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_ APPENDIX D. 
LAWS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO HORTICULTURISTS. 
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FROM CHAPTER 57 OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF MINNESOTA 
‘ FOR 1877. 
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : 
Section 1. Chapter thirty-eight (38) of the General Laws of 
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874), entitled ‘‘An 
act for the preservation of game,’’ is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
Sec. 1. No person shall kill or pursue with intent to kill any 
woodcock, saving only during the month of July after the third 
(3d) day of said month, and during the months of August, Sep- 
tember and October; nor any prairie’ hen or chicken, nor any 
white-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse or prairie chicken, save 
only during the month of August after the fourteenth (14th) day 
of said month, and during the month of September; nor any quail 
or partridge, save only during the months of September, October 
and November, nor any ruffed grouse or pheasant, save only 
during the months of September, October and November; nor any 
aquatic fowl, save only between the first (1st) day of September 
and the fifteenth day of May succeeding, in any year. 
Sc. 6. No person shall break up or destroy, take away, or in 
any manner interfere with any nest, or the eggs therein, of any 
woodcock, snipe, quail, partridge, ruffed grouse or prairie chicken, 
pheasant, plover, or any species of wild duck, brant or wild goose, 
not domesticated; nor shall sell or expose for sale the said eggs, 
nor shall have the same in his possession for any purpose. And 
every railroad company and every express company, and all 
employees and agents of the same, shall be deemed persons within 
the meaning of this section; and any person or persons offending 
against any provision of this section, shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than five (5) nor more than fifty dollars ($50,) and by 
the forfeiture of all eggs in his or their possession, together with 
the costs of prosecution. 
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