The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-21
THE NEW GAME LAW.
The Changes-What Game II and what Is not Pro-
tected-POaching Prohibited.

The following is the amended sections
of the game law, as recently passed. II
is made unlawful to kill quail or prairie
chickens until the 18Th of November,
1877. Wild geese and rabbits are not
protected. The time of killing ducks is
extended from the first day of January
to the first day of April, each year. The
notice system is extended to uninclosed
lands, provided boundaries are defined
by setting out posts or otherwise. All
technicalities are stricken from the form
of the notice:
SECTIoN 2. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, at any time, or in any place,
to catch, kill, or injure, or to pursue
with such intent, any quail or prairie
chicken, until the 18th of November,
1877; and it shall be unlawful for any
person, in any place, after the expiration
of said time, to catch, kill, or injure, or
to pursue with such intent, any quail or
Virginia partridge, between the first day
of January and the first day of Novem-
Der inclusive; or any wild turkey, be-
tween the fifteenth day of January and
the first day of November, inclusive; or
any ruffied grouse or pheasant, or blue
winged teal, between the first day of
January and the first day of September;
or any mallard or wood duck, or other
wild duck, at any time between the first
day of April and the first day of Sep
tember, or at any time between the first
day of January and the fourth day of
July, to catch, kill, or iDjure, or to pur
sue with such intent, any woodcock;
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 a common shoulder gun, or
by the aid of any push boat or sneak
boat, used for carrying such gun, to
catch, kill, or wound, or destroy, or pur-
sue after, with such intent, upon any of
the waters, bays, rivers, marches, mud
flats, or any cover to which wild fowl
resort, within the State of Ohio, any
wild goose, wild duck, or brent.
SECTION 5. II shall be unlawful to
shoot, kill, or pursue with such intent,
on the lands of another, any of the birds
or game protected by this act, after re-
ceiving notice to leave said land or
premises, by the owner. his agent, ANY
person having charge tnereo1; PROVIDED,
that uninclosed and unimproved lands
shall not be entitled to the protection of
this act, unless the boundaries of said
lands shall be so defined by the setting of
stakes or posts, or water courses or
bitches, or marking of trees, as to make
said lines of boundaries apparent and
easily traced The notice may be verbal
or written; served on the party to be
notified, or by putting up a board, in
scribed with legible characters il En-
glish, thus: mo shooting or hunting
will be allowed on these premises"
which shall be set up in some con-
spicuous place on the premises, either
Of which will be deemed sufficient notice:
that nothing in this section
shall apply to any person who has ex-
press permission from the owner, or per-
son in lawful possession of land, to hunt
Dr. shoot thereon, until permission is