Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-08-14
The LOUISIANA GAME Law.

August, and hunters from all over the
parish have been making inquiries as to
the exact conditions required by recent
legislation passed in the General Assem-
bly, at Baton Rouge.
The bill which Mr. Ventress had passed
at the instance of the Audubon Society
limits the killing of birds in this State to
twenty-five OF any one kind i'll day and
was made for the purpose of compelling
the men who formerly employed hunters
to shoot birds which were shipped out of
the State to stop their nefarious practice.
Most of the sportsnen are satisfied with
twenty-five birds day, and it is not to
hurt them that the limitation was put on
the killing.
Many new regulations not incorpOrat-
ed in the game laws are in the act, which
is as follows:
House Bill No. SO, by Mr.. Ventress.
An act for the protection OF game birds,
their nests and eggs, etc.
Section BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana,
that all wild game birds, both resident
and migratory, found i'll this State are
hereby declared to be the property of the
State. And no person shall at any time
or in any manner acquire any property
| in or subject to his dominion or control
any of the game birds or any part there
of of the species herein mentioned, but
they shall always and under all circum-
stances be and remain the property Of
the State; except that by killing the same
during the periods when their killing Is
| permitted the same may be used by any
| person at the time, in the manner and
for the purpose expressly authorized.
+ And whenever any person kills, catches,
takes, ships or has in possessions or I'M
der control any of the birds or any part
thereof, mentioned in this act, at any
time or in any manner prohibited by this
act, such person shall thereby forfeit and
lose all his right to the use and possession
of such bird or any part thereof, and the
State shall be entitled to the sole posses
sion thereof.
| Section BE it further enacted, etc.
That the purpose of this act, etc, the
following shall be considered game birds
| geese, brant, wild sea and river ducks,
wood ducks, rails (mud hens), coots
| (poul d'eau), gallinules, tattles, curlew,
plover, snipe, woodcock, sandpipera
(chorooks and papabote), wild turkey,
imported pheasants, grouse, prairie
chickens, quail and doves.
Section 3-Be it further enacted, etc.
That it shall be unlawful for any person
to kill, snare or in any way take, cap
ture, annoy or destroy any of the follow
ing named game birds during the closed
season noted herein: Doves, from March
to Sept. l; geese, brant, wild sea and
river ducks, rails (Inud hens), coot:
(poule deau), gallinules, tattlers, curlew
and plover, from March l to October l
Wild turkey cocks from April 10 to Nov.
l; quail Dob White), wood duck, from
March l to Nov. /; snipe sandpipers
(chorooks and papabottle), from May
10 to Sept. /; blue winged teal ducks
from April 10 to Oct. l.
Section BE it further enacted, etc.
That woodcock and prairie chicken:
shall not be killed nor had in possession
at any time until Dec. l, 1910, and there
after from Feb. to Dec. of any year
Section 5-Be it further enacted, etc.
That it shall be unlawful for any person
to kill or destroy more than twenty-five
of the birds mentioned in section O
this act in any one day during the oper
seasons named herein; nor shall any
hunting be done between the hours o
; sunset and sunrise.
Section 6-Be it further enacted, etc.
That it shall be unlawful for any person
to kill or capture, or attempt to capture
any Of the birds mentioned in this act
or to take, destroy, or attempt to tax,
or destroy the nest or eggs of any OF the
birds mentioned in this act. E.
Section BE it further enacted, etc.
That it shall be unlawful to kill any o
the birds named in this act in the oper
season, noted herein by any means othel
than by an ordinary gun capable of be
ing held to and shot from the shoulder
The other sections of this act cover tn,
shipment of game birds to and from the
State, with the exception of sections l:
!, and Is, which covers the shooting o.
birds by nonresidents and the license re
, quired by resident during the open sea
son.
Section II says: Be it further enacted
etc, That it shall be unlawful for any
nonresident or unnaturalized foreign
horn resident to hunt within the State
unless he has in his possession, ready t.
exhibit to any warden or officer, upor
request, hunting license. Such hcens,
shall he issued by the tax collectors o
the several parishes upon the payment
of a fee of twenty-five (S25. O0D dollars)
shall be nontransferable, and shall b,
good only in the parish of issuance dur
ing the open season in which it is issued
and shall contain the applicants sigma
| ture, and such other means of identified
ton as may be prescribed by the BoarC