The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-11-25
FISH AND GAME Law.

The following is the full text of the law
passed by the last Legislature, to prevent
the destruction of fish and game:
Section |. Every person, who shall with
in the State of Oregon, between the first day
of November in each year and the first day
of July of the following year, hunt. pursue.
take. kill or destroy any male deer or buck,
shall be guilty Of misdeneanor. Every
person who shall for the period of four years
from and after the passage Of this act pur-
sue, hunt, take, kill or destroy any female
deer or doe, shall be guilty Of misdemeanor.
Every person who after the passage of this
act shall kill any spotted fawn shall be
guilty of misdemeanor. Every person who
after the passage of this act shall take, kill
or destroy any male or female deer or buck
at any time, unless the carcass of such ami
NAL is used or preserved by the person slay
ing it, or is sold for food is guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Sec. 2. Every person who buys, sells or
has in his possession, any of the deer emu
merated in the preceding section within the
time the taking or killing thereof is prohib-
tied, except such as are tanned or kept for
show or curiosity, is guilty of misde-
meanor.
Sec 8. Every person who shall within
the State of Oregon, between the first day of
January aud the first day of August of each
year, hunt, pursue, take, Kill or destroy any
elk, moose or mountain sheep, shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor. Every person who
takes, kills, injuries 9orsdestreys, or pur.
sues with intent to take, kill, injure or de-
stroy any elk, moose or mountain sheep, at
any time for the sole purpose of obtaining
the skin, hide or hams of any such animal
shall be guilty of a nisdemeanor. i
Sec. 4. Every person who shall within
the State of Oregon, between the first day
of April and the first day of September of
each year, take, kill, injure or destroy, or
have in possession, sell or offer for sale any
wild swan, mallard duck, wood duck,
widgeon, teal, spoon bill, black or sprigtail
duck, shall be guilty of misdemeanor;
provided, that any person may at any time
kill ducks to protect his growing crops.
Sec. 5. Every person who shall, within
the State of Oregon, between the first day of
April and the 18th day of June of each year,
for any purpose, take, Kali, injure or destroy,
or have in possession. sell or offer for sale
any prairie chicken or sage hen, shall be
ouiltv of a ,niedan,aaoor
Sec. 6. Every person who shall, within
the State OF Oregon, between the first day of
January and the 18th day OF July of each
year, take, kill, injure or destroy, or have in
possession. sell or offer for sale, any grouse,
pheasant, quail or partridge, shall be guilty
of miseemeanor.
Sec. Z. Every person who shall, within
the State of Oregon. during the months of
November, December, January, February
| and March,sof any year, catch, kill or have
liz possession, sell or offer for sale, any
mountain or brook trout, shall be guilty of
misdemeanor. Every person who shall,
within the State of Oregon, take or attempt
to take, or catch, with any seine, net or weir
| or other device other than hook and line,
any mountain or brook trout, at any time
after the passage of this act, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor.
Sec. 8. Every person who shall, within
the State of Oregon, at any time after the
passage of this act, trap, net or ensnare, or
attempt to trap, net or ensnare, any quail or
bob white, prairie chicken, grouse or pleas.
ant, or have in possession any live quail or
bob white. prairie chicken, grouse or pheas-
ant, shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
Sec. 8. Every person who shall, within
tho State of Oregon, at any time after the
passage of this act, destroy or remove from
the nest of any mal!ard duck. widgeon,
wood duck, teal, spoon bill, gray, black or
sprigtail duck, prairie chicken or sage hen,
grouse, pheasant. quail or partridge, or other
wild fowls egg or eggs of such fowls or birds,
or have in possession. sell or offer for sale
any such egg or eggs, or willfully destroy
the nest of any such fowl or birds, shall be
guilty of mlsdemeanor.
Sec. 10. Every person who shall have any
male deer or buck, or spotted fawn, elk,
moose or mountain sheep, swan, mallard
duck, wood duck, widgeon, teal, spoonbill,
gray, black or sprigtail duck, prairie chicken
or sage hen, grouse, pheasant. quail, Ebob
White or partridge, mountain or brook trout,
at any time when it is unlawful to take or
kill the same, as provided in this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and proof of the
possession of any of the aforesaid animals.
fowls. birds or fish, at any time when it is
unlawful to take or kill the same, in the
county where the same is found, shall be
prima facie evidence in any prosecution for a
violation of any of the provisions of this act,
that the person or persons in whose posses
| sion the same is found, took, killed or de.
stroyed the same in the county wherein the
game is found during the period when it was
unlawful to take, kill or destroy the same.
Sec. II. Every person convicted of a vio
Elation Of any of the provisions of this aci
shall be punished by q fine of not less thar
| ten dollars ncr more than three hundred dol
lars, or imprisonment in the county Jail o
te county where the offense was committed
for not less than FIVE days nor more thar
three months, or both such imprisonment
and fine. One-half of al moneys collected
for fines for violation of the provisions o
this act shall be paid to informers and one
half to the district attorney in the county il
which the case is prosecuted.
Sec. II. All acts and parts Of acts il
| conflict hera,rith are herahu rana.lal