The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-08-20
CHANGES in Our Game Laws.


terested in game preservation and prop
agation, we give below extracts from the
Ventress Bill, which is the new law all
hunters of feathered game must be gov
erned by in future:
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 tst to September list; geese,
brant, wild sea and river ducks, rails
(mud hens), coots (poule d'eau), GALL
mules, tattlers, curlews and plover, from
March list to October list; wild turkey
cocks, from April 18th to November list;
quail Dob White) and wood duck, from
March list to November list; snipe, pap
abotte, sandpipers and chorooks, from
May 18th to September list; blue winged
teal ducks, from April 18th to October
list.
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That it shall be unlawful for any non
resident or unnaturalized foreignborn
resident to hunt within the State, unless
he has in his possession, ready to ex-
hibit to any warden or officer, upon
request, hunting license. Such license
shall be issued by the tax collectors OF
the several parishes upon the payment
of fee of S25; shall be nontransferable,
and shall be good only in the parish OF
issuance during the open season in
which it is issued, and shall contain the
applicants signature and such other
means of identification as may be pre-
scribed by the aboard of commissioners
, for the. protection of birds, game anC
5 fish," Every nonresident or unnatural
t lied foreign born resident found hunt.
/ ing, without said license, may be arrest
ed on sight by any officer or warden, ant
f shall be liable to fine of not less thar
$50 nor more than s100, or Imprisonment
i in the parish Jail for not less than tel
e days nor more than thirty days, or boil
: fine and imprisonment.
n Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc.
2 That it shall be unlawful for any resi-
T.. dent to hunt within the State unless h.
has in his possession, ready to exhibit t
e any warden or officer, a hunting license
n Said license shall be issued by the ia
f collectors of the several parishes upo
d the payment of fee of 81; shall be non
+ transferable, and shall be good through
out the State during the open season i
h which it is issued, and shall contain tn
applicants signature and such othe
e means of identification as may be pre-
scribed by the "board of commissioner
! for the protection of birds, game an
S, fish,
e Every resident found hunting on othe
than land which he owns, without sal
J. license, may be arrested on sight by an
+. officer or warden and shall be liable to
s. fine of not less than S. nor more tina
$40, or imprisonment in the parish ia
al for not less than three days nor mo-
l. than five days, or both fine and impri
Va onment. Nothing in this act shall
$. construed to give the holder of hun
IS ing license permission to hunt on Il
land of any other person, without write
Id consent of said owner, provided tt
latter shall have posted conspicuous
of a warming or warnings against huntil
tie on said premises, and shall have Civ
a notice of such fact in three consecutl
issues of the newspaper published nea
to est to said property.