The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-05-15
OFFICIAL.
Acts and Joint Resolutions
Passed by. the General As
sembly Of South Carolina,
Regular Session, 1871 and
1872.

MAILS.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representa-.
tivcs of the State Of South Carroll
Ma, now met and sitting in Gene
raj Assembly, and by the authori-
ty Of the same:
That it shall not be lawfGl for
any person in this State to kill
any deer, or worry them with
dogs. or otherwise, with the in
tention Of destroying them, be-
tween the 1T day Of January and
the 1st day OF September, in any
year hereafter.
Sec. 2. That any person viola
ting the foregoing provision of
this Act, shall, apon conviction
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 compe-
tent Jurisdiction ; one. half thereof
shall 60 to the informer, and the
other half thereof to the school
fund Of the said County.
Sec. 5. That any person in whose
possession recently killed vcnison
or fresh deer skins shall be found,
between the dates above mention
ed, shall be liable TO the same pen
atty as those violating Section 2
Of this Act.
Sec. 4. That it shall not be law.
ful for any person, in this State.
between the 18th day of February
and the 18th day Of October, in
any year hereafter, TO catch, kill,
or injure, or to 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 fine, ii i'm
posed, shall go, one-half thereof TO
the School Fund Of the County
where the offence was com mitted.
SEC. 5. That it shall not be law
ful for any person in this State to
wantonly shoot, or entrap, for the
purpose of killing, or in any other
manner destroy any bind whose
principal food is insects, or take or
destroy the eggs or young of any
of the species Or varieties Of birds
that are protected by the provis-
ions Of this Act, comprising all the
species and varieties Of birds rep
resented by the several families Of
swallows, bats, whip-poor-wills,
fy-catchcrs, thrashers, warblers,
fnchcs, larks, orioles, nut -hatchers,
wood-peckers, humming- birds,
mocking birds, blue birds, red birds,
and robins, and all other species
and varieties of land birds, wheth-
er great or small, ofevery descrip-
ton, regarded as harmless in their
habits, and whose flesh is unfit for
food, including the turkey-buzzard,
but excluding the jackdaw, the
crow, the crow black bird, the eagle,
and all hawks and owls, which
prey upon other birds; and any
person violating the provisions Of
this Section shall. on conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay o fine Of
ten dollars, or be imprisoned not
less than ten days, which fine, if
imposed, shall 60, one-half to the
intormcr: and the other half to the
schoo! fund of the County in which
the offence was committed: Pro-
vided, That no person shall be pre-
vented from protecting any crop
Of fruit or grain on his own lands
from the deprcdations of any birds
herein intended to be protected.
SEC. 6. Whenever a person shall
have made or created an artificial
pond en- his own land, and shall
put therein any fish, Or the eggs
Of any fish Or oyster, for the pur-
pose of breeding and cultivating
fish or oysters. and shall give no.
tice thereof, by written or printed
handbills, put up in public places
near said pond and any person
VINO shall thereafter enter in or
about such pond for the purpose
Of fishing, or shall catch or take
away any fish or oysters there
from, or shall be guilty Of COM
mitting any trespass upon any ar
tifcial fish pond by fishing in the
same, or in any manner using any
means to destroy the fish or oys-
ters raised or collected in such
pond, or by breaking the dam or
dams for the purpose of permit.
ting the fish or oysters to escape,
or BY poisoning the same, or in
any manner destroying Or injur-
ing the same; and any such per-
son or persons. upon conviction,
shall be deemed guilty Of q misde-
meanor, and shall be subject to q
fine of rot less than twenty dol
lars nor more than one hundred
dollars, Or be imprisoned at the
discretion Of the Court !: which
fine, if imposed. shall go, one half
to the informer, and the other
.olf thereof to the person or per-
aEs uhnsa nronartE shall haYa