Year: 1872

The following is a synopsis of the
game and fish laws of the State, which
it will be well for persons Interested to
preserve for reference


1t shall not be lawful for any pers on
to kill. hunt or take by any device,
means or contrivance whatever, sell or
expose for sale, have unlawfully in bis
possession, or worry or hunt with hound
or dogs, any deer or fawn between the
alst day of December. in any year, and
the lst day of September, in any year
Provided, that nothing in this section
shall apply tie tame deer or those kept in
parks.


Any person violating the foregoing
provision of this act shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall like
wise be liable to a penalty of fifty dol
lars.


PHEASANTS, PARTRlDGFS, IURktfS, NC.


No person shall kill or have unlaw-
fully in his possession or expose for
sale, any ruffed grouse or pheasant, be
tween the Goth Gay of December and the
1st day of August, or any quail or Vir-
ginia aprtridge between the 18th day of
December and the 1st day of October,
or any wild turkey, between the 1st day
of January and the 1st day of October,
or any fox squirrel or gray squirrel, or
rabbit, between the lst day of January
and the 1st day of August, under a pen
atty offve dollars for each and every
bird or squirrel SO killed unlawfully and
in possession, or exposed for sale.


woODCoCK.


No person shall kill, capture, take or
have in his or her possession, any wood
cock between the 18th day Of November
and the 4th of July, under a penalty of
five dollars for each and every bird SO
killed or had in his possession Or exposed
for sale.


INSECTIVEROUS BIRDS.


No person shall at any time, kill,
trap or expose for sale or have in his
possession after the same is killed, any
night hawk, whippoorwill. finch, thrush,
lark, sparrow, wren, martin, swallow,
woodpecker, dove, bobolink, robin, or
startling or any other iusectiverous bid,
nor destroy or rob the nest of any wild
birds whatever under penalty of five
dollars for each and every bird so killed,
trapped or exposed for sale, and for each
nest destroyed or robbed.


HUNTING ON SUNDAY.
There shall be no shooting of BIRDS
hunting or trapping on the first day Of
the week, called Sunday. and any per-
son offending against the provision of
this act, shall on conviction, forfeit and
pay sum not exceeding twenty-fv
nor less than five dollars. or be imprson-
ed in the county Jail where the offence
was committed, not less than ten days
nor more than twenty five days for each.
offence,


TRAPPING BIRDS.


No person shall at any time feed, bait
or build blinds for the purpose of killing
or to trap or snare any wild turkey.
rufed grouse or pheasant. quail or Vir-
ginia partridge or woodcock, under
penalty of five dollars for each and every
bird so taken, trapped or shared: Pro
videc, that nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent individuals or as
sociations for the protection, preservation
aud propagation of game from gathering
alive by net or traps. quails or Virginia
partridges, for the sole purpose of pre-
serving them alive over winter, from the
fifteenth day of November to the first
day of January, and for no other purpose
whatever.


BLACK BASS.


1t shall be unlawful for any persons
to take, catch or kill, by any means or
device whatsoever, any black bass in the
Deleware or Susquehanna rivers, or any
of their tributaries, until the first day of
August, A. ID. 1878. Procded, That
the accidental taking of black bass shall
not be construed as violation of this
act if the same shall be Immediately re
turned alive into the said rivers and
tributaries The fact of any person having
such black bass in their possession shall
be accepted as prima .facie evidence of
their having been taken from said rivers
or tributaries in violation of this act.
Any persons violating the above provis-
ions Of this act shall, npon conviction
thereof before any justice of the peace,
pay fine of five dollars for each and
every fish so taken or had in possession,
withou. being able to prove that they
were not taken from the said rivers or
streams, and in default of the payment
of such fine to undergo an imprisonment
in the county Jail for a term of ten days


The specie. commonly known as Sus-
quehanna salmon, pike, perch and jack
salmon, shall henceforth not be taken in
any of the streams meant to be included
in this act during their spawning time,
this is to say between the first day of
February and first day of June in any