The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-10-01

We give below in full the Ventress
and the Welsh Bills, which were passed
and became laws during the recent ses-
sion of the General Assembly. The
first mentioned deals strictly with feath-
cred game and the new hunters license
aud the penalties for the violations of its
several sections. In it can also be found
the names of the different species of
birds of our State that are considered
game birds and the season during which
they are protedted. CTo learn the open
season, reverse the dates.) All those
who hunt or are interested at all in game
birds and their protection would do well
to clip these bills. They will not again
appear in print in the Banner.
The Ventress Bill is as follows:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana,
That all wild game birds, both resident
and migratory, found in this State, are
hereby declared to be property of the
State. And no person shall at any time
or in any manner acquire any properly in
or subject to or in his dominion or con-
troll, any game birds or any part thereof
of the species herein mentioned, but they
shall always and under all circumstances
be and remain the property of the State;
except that by killing the same during
the periods when their killing is per-
mitted the same may be used by any
person at the time, in the manner and
for the purpose expressly authoized.
And whenever any person catches,
kills, ships or has in possession or under
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 pos
session of such bird or any part thereof,
and the State shall be entitled to the
sole possession thereof.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That for 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 (poule d'eau), gallinules, snipe,
woodcock, sandpipers, chorooks, papa
botte, tattlers, curlews, ployer, wild
turkey, grouse, prairie chickens, i'm
+ ported pheasants, quail and doves.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That it shall be unlawful for any person
to kill, snare, trap or in any way take,
, capture, annoy or destroy any OF the
=. following named game birds during the
closed seasons noted herein: Doves
from March 1st to September 1st; geese
: brant, wild sea and river ducks, rails
< (mud hens), coots (poule d'eau), gall
/ mules, tattlers, curlews and plover, from
4 March 1st to October 1st; wild turkey
i cocks, from April 18th to November list
e quail Dob White) and wood duck, from
: March list to November list; snipe, pap
abotte, sandpipers and chorooks, iron
: May 18th to September list; blue-winget
teal ducks, from April 18th to Octobe
|. list.
+ Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, etc.
That woodcock and prairie chicken
shall not be killed nor had in possession
at any time until December /, 1910, AM
thereafter from February 1st to Deem
f Der list of any year.
c Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc.
v That it shall be unlawful for any perso
to kill or destroy more than twenty-fiv
of the birds mentioned in section tire
of this act in any one day during tn
;s open seasons named herein; nor sha
: any hunting be done between the hour
of sunset and sunrise.
r Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc
1T That it shall be unlawful for any perso
to capture or attempt to capture any {
J. the birds mentioned in this act, or
IT take, or attempt to take or destroy til
,e nest or eggs of any OF the birds mer
Is toned in this act.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc
- That it shall be unlawful to kill any
.. the birds mentioned in this act in til
!; open season noted herein by any oth'
; means than by an ordinary gun capab
!: of being held to and shot from tt
shoulder.
! Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc
That it shall be unlawful for any persc
! to sell, offer for sale, or have in posses
/: sion for sale any game bird protecte
!; under the provisions of this act after Il
: list day of March of any year and unit
!: the opening dates of the fall season,
!: we'll as during the closed seasons nott
/: herein.
/: Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc
; That it shall be unlawful for any perso
!: firm or corporation, their agents, Office
or employees, to sell, exchange expos
offer for sale, or exchange or have
possession either for himself or other
any of the game birds mentioned in tn
act during the closed seasons nam
herein, irrespective of the time when
place where such birds were killed
captured.
!: See. 10. Be it further enacted, ct