken, quail,
partridge or. ruffied grouse, except between
the TWENTIETH day of AUGUST and
the fifteenth day Of December.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall
violate the preceding section, and every
person or corporation, railroad company,
or express company, and every employee
thereof, who shall sell or expose for sale,
or shall have any in his or their possession
or custody, with intent to sell, dispose of
or transport or otherwise, during the times
when the killing of the same is prohibited
by this act, any woodcock, grouse, prairie
hen or chicken, partridge, ruffied grouse
or quail, shall upon conviction suffer fine
of two dollars for each such woodcock,
grouse, prairie hen or chicken, partridge,
ruffled grouse or quail so killed, destroyed
or taken, or pursued with intent to kill,
destroy or take, or SO s,ld or exposed for
sale, or so had in possession, together with
the costs of prosecution.
Sec. 8. No person or persons shall kill
or take by any device, means or contri-
vance whatever, or sell or expose for sale,
or worry or hunt the same with hounds or
dogs, any deer, buck, doe or fawn, between
the fifteenth day of January and the first
day of August. No person or corporation,
railroad or express company, or agent or
employee thereof, shall have in his or their
possession, for the purpose of transporta-
ton or otherwise, any deer, buck, doe or
fawn between the said fifteenth day Of JAN
uary and the first day of August; and ev-
cry person or persons, corporation or COM
pany, and every agent or employee thereof,
who shall violate the provisions of this Sec
ton shall upon conviction thereof be sub
ject to penalty of ten dollars for each and
every deer, buck, doe and fawn, or skin or
piece thereof, killed, taken, sold, exposed
for sale, or had in possession contrary to
the provisions of this section, together with
the costs of prosecution.
Sec. 4. Any person or persons who
shall wantonly or maliciously break up,
destroy, take away, or in any manner in
terfere with any nest, or the eggs therein,
ofany prairie chicken, or prairie n,wood
cock, snipe, partridge, ruff1ed grouse, quail,
any species of wild duck, brant or wild
goose, or who shall have the eggs thereof
in his, or their possession, or shall sell or
expose for sale the said eggs, shall upon
conviction thereof be subject to a penalty
of FIVE dollars for every nest so broken up,
destroyed, taken or interfered With, and of
one dollar for every such egg so had in his
or their possession, or so sold or exposed
for sale, together with the costs of prose-
cution. Every railroad and every express
company, and all employees and agents
thereof, who shall have such eggs in its,
his or their possession, shall be liable to
the same penalty.
Sec s. Justices Of the peace shall have
cognizance and jurisdiction of all offences
under this act, without regard to the ag-
gregate amount of fines imposed in any
one case. All prosecutions under this act
| shall be deemed criminal proceedings, and
shall be conducted as provided by law for
| the prosecution Of offenses cogniZable be-
fore justices of the peace and in all cases
of conviction under this act, one-half of all
fines and penalties collected shall be paid
over by the justice or persons collecting
the same, to the person who shall make
the complaint in the case.
Sec. 6. This act, except the fourth sec
ton thereof, shall not affect uncivilzed In
dians living north of the counties Of Pierce,
Dunn, Eau Claire, Clark, Wood, Portage,
Waupacca, Outagamie, Oconto, Brown and
Door.
Sec. Z. All laws heretofore passed rela-
ting to the preservation of game are here
by repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage and publication, and shall be
published during the first week of April in
each year in some newspaper printed and
published at the county seat of each coun-
| ty in the state, the expense of such publ.
cation to be paid cut Of the county treasu-
ries of the respective counties; and it shall
be the duty of the county treasurer of each
county to cause such publication to be
made.
Approved, April 3, 1867.
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