The record-union., 1893-01-19
GAME PROTECTION.
Some Of the Proposed Changes in the
Present Laws.
Many That Are in the Right Direction
and Other Clauses That Need
Careful Consideration.

There are several bills before the Legis-
lature proposing changes in the game
laws, and some of them contain excellent
provisions. Assembly Bill No. 40, in
troduced by Mr.. LaRue, amending Sec
ton 626 of the Penal Code, calls for some
changes in the present law that cannot
fail to meet the approval of people in the
northern half OF the State. 1t is as fol-
| lows:
Every person who. between the 10Th
| day of March and the 10Th day of Septem-
Der of each year, hunts, pursues, takes,
kills or destroys any quail, or any kind
of wild duck or rail, is guilty OF mis-
demeanor. This makes the open season
| begin two weeks earlier than the present
law, and continues it two weeks later.
Every person who sells, or oilers for
| sale, any wild duck or rail previous to
the LIST day of October and later than the
| lst day of March of each year, is guilty of
misdemeanor. THE effect of this clause
would be to hold the market shooters
| back until October, and to restrict their
| slaughter of birds IN the latter part OF the
season..
Every person who sells, or offers for
sale any quail previous to the first day
of November, and later than the first
| day of March OF each year, is guilty OF a
misdemeanor. This affects the quail
market-shooters and prevents operations
by them before the LIST of Novem Der.
Every person who, between the first
day of January and the fifteenth day OF
August of each year, hunts, pursues,
takes, kills, or destroys any partridge or
grouse, is guilty OF misdemeanor.
! Permits grouse shooting by the middle
of August, thus enabling mountain cam
pers to take grouse. 1t protects the birds
during the winter when the snow is
deep.
Every person who, between the first
day of January and the first day of July
of each year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills,
or destroys doves, is guilty of a misde-
meanor. Makes the commencement OF
later, which is good thing as the birds
are not grown by June LIST.
Every person who sells, or offers for
sale, any doves, patridges, or grouse, pre-
vious to the first day of November, and
later than the first day of January of
each year, is guilty of misdemeanor.
Prohibits understanding until Novem-
Der 1st.
Every person who hunts, pursues,
takes, kills or destroys any bob-white
quail, Chinese, Monaghan, Japanese or
| English pheasants, for the period of three
| years after the passage of this Act, is
! guilty of misdemeanor. A wise pro-
vision.
Every person who takes, gathers or de-
stroys the eggs of any quail, partridge,
grouse, dove, Chinese, Monaghan,
! Japanese or English pheasant, mallard
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.
Collectors for scientific institutions
may, in the State of California, take, kill
OF trap such specimens of protected game
| birds as are needed by the institution for
! which they are collected; but they must,
when collecting, carry upon their person
some written evidence of their commits
sion with such institution, and must
show their authorization to collect for it,
when such evidence is required; but
nothing in this clause shall give any per-
son a right to kill, take or trap Chinese.
| Monaghan, japanese or English pheas-
ants, or any other introduced or i'm
ported game.
Every person who between the 1st day
of January and the lst day of July of each
| year shall kill or destroy any male deer
is guilty of misdemeanor. This makes
the open season for deer the same as be-
fore the passage of the two-years prohib-
itory law.
Every person who between the 1st day
of July and the lsU day of January OF
each year kills or destroys any male deer,
| uD1tSS bli6 CdICdSS VI SUCH dulIIldl Is uSeQ
or preserved for food by the parties slay-
ing it, is guilty of a misdemeanor THE
object of this is to prevent the killing of
deer for their hides.
Every person who shall at any time
hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy any
spotted fawn, female deer or doe, ante
lope, elk or mountain sheep, is guilty OF
miSdemeanor.
Every person who at any time takes.
drives or hunts, with dog or dogs, any
| deer, is guilty OF misdemeanor. This
! should apply only to packs of hounds
Every person who, at any time, shall
buy, sell, or offer, or expose for sale, ship,
or take out of the State, the carcass, hide.
skin, antlerS, or horns of any deer. elk
antelope, or mountain sheep, is guilty of
a misdemeanor The object of this
clause is palpable-to prohibit entirely all
| traffic in the hides of the animals named. I
| Every person who shall at any time de-
stroy by poison any of the animals or
birds mentioned in this section is guilty
| of misdemeanor.
| Any person found guilty of violating
any of the provisions OF this Act, shall.
! upon conviction, be fined in a sum not
! less than $50, nor more than $500 or by
| imprisonment in the County Jail in the
county in which such conviction was had.
not less than fifty days, nor more than
800 days, or by both such fine and inn
/ prisonment.
One-haf of all moneys collected for
/ fines for violation ofthe provisions of this
| section shall be paid to the informer. one
quarter to the District Attorney of the
county in which the conviction is had.
and one-quarter shall be paid to the Fish
! Commission fund for the purchase and
! distribution of game birds in the various
counties of the State of California.
TO PREVENT TRAPPING.
! Assemblyman LaRue has also intro
duced a bill l2D amending Section 63I OF
the Penal Code, relating to the trapping
of quail, pheasants, etc. 1t provides as
follows:
Every person who shall at any time
net, pound, weir. cage, or trap any quail,
partridge. grouse, dove. Chinese, Mongo-
liam, Japanese, or English pheasants. or
wild duck of any kind, and every person