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This section shall not apply to any person who shall kill or trap any bird for 

 the purpose of studying its habits or history, or having the same stuffed and 

 set up as a specimen ; nor to any person who shall kill on his own premises 

 any robin during the period when summer fruits or grapes are ripening, pro- 

 vided such robin is killed in the act of destroying such fruits or grapes. 



PINNATED GROUSE. 



SEC. 7. No person shall, at any time within ten years from the passage of 

 this act, kill any pinnated grouse, commonly called the prairie-fowl, unless 

 upon grounds owned by them, and grouse placed thereon by said owners, un- 

 der a penalty of ten dollars for each bird so killed. 



WOODCOCK, RUFFED GROUSE, QUAIL, RAIL, AND PARTRIDGE. 



SEC. 8. No person shall kill, or have in his or her possession, except alive, 

 for the purpose of preserving the same alive through the winter, or expose for 

 sale any woodcock or ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the 

 1st day of January and the 1st day of September, or kill any quail, sometimes 

 called Virginia partridge, between the 1st day of January and the 20th day 

 of October, or have the same in possession, or expose the same for sale be- 

 tween the 1st day of February and the 20th day of October, or have in his 

 possession any pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie-chicken, or expose 

 the same for sale between the 1st day of February and the 1st day of July, 

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

 exposed for sale. Provided, however, that in the counties lying along the 

 Hudson River, and Susquehanna River and its branches, and in the counties 

 lying south of the north line of the county of Greene, and the county of Co- 

 lumbia, and in the counties bordering upon the waters where the tide ebbs 

 and flows, it shall be lawful to kill, or possess, or expose for sale any wood- 

 cock, or rail, or ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the 3d day 

 of July and the 1st day of January. 



TRAPPING PROHIBITED. 



SEC. 9. No person shall, at any time, or in any place within this state, with 

 any trap or snare, take any quail or ruffed grouse, under a penalty of five dol- 

 lars for each quail or grouse so trapped or snared. 



VIOLATING THE SABBATH. 



SEC. 10. There shall be no shooting, hunting, or trapping on the first day 

 of the week, called Sunday, and any person offending against the provisions 

 of this section shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twen- 

 ty-five dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail of the county where the 

 offense was committed not less than ten days nor more than twenty-five days 

 for each offense. 



TRESPASS. 



SEC. 11. Any person who shall at any time enter upon the lawn, garden, 

 orchard, or pleasure-grounds immediately surrounding a dwelling-house, with 



