The record-union., 1891-08-10
OUR WILD GAME.
Full Text of the Law Intended to
Protect 1t.
The Law Officers and Police of the Sew
eral Counties are Expected to
Rigidly Enforce It.

1nasmuch as Attorney General Hart
has decided that the general State game
law passed by the last Legislature takes
precedence of any and all other Acts or
parts OF Acts relating to the subject; and
as the time is at hand when the game law
is more frequently violated than at any
other period of the year, the RECORD
UNION republishes the full text of the
Act for the information and guidance of
all SportSmen who wish to make no mis-
takes. As to those who have no respect
for the game laws, they will find that the
same cannot now be trampled upon with
the impunity that it has been in years
past.
The people and their officials are at last
| arriving at something like an apprecia-
ton Of the fact that the wild game of the
State is not the least of it's attractions,
and that it possesses a value in which
each and all have an interest.
The present law for it's protection is a
! stringent and iudicious one, and should
| be rigidly enforced.
! Last year there was no protection eX-
! tended to wild ducks, and the open sea-
son for quail and grouse shooting opened
on the 10th Of September, date mani
testify too early. The new law protects
all these species Of game between the lst
of March and the lst Of October, and
reads as follows:
! Every person who, in the State Of Cali
| fornla, between the lSt day of March
and lst day of October III each year,
hunts, pursUes, takes, kills, or destroys
any quail, partridge, or grouse, or any
KIND OF wild duck or rail, is guilty of a
| misdemeanor.
Every person who, in any OF the coun-
ties OF the State Of California, at any time
takes, gathers OF destroys the eggs of any
quail, partridge, or grouse. or mailard
duck or any kind of summer duck, red
| head, teal, or any gray duck. or any other
kind Of wild duck, is guilty Of misde-
meanOr.
Every person who, in the State of Cali
| fornia, between the 1st day OF January
and the lst day of July in each year,
| hunts, pursues, takes, Kills, or destroys
doves is guilty Of a misdemeanor.
| Every person who, in any of the coun-
! ties in the State OF California, hunts, pur-
! sues, takes, kills, or destroys any male
deer, antelope, mountain sheep, or buck,
for the period Of two years from the date
Of the passage of this Act, is guilty of q
misdemeauor.
Every person in the State Of California
! who has in his possession any green
hides or any green skins Ofany deer, elk,
! StLiIC4opS, VI AhOuiitttIl SiIeCp hlIleu aiUGf
the passage of this Act, and before the
expiration Of two years from the date of
| the passage Of this Act, is guilty of a mis-
! demeanor.
Every person in the State of Califor-
| MIA who, at any time, hunts, pursues,
kills, takes, or destroys any female deer,
antelope, elk, mountain sheep, or doe,
shall be guilty ofa misdemean0r
! Every person who shall at any time
hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy any
spotted tawn, is guilty Of a misdemeanOr.
Every person who shall take, kill, or
destroy any of the animals or birds
mentioned in this section at any time.
! unless the carcass OF such animal or bird
be used or preserved by the person talk
! ing or Staying it, or is sold for food, is
| guilty OF a niiSdemeanor.
Every person who shall buy, sell, offer.
or expose for sale, transport or carry, or
! have in his possession any deer or deer
/ skin, or any hide or pelt from which the
| evidence OF sex has been removed, or any
| OF the aforesaid game at time when it is
unlawful to kill the same, as provided by
this and subsequent sections, is guilty OF
d miSdemeanOr.
Every person who takes, catches. or
! Kills or exposes for sale, or has in his
possession, any speckled trout, brook or
salmon trout, or any variety Of trout, be-
| tween the lst day Of November and the
lst day of April in the following wear.
except salmon trout taken with rod and
line in tide water, is guilty Of misde-
meanor.
Fishing for salmon, shad, etc. be-
tween O'Clock Saturday evening and
SundoWn Of succeeding Sunday, pro-
! hibited.
Fishing by explosives, or by pound,
Weir, cage, trap, or set net, prohibited.