The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-04-16
The New Game Laws.

The services at the grave were con-
Quoted by Rev. ]. G. Edwards.
The New Game Laws.
For the benefit of sportsmen and 9th
ers interested in hunting and fishing, the
following carefully prepared synopsis of
the laws as they are now in force is given;
The state is divided into two districts,
the northern district consisting of the
counties of Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon,
Somerset, Morris, rassaic, Bergen, Hud-
son, Essex, Union. Middlesex and Mer-
Ger, and the southern district all the 9TH
or counties. This draws line across the
narrowest part of New Jersey in south
westerly direction from near Matawan to
Bordentown. The first section of the
new law forbids the killing of any game,
bird or animal. or any water fowl, ex-
cept by the legitimate means of shooting
with gun which can be fred from the
shoulder, under penalty of $50.
Deer can be killed only from October
25th to November 9TH, inclusive. Pen
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atty, 500.
In the northern district the open sea-
son for shooting hares, rabbits, quails'
woodcock, ruffed grouse, gray, black. or
fox squirrels. European pheasants or Eu-
ropean partridges, is from October 25th
to December 10th. inclusive. Penalty.
500. In the southern district, which in
cludes Monmouth county, the open sea-
SON for the same game is from November
10Th to January LIST, inclusive. English
or Wilson snipe may be killed only dur
ing the months of March and April and
between August Slst and December 18th,
inclusive. Penalty, $40. Grass or upland
tplover and doves. open season November
LIST to December 18th. Penalty, $40.
1t is unlawful at any time to kill, cap
ture or have in possession any night
hawk, whip-poor-will. thrush, meadow
lark. finch, martin, barn swallow. wood
pecker, robin, oriole, red or cardinal bird,
cedar bird, tanager or other insectivorous
bird, under penalty of $40 for every
bird so captured, killed, injured or had in
possession; provided, that nothing in
this section shall be so construed as to
prevent the taking or killing of English
sparrows, cranes, hawks, crows, ravens
crow-black birds, kingfshers or red-wing-
ed blackbirds.
Twenty dollars penalty is provided for
robbing birds nests or destroying eggs.
Reed birds and marsh hens are pro-
tected except between August 25th and
December 10Th. Rails are not provided
for in this section of the act.
The law provides penalty of $40 for
trapping or sharing game or for having
game In possession after it has been so
captured.
/ Web-footed fowl may be killed only be-
tween September Both and May LIST, inclu-
sive, and the usual restrictions are placed
upon the manner of hunting ducks, geese,
etc.
Section IL provides That it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to
capture, kill, iniure or destroy or pursue
with such intent any of the game birds
or other animals emu merated in this act
on his or her own property or on the
property of any other person or persons,
except during the season aud at such
times and IN such manner as provided in
this act any person or persons 80 doing
shall be liable to the penalties provided
for by said act in the violation thereof
Section Is provides that it shall be I'M
lawful to hunt with gun, or with dog.
or with any firearms or weapons, or to
carry gun In the fields or in the woods
on the Sabbath day commonly called
Sunday under penalty of 500 for each
and every offense.
The section eliminates and is supposed
to repeal the Sunday fishing clause which
was in the former law and which was
violated with IMMUNITY everywhere and
most unpopular with large portion OF
the citizens of the state.
The fish laws are almost unchanged.
The open season for black bass is May
SOth to December LIST, and for trout April
LIST to July 10Th. Bass under nine inches
and trout under six inches are still pro-
tected. There is new section which
prohibits the catching of pickerel between
February goth and May LIST, under q
penalty of $40 for each fish.
Another clause. which has teen hith-
erto indefinitely provided for, is the fol-
lowing:
s'And be it enacted, That it shall be un-
lawful to put, place. use or maintain in
any of the fresh waters of this State in
habited by pickerel. black bass, perch or
trout, any set line or set lines, or to put
or use in such waters any line or lines
not under the constant and immediate
supervision of the person 30 placing or
using such line or lines, under penalty
of twenty i've dollars for each ofense."
This section settles the mooted question
whether man may put out dozen or a
hundred poles upon wharf or float. and
let them fish for themselves, while he
sleeps or attends to other affairs. Another
section states definitely that fishing
through the ice for perch or pickerel may
be done only with one hook upon line.
Another law passed prohibits fishing with
fyke-nets or similar nets above Trenton
falls in the Delaware. under penalty Of
500 fine or six months imprisonment.
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