Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-08-12


An Act to amend sections $3.50. 6s6I, a,
amended May 4, 1885, Lsection $685.
and section 096S as amended May
1885.
SECTION 1. Be Il enacted bv The Gen
eral assembly ofthe State Of Ohio, Thai
sections $3.50, 6905 of the Revised Stat
utes Of the State of Ohio, and section
6908 as amended May A, 1885, be amend.
ed 30 as to read as follows:
SEC. $3.50. Whoever shall, at any
time, catch, kill or injure, or pursue
with such intent, any swan, sparrow
other than English sparrow, robin, blue
bird, martin, thrush. m0cking-bird,
swallow, ofiole, red-bird, grossbeak,
cat-bird, chewink or ground-robin,
pewee or phoebe-bird, wren, cuckoo,
indigo-bird, nuthatch, creeper, vel
low-bird or fringillo, yellow-hammer er
or flicker, warbler or finch, mhrvis, red
start, dummuck, nightingale, cross-bill,
croke, Hungarian Robin, great-tit OF
blue-tit, or disturb or destroy the eggs
ofany such bird, shall be guilty Of q
misdemean0r, and on conviction shall
be punished as hereinafter provided in
section 696S.
SEC. 6961. No person shall, in anv
place, catch, kill or injure, or pursue
with such intent, any quail or prairie
chichen, except between the tenth day
Of November and the first day of Janu-
ary OF each year, inclusive; or any wild
turkey between the fifteenth day of
January and the last day of October,
inclusive; or any ruffed grouse or pheas-
ant, or blue-winged teal between the
first day Of January and the last day of
August, inclusive;or any mallard, wood
duck, or any other wild duck, between
the tenth day Of April and the last day
of August, inclusive; or any wood-cock
between the first day ofJanuary and
the third day of July, inclusive; or any
turtle-dove between the first day Of
January and the first day of August; or
any squirrel between the first day of
January and the first day of June; or
any rabbit between the first day of
February and the first day Of October;
or catch, or trap, or snare, at any time,
any quail or Virginia partridge, or up
on any bog, river, estuary, marsh, mud
fiat, or in any cover to which wild fowl
resort, by aid ofany swivel or punt gun,
or any other gun than common shoul-
der gun, or with or by the aid Of any
artificial light, or with the aid or from
any sink, boat or battery, or with any
trail or net, kill or wound, or catch,
or pursue with such intent, any
wild goose or brant, or wild duck, or
any other water fowl, or disturb or de-
stroy the eggs or nests of any such
birds, or who shall use or attempt to
use, or have in possession for any ferret
forkilling rcatchinga any rabbit or driv-
ing them from their burrows or hiding
places.
No person shall, In any place, catch,
kill, injure, or pursue with such intent,
any blue-winged teal, mallard, wood
duck. or any other duck, on Sunday,
Monday or Tuesday of any week be-
tween the first day Of April and the first
day of September of any year. Any
person violating any provision of this
section shall be guilty Of a misdemean-
or, and on conviction, punished as here
matter provided in section 696s.
SEC. 1866. Whoev,sf kills, mains, or |
discharges any fire arms at any wild |
pigeon while on its nesting ground or
at its roosting place, or breaks up, or in |
any way disturbs any pigeon-roost or
nesting, or the birds therein, or dis
charges any fire arms at any wild pig
con within one-half mile of any pigeon
roostfng or nesting place, or disturbs or
destroys any pigeon eggs or nestlings.
or from, or By the aid of any sneak boat,
battery, or sink boat, approaches by
rowing, padding, sailing, floating or
sneaking, and fires upon any wild /
ducks or other water fowls sitting upon
or as they rise from the open water of
any bay or estuary, excepting only such
water fowl as have been previously Il
wounded, shall be guilty Of misde-
and on conviction, be punished Il
as hereinafter provided in section 6968. L
SEC. 1868. Whoever, in any body of
water, whether natural or artificial, liv-
ing in the State of Ohio, or part there
in, except In Licking county reservoir. Ii
from the first day of October until the |.
first day Of April, in Lake Erie, San
dusky and Maumee bays, and Mercer
county reservoirs, catches In any way
other than by hook and line and fish,
except minnows, shall be guilty of q /,
and shall, on conviction, Ii
be punished as hereinafter provided.
Whoever draws, sets, places, or locates /:
any pound net, seine, gill net, trap, or
any fish net or other device for catch X
ing fish, except minnows, aforesaid, in
any of the waters of Lake Erie west of
Avon Point, from the twenty-fifth of
May to the fifteen day Of September of
each year, or in the waters of Lake Erie
east of Avon Point, from the tenth of
June to the first day of October, shall !
be guilty of q misdemeanor, and shall,
On conviction, be punished as hereinaf-
Ter provided, and such seines, nets,
Weirs, and other devices shall be con-
iscated and destroyed wherever found.
shall, at any time Of the year,
IN Lake Erie, in the vicinity of the Is
ands thereof and in the bays tributary
hereto, upon the shoals and reefs there
n, by means Of any device whatever,
except with hook and line and whoever
n any body of water, whether natural
)r artificial, lying in the State, or parts
therein, shall shoot or spear or with the ,
ievice known.as tammel or pocket fyke,
,r gill net, fish or catch any fish, shall !
)e guilty of a misdemeahor and ON CON !,
fiction, be punished as provided herein
Ifter. Whoever buys, sells, or Of
ers for sale any fish caught out of sea-
on, or in any manner prohibited, or
whoever, at any time Of the year, in Z
my waters of the State of Ohio, kills
my fish by the use of dynamite, or any I
'ther explosive mixture, or by the use
my poisonous drug, bait, or food, shall
,e guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall,
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