The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-09-28
THE GATE Avs OF LOUISIANA.
Legislative Acts Protecting Game
and Fish.
ACT NO. l26 OF 1904.

ACT NO. 126 OF 1904.
An act for the protection of gam,
animals, birds, and fowls of the Stat
of Louisiana, and fixing penalties fol
violations thereof.
Sec. l. Be it enacted by the genera
assembly of the State of Louisiana
That all wild deer, game birds ant
fowls, both resident and migratory,
found in this State, shall be and are
hereby declared to be, the property Of
the State.
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful
in this State to catch, kill or pursue
with such intent any wild deer, or any
of the following game birds: fowls,
swans, geese, brant, wild ducks,
rails. mud hens), coots (poule d'eau),
gall;nules, surf birds, snipe, sand
pipers, chorooks, papabots, ~tattlers,
curlews, plovers, grosbeck, wild
turkeys, quails, doves, prairie hens,
wOodcOck, and wood duck, or have
same in possession after they have
been killed or caught, except as here
matter provided.
Sec. 3. That there shall be a period
OF v months in each year in which
it shall be unlawful for any person to
kill, snare or trap, hunt with hounds,
or in any way annoy or destroy any
wild deer, and that the police iuries
OF the parishes are hereby empowered
to set the date on which the close
season shall begin and end, provided
that the close season so fixed by said
police juries shall not be for a less
period than the seven months before
mentioned. And provided further,
that north of the 3lst parallel Of
latitude the months of May, June,
July and up to August Is Of each
year shall in every instance be in
cluded in the close season.
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to kill at any time a
doe or q fawn.
Sec. D. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to kill, snare or trap,
or in n way destroy any of the
following named game birds and
fowls between the dates of the closed
season herein named: doves, rails.
(mud hens), coots tpoule d'eau), !
gallinules, surf birds, sand pipers.
.chorooks, tattlers, curlews, plover
and grosbec, from March l to August
l; snipe from May l to September L;
Wild ducks, swans, geese, and brant.
from April Is to September L; quail
from March l to November; l turkeys
from April l to December l.
Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to snare or trap n
Wild turkeys or to kill or to have in
their possession q wild turkey hen, at
any season Of the year. /
Sec. !. That it shall be unlawful
any person or persons to catch or
Kill, or have in possession any
hens or wood duck (branchu)
any time during the next five fol-
owing years after the passage of this
act and thereafter between March and
first.
Sec. 8. That it shall be unlawful
or any person to rob or destroy the
lest or eggs of any birds or fowls /,
famed in this act.
Sec. g That it shall be unlawful /,
0 Kill any of the animals, birds or /,
owls named in this act in the open {
JASON noted herein by any lei
ther than by an ordinary guu s
of being held 70 and shot 3
ON the shoulder. Il
Sec. 10. That it shall he unlawful $
any person to kill or destroy nor Q
twenty-five of the birds or fowls 9
entioned in section two OF this act in n
~ one day during the open eason :
lmed herein; snipe and Wild ducks 2
hich number shall be limited to {,
s(z5) nor more than six s
IA dear during the months nom q,
mhsr - nrss - February he :,