348 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



PART III. — LEGISLATION OF GENERAL AGRICULTURAL 



INTEREST. 



SHOOTING OF PHEASANTS. 



Chapter 401. 



An Act relative to the killing of pheasants. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The board of commissioners on fisheries and game may 

 declare an open season on pheasants in any county of the commonwealth, 

 in which such open season seems advisable, and may make such rules and 

 regulations relating to bag limit, time and length of open season and varie- 

 ties to be taken and all other matters connected with such open season as 

 the said board may from time to time deem necessary or expedient. 



Section 2. A person may capture, pursue, wound or kill, upon land 

 o-RTied or occupied by him, a pheasant which he finds in the act of doing 

 damage to any crop on cultivated land ; and he may authorize a member 

 of his family or person permanently employed by him on such land to cap- 

 ture, pursue, wound or kill a pheasant under the circumstances above 

 specified. The person by whom or under whose direction a pheasant is 

 so captured, wounded or killed shall within twenty-four hours report the 

 facts in writing to the said board, stating the time, place and the number 

 of pheasants so captured, wounded or killed. 



Section 3. Whoever violates any provision of this act or any rule or 

 regulation made under authority hereof shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding fifty dollars for each bird or part thereof in respect to wliich the 

 violation occurs. 



Section 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 

 repealed. [Approved April 23, 1914- 



SUPPRESSION OF INSECT PESTS. 



Chapter 404. 



An Act to authorize cities and towns to suppress the tent cater- 

 pillar, LEOPARD MOTH AND ELM BEETLE. 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloios: 



Section 1. The city forester, superintendent or other person ha\ing 

 charge of the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths in each city and 

 town in the commonwealth, or, where there is no such person, the tree 

 warden, may destroy within the limits of his city or town the tent cater- 

 pillar, leopard moth and elm beetle, if authorized so to do by" the mayor 

 and city council or commission in cities, or by the selectmen in towns. 



Section 2. For the purposes of this act the city forester or other officer 

 designated in section one of this act may enter upon private land, and the 



