Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-04-29

H~ TIE GAME LAw.-The follow
ing Act to protect birds and game was
passed by the last West Va. Legisla-
ture, which We copy for the information
of our people from the Acts just
published
/. That it shall be unlawful for any
person at any time to catch, kill or
injure, or to pursue with such intent,
any sparrow, robin, blue bird, martin,
mockiug bird, swallow, oriore, red
bird, grosbeak, cat bird, chewit, or
ground robin, pewee, or phoebe bird,
wren, cuckoo, indigo bird, nut-hath
creeper, yellow or fringilla yellow ham,
mer, or flicker, warbler, or finch, maris,
red start, dummock, nightingale, cross
bill, or corn-crane, hungarian robin,
great tit or blue tit.
2. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son in any place to catch, kill or injure,
or to pursue with such intent, any
quail, or virginia partridge, between the
first day of February, and the fifteenth
of October, inclusive; or any ruftied
grouse, pheasant, piunated grouse, or
prairie chicken, blue winged teal, NAL
lard, or wood duck, or other wild duck,
wild goose, or brant at any time be-
tween the first day of February and the
first day of September. And it shall
be unlawful for any person, at any
time, To catch by snare, net or trap, any
quail or virginia partridge. And it
shall be unlawful for any person, by the
use of any swivel or pivot gun. or any
other than the 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 to
pursue after with such intent, upon any
of the waters, bays rivers, marshes,
mud flats, or any cover to which wild
fowl resort within the Stale of West
Virginia, any wild goose, wild duck, or
brant.
8. And it shall be unlawful for any
person to destroy or disturb the eggs
of any OF the birds protected by this
act; and any person offending against
any of the foregoing provisions OF this
act, shall be fined in any sum not less
than two dollars nor more than twenty
five dollars for each offense on convic-
ton in the proper court or be imprison-
ed in the county Jail not more than
twenty days or both at the discretion
of the court, and pay the costs OF pros
ecution.
4. No person when shooting on the
land of another shall discharge any fire
arms On any lawn, pleasure ground,
orchard, or other gound which is direct
ly appurtenant to Or within gun shot OF
an occupied dwelling house. The pen
atty for violating this section shall be a
fine not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars, or be imprisoned not
more than twenty days or both at the
discretion of the court, and pay the
costs of prosecution.
5. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son to purchase or offer for sale any of
the birds or game mentioned in this act
caught or killed during the time, when
such catching, killing, or destroying is
made unlawful hereby. Any person
offending against the provisions of this
section, shall be liable to the same pen
atty as is provided in this act for catch
ing, killing or destroying such birds or
game.
6. That the exposure for sale of any
of the birds or game mentioned in this
act during the time when the killing
thereof is made unlawful shall be primd
facie evidence that the same was killed
or caught unlawfully within the state Of
West Virginia.
7. All prosecutions under this act
shall be in the name of the state OF
West Virginia, before any justice of
the peace, mayor or otherproper officers
having jurisdiction, and all fines impos-
ed or collected under this act, shall be
paid into the county treasury for the