Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-08
PROTECTION OF GAME.
The Act for the Protection Of Game and
Fish in thu Territory.

The law setting a limit for the killing
of certain game, the restrictions as to
the killing of quail, and other matters
in reference to hunting and fishing,
reads as follows:
Section THAT after the passage of
this act it shall be unlawful to kill,
wound, snare or trap any quail, grouse,
prairie chicken, pheasant, partridge or
wild turkey, or to kill, wound or in any
way destroy any antelope, deer, elk or
mountain sheep, except that said birds
or animals, the animals being with
the months of September, October and
November of each year in the counties
of Rio Arriba, San Juan, Taos, Colfax,
Union, San Miguel, Guadalupe and San
ia Fe, and during the months of Octo-
Der, November and December in all the
other counties of the territory; and,
provided, that no person shall kill or
have in his possession more than one
antelope, elk, mountain sheep or deer
at any one time.
Sec. 2.-Whenever in any county OF
this territory a petition shall be signed
by fifty qualified voters thereof and pre-
| scented to the board Of county commits
sioners of such counties praying for the
prohibition of the killing, destroying or
sharing of any deer, antelope, turkey or
other wild game or game birds in said
county or any part thereof, When such
petitioners reside particularly described
in said petition, or for the prohibition Of
| the catching of fish by line or in any
other manner in said county, or in any
particular stream, pond, lake or reser-
voir or portion thereof particularly de-
! scribed in such petition, in the neigh
borhood where such petitioners reside,
it shall be the duty of such board Of
| county commissioners to publish notice
of the prohibition under this act against
| the killing, destroying or sharing OF
| such birds or game described in such
petition in said county or portion there
| Of, particularly described in such petit
ton, or the catching or killing of any
| fish in said county or in any particular
| stream, pond, lake or reservoir or por-
| ton thereof described in said petition,
which said notice in both Spanish and
English shall be published in four con-
| secutive publications in some weekly
in general circulation pub
lished in said county, and from the date
of the completion of such publication
and for a period of two years thereafter,
it shall be unlawful in said counties to
kill any game or game birds, mentioned
in said petition in said county or in any
part thereof described in said publica-
| ton, or to catch or kill any fish so de-
| scribed in said county or such stream,
pond, lake or reservoir thereof so par
| ticularly described in said petition and
publication.
Sec. 3.-Whenever the owner or lessee
of lands within any enclosure or pas
ture in this territory shall desire to pro-
tect or propagate any game birds or an
imals or any fish in IN stream in said
enclosure, he may publish notices of
such fact in both English and Spanish.
warning all persons not to hunt or fish
in such enclosure or pasture or water
described, which notice shall be by
handbills posted in at least three con-
| %spicuous places on said premises, and
by publication in some newspaper of
| general circulation in said county,
which notices so posted and published
shall be for the period of three weeks or
| three consecutive publications of the
paper in which the same may be pub
lished. After the publication Of such
notice, it shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons to trespass on said prem
Uses for the purpose Of hunting or fish
ing, land any violation Of the provisions
of this section shall be and constitute a
misdemeanor." And the presence of any
person on such premises with dogs or
guns, or line, or either, or other imple-
ments of hunting or fishing, shall be