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VI.— GAME LAWS OE THE DISTRICT. 



[Public— No. 99.] 



AN ACT for the preservation of game and protection of birds in the District of 



Columbia. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall kill or 

 expose for sale, or have in either his or her possession, either dead or 

 alive, any partridge, otherwise quail, between the first day of February 

 aud the first day of November, under a penalty of five dollars for each 

 bird so killed or in possession. 



Sec. 2. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 

 her possession, either dead or alive, any pheasant, otherwise ruffed 

 grouse, between the first day of February and the first day of August, 

 under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. 



Sec. 3. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have In his 

 or her possession, either dead or alive, any woodcock, between the first 

 day of February and the first day of July, under a penalty of five dol- 

 lars for each bird so killed or in possession. 



Sec. 4. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 

 her possession, either dead or alive, any prairie chicken, otherwise pin- 

 nated grouse, between the first day of February and the first day of 

 September, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in 

 possession. 



Sec. 5. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 

 her possession, either dead or alive, any snipe, or plover, between the 

 first day of May and the first day of September, under a penalty of five 

 dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. 



Sec. G. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 

 her possession, either dead or alive, any wild duck, wild goose, or wild 

 brant, between the first day of April and the first day of September, 

 under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so killed or in possession. 



Sec. 7. That no person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or 

 her possession, either dead or alive, any water-rail, or ortolan, or reed- 

 bird, or rice-bird, between the first day of February and the first day of 

 September, under a penalty of two dollars for each bird so killed or in 

 possession. 



Sec. 8. That no person shall expose for sale or have in his or her pos- 

 session, any deer-meat, or venison, between the first day of January and 

 the fifteenth day of August, under a penalty of twenty cents for each 

 and every pound of deer-meat so exposed for sale or had in possession. 



