The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-05-08

GAME.
The New Law for Protection OF
Game in Ohio.

The following act was passed at
the recent session of the Ohio Leg
islature:
That it shall be unlawful for any
person, at any time, to catch, kill or
iDjure, or to pursue with such intent
on the public highways, streets, al
leys or public commons,any sparrow,
robin, blue bird, marten, thrush,
mocking bird, swallow, oriole, red
bird gross beak, cat bird, chrewit or
ground robin, pewee or phoebe bird,
wren, cuckoo, indigo bird,n hatch,
creeper, yellow bird, fringilla, yellow
hammer or flicker, warbler or finch,
vavis, red stark, dummock, nightin-
gale, cross bill, European quail or
corn crake, Hungarian robin, Euro
pean black bird, great tit or blue.
GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWLS.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, in any place, to catch,
kill or injure, or to pursue with such
intent any quail or Virginia part
ridge, or any wild turkey, between
the first day of January and the ff
teenth day of October inclusive;
or any rufted grouse or pheasant,
pinnated grouse or prairie chicken,
blue-winged teal, mallard or wood
duck, or other wild duck, wild goose
or brant, at any time between the
first day of January and the first day
of September, or at any time before
the first day of January and the
fourth day Of July, to catch, kill or
injure, or 10 pursue with such intent
any woodcock; or to catch, kill or
destroy, or to pursue with such in
tent, on the land of another, between
the first day of January and the
first day of October, any wild rabbit
or hare; and it shall be unlawful for
any person at any time to catch by
snare or trap any quail or Virginia
partridge; and it shall be unlawful
for any person, by the aid or use of
any swivel or punt gun, or any other
than the common shoulder gun, or
by the aid or use Of any push boat
or sneak boat, used for carrying such
gun, to catch, kill or wound, or de-
strOy, or to pursue after, with such
intent, upon any of the waters, bays,
rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any
cover to which wild fowl resort, with
in the State of Ohio, any wild goose,
or wild duck or brant.
SEC. 3. And it shall be unlawful
for any person to destoy or disturb
the eggs of any of the birds protected
by this act; and any person offend
ing against any Of the foregoing pro-
visions of this act, shall be fined in
any sum not less than two dollars
nor more than twenty-five dollars for
each offense, on conviction in the
proper court, or to be imprisoned in
the county jail not more than twenty
days, or both at the discretion of the |
court, and pay the costs of prosecu-
ton.
SEC. 4. No person, when shooting
on the land Of another, shall dis
charge any firearms on any lawn,
pleasure ground, orchard or other
ground, which is directly appurten-
ant to or within gun-shot of an oc-
cupied dwelling house. The penalty
for violating this section shall be a
fine of not less than five or moro
than twenty dollars,or be imprisoned
not more than thirty days, or both,
at the discretion of the Court, and
pay the cost of prosecution.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be unlawful to
shoot at, kill or pursue with such in
tent, on the inclosed or improved
lands Of another, any of the birds
or game protected by this act, after
receiving notice to leave said lands
or premises by the owner, his agent
or any person having charge thereof.
This notice may be verbal or written,
served on the party to be notified or
by putting up a board not less than
two feet long by one vide, inscribed
with legible character in English
that $40 hunting or shooting will
be allowed on these premises"
which shall be set up at least ten
feet from the ground on a post in
some conspicuous place on the prem
ses, either ofwhich shall be deemed