The San Francisco call., 1897-03-04
TO PROTECT GAME.
Both Houses Pass the Measure Making
Sweeping Changes in Existing
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SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 3-After
being shunted back and forth between the
Senate and Assembly for more than
month, and amended thrice In the former
body and twice in the latter, the new
game bill was finally passed by the Sen
ate to-day and is now ready to be placed
in the hands OF the Governor for his ac-
ton. 1t makes sweeping changes in the
existing laws by repeating sections 626a,
626b, 626c, 626 /, $685. 626f, 626g, 626h, 626i,
627a, 627b 627c, 627d, and amending Sec
tions 626 and 627 OF the Penal Code.
Section 626 under the new bill will read
as follows:
Every person who, between the first day of
March and the first day OF October in each
year, shall hunt, pursue, take kill or destroy,
or have in his possession any valley quail,
bob-whlte, partridge, or any kind OF Wild duck
or rail; every person who, between the if-
teenth day OF February and the first day of
September in each year. shall hunt. pursue.
take, Kill or destroy, or have in his possession,
any mountain quail or grouse; every person
who, between the fifteenth day of February
and the fifteenth day OF July in each year,
shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or DESTROY, or
nave In his possession, any dove or doves every
person who shall take, gather or destroy the
eggs or nest Of any quail, bobwhite, partridge,
pheasant, grouse, dove, robin, or any kind of
wild duck or rail; every person VINO, in the
state OF California, shall at any time hunt,
shoot, shoot at take, kill. or destroy, buy, SELL
give away, or have in his possession, except
TOR the purpose OF propagation, or for educa-
tional or scientific purposes, any English sky
lark, re bin, canary, humming bird, thrush or
mocking-brd or any part of the skin, skins,
or plumage thereof, or who shall rob the nests
or lake or destroy, or offer for sale, the eggs OF
any of the said birds; every person who be-
fore the first day OF March, eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, shall hunt, pursue, take
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any pheasant; every colds forage company
person Keeping cold-storage warehouse tav-
ern or hotel-keeper, restaurant or eating
house keeper, lnarketman or other person who
shall buy, sell, expose or offer for SALE or give
away, or have in his pos session any quail,
bob-white, partridge, robin, grouse, dove
pheasant, wild duck OF rail during the time 1t
shall be unlawful to kill such bir is; eyery
person who shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or
nave in his possession or des ROY any male
deer between the 18th day of October and the
18th day OF July OF The following year; every
person who shall at any time hunt.
pursue, take, kill or destroy or have in
his possession any female deer, or spotted
fawn, or any antelope, elk or mountain sheen:
every person who shall at any time buy. sell
offer for sale. the hide or meat of any deer
elk, antelope or mounta in sheep; every person
who shall buy, SELL offer, expose for SAFE
transport or carry, or have in his possession
the skin, hide or pelt of any deer from which
the evidence oil sex has been removed, is guilty
of misdemeanor; provided, however, that
the right OF possession for the purpose of pro.
pagation shall first be obtained by
permit IN WIlJlHp, from tne Board of
Fish Commissioners of the State of
California. Any person found guilty
of a violation of any of the provisions of this
section, shall he fined in sum not less than
$40 or more than $500, or be imprisoned In
the county Jail in the county in which the
conviction shall be had not less than ten days
or more than one hundred and fifty days, or
be punished by both such fine and i'm pris on
ment. II shall be no defense in prosecution
for violation of any of the provisions of this
section that the birds or animals were taken
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ever, that nothing in this section shall be held
to apply to the hide of any OF said animals