The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-10
AN ACT for the Protection and Preservation OF
Useful Animals.

APRAoVS~
AN ACT for the Protection and Preservation OF
Useful Animals.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State OF
South Carolina, now met and sitting In Gen.
eral Assembly, and by the authority OF the
same:
That It shall not be lawful for any persona
this State to kill any deer, or worry them with
dogs or otherwise, with the intention OF de-
stroyiug them, between the first day Of Janu-
airy and the first day Of December, In any year
hereafter.
SEC. 2. That any person violating the fore
going provisions Of this act, shall, upon con-
yictlon thereof, be fined not less than twenty
| dollars, or be imprisoned not less than twenty
DAYS, which fine, If imposed, shall be recover
able before any court of competent %jurisdic-
| tlon; one half thereof shall go to the inforner,
| and the other half thereof to the school fund
| Of the said county.
SEC. 8. That any person In whose posses
| sion recently killed venison or fresh deer
skins shall be found, between the dates above
mentioned, ehsll be liable to the same penalty
as those violating section 2 Of Shls act.
SEC. 4. That 1t shall not be lawful for any
person, In this State, between the 18th Gay of
February and The 18th day of October, In any
year hereafter, to catch, kill, or iDjure, or 10
pursue with such intent, or to sell or expose
for sale any wild turkey, partridge, dove,
woodcock, snipe or pheasant; and any person
found guilty thereof shall be fined not less
than ten dollars, or be imprisoned not less
than ten days, which fne, II imposed, shall go
one.half thereof to the informer, and the
other half to the school fund Of the county
where the offence was committed.
Sec. S. That 1t shall not be lawful for any
person In this State to wantonly shoot or en-
trap, for the purpose Of killing, or In any other
manner destroy, any bird whose principal 1000
is insects, or take or destroy the G. or young
of any of the species or varieties Of birds that
are protected by the provisions of this act
comprising all the species and varieties Of
birds represented by the several families OF
swallows, bats, whIp.poor-wills, fy-catchera,
thrashers, warblers, fnehes, larks, orioles, nut
hatohers, wood.peckers "a, h~umming-birds mock
ipp birds. blue birds, red birds and robins, and
and all other species and varieties ofland birds,
whether great or small, of every description,
regarded as harmless In their habits, and whose
flesh is unfit for food, including the turkey
buzzard, but excluding the jaekdaw, the crow,
| the crow blackblrd, the eagle, and all hawks
and owls, which prey upon other birds; and
| suy person violating the provisions of this
seclion shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit
and paw a fine of ten dollars, or be imprisoned
not less than ten days, which fine, If imposed,
shall 90, one.half to the infermer, and the
other half to the school fund of the county In
which the offence was committed: Provided,
That no person shall be prevented from pro-
tecting any crop of fruit or grain on his W
lands from the depredations OF any birds here
in intended to be protected.
Sec. g.. Whenever a person shall have MADE
or created an artificial pond on his own land,
and shall put therein any fish, or the eggs OF
any fish or oyster, for the purpose OF breeding
and culiiyating fish or oysters, and shall give
notice thereof, by written or printed handbills,
nut I'D in public places near said pond; and
any person who shall thereafter enter IN or
about such pond for the purpose OF fishing, or
shall catch, or take away any fish or oysters
therefrom, or shall be guilty of committing any
trespass upon any artificial fish pond by fishing
in the same, or In any manner using any
meass to destroy the fish or oysters raised or
collected In such pond, or by breaking the dam
or dams for the purpose Of permitting the fish
or oysters to escape, or by poisoning the same,
or In any manner destroying or injuring the
same; and any such person orlpersons, upon
conviction, shall be deemed guilty Of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be subject to a fine Of
mt lass than twenty dollars nor mora thar