The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-30
For the Protection Of Our Forest Friends.

We are trying to do all we can through the col
umns of the Banner toward the protection of the
wild animals and birds of our parish, whether of
the species classed as game or not. OF course the
publishing of all recent legislation the subject
will help greatly. By doing this our readers will
become more familiar with the laws, and once they
are generally known and understood they will be
more respected. In last weeks issue we printed
Act No. 1879, taken from the ssActs of the General
Assembly of 1906" which merely showed Sections
2 and of Act No. 1876 of 1904 as revised. Act No.
1926 of 1904, was introduced by Hon. Henry Hun
sicker, of Shreveport, who is known to number of
our readers. The entire Act with the two sections
as revised and inserted, would read as follows
AN ACT
For the protection of game animals birds and fowls
of the State of Louisiana, and fixing penalties for
violations thereof
Section /. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Louisiana, That all wild deer,
game birds and fowls, both resident and migratory
found in this State, shall be, and are hereby de-
clared to be, the property of the State.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful in this State to catch, kill or pursue
with such intent, any Of the following game birds
or fowls: Swans, geese, brant, sandhill cranes,
wild ducks, rails (mud hens), coots (poul deau),
gallinules, surf birds, snipe sandppers, charooks
pappabottes, taters, curlews, plover, grosbec,
wild turkeys, quails, doves, ortolons Cedar birds
robins, prairie hens, woodcocks and wood ducks or
have same in possession after they have been
caught or killed, except as hereinafter provided
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That there
shall be a period of seven 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
Juries of the parishes hereby empowered to set
the date which the closed season shall begin and
end, provided that the closed season so fixed by said
Police Juries shall not be for less period than the
seven months before mentioned; and, provided
further that north of the 31st parallel of latitude
the months of May, June, July and up to Aug. Is
of each year shall in every instance be included in
the closed season.
Sec. g. Be it further enacted, ETC., That it shall
be unlawful for any person to kill at any time a
doe or a fawn.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful for any person to KILL or trap or
in any way destroy any OF the following named
game birds and fowls between the dates of the close
season herein named: Doves, rails (mud hens),
coots (poul deau), gainules, surf birds, charooks,
sandpipers, tatlers, curlews, plover grosbeck and
robins, from March to Aug. l; snipe, papabottes
and ortolon Cedar birds) from May Is to Aug. /;
wild ducks, swans, geese, brant and sandh cranes,
from April to Sept. I; quail, from March to
Nov. L; turkeys, from April l to Dec. 1 wood
cock, from March to Nov. 1.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
4 hn unlawful for tn or troY, INV
wild turkey or to kill or have in their possession
wild turkey hen at any of the year.
Sec. Z Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful for any person or persons to catch OF
kill, or have in possession, any prairie hens OF
woodduck (branchu) at any time during the next
i've following years after the passage of this act
and thereafter between March and Sept.
Sec. g. Be it further enacted, ETC., That it shall
be unlawful for any person to rob or destroy the
nest eggs of any birds fowls named in this act
/ Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful to kill any of the animals, birds OF
fowls named in this act in the open season noted
herein by any means other than by an ordinary
gun capable of being held to and shot from the
shoulder.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful for any person to kill or destroy more
than twenty five of the birds fowls mentioned in
Section of this act in any one day during the
open season named herein; snipe and wild ducks
which number shall be limited to seventy five, mol
more than six wild deer during the months from
| Sept. to Feb. 1.
Sec II. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall
be unlawful for any person or persons to sell, ex
change, expose or offer for sale or exchange, o.
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birds fowls mentioned in Section of this act,
the period during which they are intended to b
protected by the provisions Of this act, and thi