The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-04-22

AN All Tor the preservation OF game.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly
do enact as follows:
SEcnoN l. 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 4th
day of July and the first day of Decem
quail, partridge or ruffled grouse. except
between the Goth day of August and the
18th 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 exy yose
for sale, or shall have in his OF their pos
session 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 wood
cock, grouse, prairie hen or chicken
partridge, ruffed grouse or quail, shall
upon CONVICTION suffer a fine Of two dol
lars for each such woodcock, grouse
prairie hen or chicken, partridge, ruf1ed
grouse or quail so killed, destroyed or
taken, or pursued with intent to kill
destroy or take, or so sold or exposed for
sale, or so had in possession, together
with the costs of prosecution.
Sec. 3. No person or persons shall
kill or take by any device, means or con-
trivance 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 Janu-
airy and the first day of August. No
person corporation, railroad or express
company, or agent or employee thereof,
shall have in his or their possession, for
the purpose of transportation or other
wise, any deer, buck, doe or fawn between
the said 18th day of January and the first
day OF August; and every person or persons
corporation or company, and every agent
or employee thereof, who shall violate
the provisions of this section, shall upon
conviction thereof be subject to penalty
of ten dollars for each and every deer,
buck, doe and fawn, or skin or piece
thereof. killed, taken, sold, exposed tor
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 wontonly or maliciously break up,
take away, or In any manner interfere
with any nest, or the eggs tn ,rein, of any
prairie chicken or prairie hen, woodcock,
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 penalty
OF live dollars for every nest SO broken
up, destroyed, taken away or interfered
with, and of one dollarfor every such egg
so had in his or their possession, or SO
sold or exposed for sale, together with
the costs of prosecution. Every railroad
and every express company, and all
employees and agents thereof. who shall
have said eggs iii its, his or their possess
ion, shall be liable to the same penalty.
SEC. s. Justices of the peace shall have
cognizance and jurisdiction of all offenses
under this act, without regard to the
aggregate amount of fines imposed in any
one case. All prosecutions under this act
shall be deemed crimiaal proceedings,
and shall be conducted as provided by
law for the prosecution Of offences cog
nlzable before iu stices of the peace; and
In all cases of conviction under this act,
OliO VI al COlICCC-
ed shall be paid over by the justice or per-
son collecting the same, to the person who
shall make the complaint in the case.
Sec. 6. This act. except the fourth
section thereof, shall not affect unciyiliz-
ed Indians living north Of the counties of
Pierce, Dunn, Eau Claire, Clark, Wood,
Portage, Waupaca, Outagarnie, Ocento,
Brown and Door.
SEC. 7. All laws heretofore passed re-
lating to the preservation of game, are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage and publication, and shall
be published during the 1st week of April
in each year in some newspaper printed
and published at the county seat of each
county in the state, the expense of such
publication TO be paid out of the county
treasures Of the respective counties, and
it shall be the duty Of the county treas
urer of each county to cause such publ
cation to be made
Approved April 8. 1867.