New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-25
NEW LAWS ON ADJUSTMENTS.

The forthcoming volume OF the session
Laws will be worth examining for the new
regulations affecting the amusements anu
recreatiOns of the people. This topic GER
tainly was not neglected by the Legsla-
ture of 1879 By one of the new laws any
historical society in the State is authorized to
acquire and hold, for the purposes of inclO-
sure and preservation and the erection or an
appropriate monument, the site Of any notable
battle or old fort and the land thus acquired
by any society Is declared exempt from taxa
ton. Some restrictions are imposed. so
ciety must not take up more than six acres in
any one locality. 1t cannot use the land for
apv PURPOSES of business And it must not
exact fees from visitors.
Another of the new laws is designed to sup
press the dangerous shows which have been
practised in some Of the lower grade halls !
and may even require opera managers to re-
consider the incidents of William Tell and
Der Freischdtz. 1t forbids the occupant OF
aTy place of amusement, or grounds or build
ia. 20 allow his place to be used for an ex-
hibinOn of skill IN knife or sword throwing,
or 10 allow bowgun, pistol or flrearm of any
kind 70 b. discharged at or aimed toward any
human being. II the stringent language, of
this law II not tempered somewhat In its adj
ministratlon, good many dramas will need TO
be recOnstruct, !. Some such prohibition Is
undoubtedly w olesOme. Hardly year ago
the country was shocked by fatal casualty to
an actress, I'm plly involving an apple on the
head of one perlOrme-, a rifle IN the hands OF
the other, and shot By aim taken by retlec-
ton iG % ~ LOT.
Dit. 3, sbfue, boa rppniye1 ottpntiOD. Who
ever undertakes to manage aCy portion of the
coast, or any watering place, where surf bath
inn privileges are furnished, for pay, must
maintain surf or lif9-boats or some equally
serviceable means o. yescuing drOwLi per-
sons, for tho safety and succor of balhtfs in
danger. There must no t least one boat for
each three hundred yards Of beach which the
proprietor controls and each boat must be
manned by two men or more. NEGLECT Of any
landlord to obey this law exposes him t. fine
and Imprisonment, whether anyone has zen
drowned in consequence or not. mOrao er
there is to be an additional free floating bath
constructed for the City Of New-York.
The game laws have been extensively re-
modelled. IT wild game in this State is in
creasng as rapidly as game laws are, sports
men have reason to rejoice. A generation ago
there were scarce any laws for preserving
wild animals. The game law of 1879 fills ten
pages, and is very minute and precise in its
prohibitions. The months within which va
rious kinds of game may be caught or killed,
the places where and the ways how, are strin-
gently regulated. Some rules of general
character are made. Robbing wild birds
nests, except of crows, blackbirds, hawks and
owls, is to be punished. Any person who
trespasses on private grounds, In his cunning
or fishing excursions, after the owner of the
lands has given public notice that the grounds
are private and for preserving game or fish,
may be made to pay twenty-five dollars be-
sides all the damage he does. Manufacturing
establishments are forbidden to let refuse run
into adjoining streams, by which fish are
poisoned. And there is to be no shooting,
hunting, trapping or caging of birds or wild
beasts on Sunday. Angling on Sunday is not
forbidden.
Moreover there are other acts germane to
this topic. No one is to kill, or catch, or sell
any wild song birds (the law gives long list
of them) between the end of March and be-
ginning of November, except that a naturalist
may kill birds in pursuit of pathological
science. and frut-grower may kill them
when destroying his fruit Suitable streams
throughout the State are to be restOcked with
front. And, hereafter, no one is to take trout
except by angling, unless they are trout grown
in a private pond and the owner gives leave
to take them out in some other way.
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