The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-23
A New Game Law.

The Legislature Of this State has pass
ed very stringent law for the preserva-
tion of game and insectivorous birds.
The bill provides that it shall not be law
ful for any person within the Common
wealth to shoot, kill, or in any way trap
or destroy any blue bird, swallow, martin,
or other inseetiverous bird at any season
OF the year; that no deer, fawn OF elk
shall be hunted or killed between the
lst of December and the 1st of Septem--
Der in any year; that no wild turkey,
pheasant or rabbit shall be hunted or
killed between the 1st of January and
the lst of September in any year; that
no partridge or quail shall be taken or,
killed between the 20th of December and
the 10th of October; no woodcock or
snipe shall be killed between the 1st of
March and the 1st of September; that no
wild turkey, pheasant, partridge, quail,
woodcock or snipe shall be trapped or
taken by means Of traps, nets, snares,.
springs or other means Of taking such
birds other than by shooting, at any time.
whatever, nor shall any trap, net or suare
be made, erected or set either wholly or
in part for the purpose of such trapping
or taking; that no eggs of any kind of
the birds above enumerated afe hereby
declared to be game, or any insectivorous
birds, shall be taken or destroyed at any
time.
Any offence against any provision of
this act shall be punished summarily, on
information and conviction before JUS
ticc of the peace, by fine not exceed
aaph of Iol
contravention hereof, in the discretion of.
such justice, with costs, or in default of
payment by Imprisonment in a common
jail for term not exceeding thirty days;
one-half Of the fine to go to the county
and the other half to the informer; that
in all cases confscation of the game shall
follow conviction, and the game so confs-
Gated shall be given to the informer;
that any person may destroy traps, nets
or snares set or erected either wholly or
in part in contravention of any provision
of this act.
La order to encourage persons who
have or may hereafter import different
kinds OF game with desire to breed
and preserve the same on their lands in
this Province, it is further enacted that
1t shall not be lawful to hunt, shoot, kill
or destroy any such game without the
consent OF the owner of the property,
wherein the same may have been bred,
That possession of the said wild tur-
keys, pheasant, partridges, quail, wood
cock or snipe, or either of them, shall be
and it is hereby made prina facie evil
dence of the fact that the person having
such possession has killed or trapped the
same, aud unless explained by such per-
son to the justice trying the case under
the provisions of the eighth section here
of, shall be sufficient to sustain recoye--
ry of the penalty thereby inflicted; pro-
vided, that an action be commenced un-
der the provisions of the said eighth
section within sixty days of the commit
ting of such offence; and provided fur
ther, that no catching or trapping of auy
of the aforesaid wild turkeys, pheasants.
partridges, quails, woodcock or snipe for
the purpose of saving their lives dur;ao
the winter season, or of preserving them
as pets, shall be deemed to be within the
penalties prescribed by this act.