Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-09
New Regulations Governing District
Game and Fish,
QUAIL SEASON EXTENDED TOMARCH Is
Marsh Bird Shooting Legal Every
Day After September |.
A Salts FACTORY LAW

The act to amend former acts providing
for the protection of birds game and fish
in the District of Columbia, which was
adopted by both houses Of Congress after
protracted conference and approved by the
President March g. makes radical changes
in existing laws, and will prove satisfac-
tory not only to sportsmen, but to dealers
as well. The obnoxious provision combining
the killing of reed birds to three days in
the week is repealed and the season for
marsh bird shooting is advanced from Au-
gust 20 to September 1. The season in
which quail may be legally killed and sold
is extended from February to March 10,
and the killing of woodcock is made per-
missible between July 1 and January L.
The duck, goose, brant, snipe and plover
season is from September 1 to April I.
The season for bass and crappie is
closed from April 1 to May %.
Quail and woodcock.
The provisions of the new law are in full
as follows:
BE it enacted that sections 1 and of
an act entitled AN act for the protection
Of birds, preservation of game, and for the
prevention Of it's sale during certain closed
seasons, in the District of Columbia" ap-
proved March 3, 1889, be, and they are
hereby, amended to read as follows:
sale, have in his or her possession,
either dead or alive. any partridge. other
wise quail, between the fifteenth day of
March and the first day of November, I'M
der penalty of SIS for each partridge, 9TH
erwise quail, killed, exposed for SALE or
had in his or her possession, either dead or
| alive, and in default thereof to be impris-
oned in the workhouse for period not less
than thirty days nor more than six months.
THAT no person shall kill, expose for
sale, or have in his or her possession,
| 1;t l1a oil h0%xr
the first day of January and the first day
of July, under penalty of IS for each
woodcock killed, exposed for sale, or had
in his her possession, either dead
alive, and in default thereof to be impris-
oned in the workhouse for a period not
| less than thirty days nor more than six
months.
THAT no person shall expose for sale or
| have in his or her possession, either dead
| or alive, any prairie chicken, otherwise
| pinnated grouse, between the fifteenth day
| under a penalty of So for each prairie
chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, ex-
posed for sale. or had in his or her posses
| SION either dead or alive and in default
thereof to be imprisoned in the workhouse
| for a period not less than thirty days nor
more than six months.
THAT no person shall kill, expose for
| sale, or have in his or her possession,
| either dead or alive, any wild turkey
| ruffed grouse, otherwise known pleas
ant, between the twenty-sixth day Of De-
cember and the first day of November, eX-
| cept the English, ring-neck, or other
| pheasants Of foreign origin Matched and
raised In farm poultry Enclosures, under
penalty of IS for each wild turkey or
ruffed grouse, otherwise known as pleas
| ant, killed, exposed for sale, had in his
or her possession, either dead or alive, and
in default thereof to be imprisoned in the
workhouse for period not less than thirty
days nor more than six months.
THAT no person shall kill, expose for sale,
or have in his or her possession. either dead
| l~y~l&
species known as the English rabbit, Bel
gian hare, between the first day of Feb
ruary and the first day of November, I'M
der penalty of 50 for each squirrel or ra5-
bit killed, exposed for SALE or had in his or
her possession, either dead or alive, and in
default thereof to be imprisoned in the
workhouse for period not less than fif-
teen days nor more than three months.
Snipe and Marsh Birds.
THAT no person shall KILL expose for
SALE or have in his or her possession, either
dead or alive, any wild duck wild goose,
brant, snipe, or 'plover, between the first
day of April and the first day of SepIem-
Der, under penalty of So for each wild
duck, wild goose brant, snipe or plover
killed, exposed for sale, or had in his or her
possession, either dead alive and in de-
fault thereof to be imprisoned in the work
house for period not less than thirty days
nor more than six months.
That no person shall kill, expose for sale,
or have in his or her possession, either dead
or alive, any water rail or ortolan, reed
bird or rice bird, marsh blackbird or other
game bird not previously mentioned, be-
tween the first day of February and the
first day of September, under penalty of
81 for each water rail or ortolan, reed bird
or rice bird, marsh blackbird, or other game
bird not previously mentioned, killed, eX-
posed for sale, or had in his or her possess
sion, either dead or alive and in default
thereof to be imprisoned in the workhouse
for period not less than fifteen days nor
more than six months.
Section 3. That for the purposes of this
act the following only shall be considered
game birds: The anatidae, commonly known
as swans, geese, brant, river and sea ducks;
the rallidae, commonly known as rails
coots, mud hens and gallinules; the nmi-
colae. commonly known as shore birds,
plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock sand
plpers, tattlerS and curlewS; the gailinae,
commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse,
prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and
quails, and the species of icteridae, COM
monty known as marsh blackbirds and reed
birds or rice birds.
English SparrOws Left Out
THAT no person shall kill, catch, expose
for sale or have in his or her possession
living or dead, any wild bird other than a
game bird. English sparrow, crow Cooper's
hawk, sharshnned hawk or great horned
owl; nor to rob the nest of any such wild
bird Of eggs or young; nor destroy such
nest except in the clearing of land of trees
or brush, under penalty of SIS fors every
such bird killed, caught, exposed for sale
or had in his or her possession, either dead
or alive, and for each nest destroyed, and |
In default thereof to be imprisoned in the |
Workhouse for period not exceeding thir-