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This prohibition, however, is not applicable to shooting in 

 marshes. Any one carrying a loaded gun between the hours 

 aforesaid, in going to or returning from his shooting-ground, 

 incurs the same penalty. 



The penalty for hunting or fowling in any manner at a 

 time when they are not permitted is a fine not exceeding 

 one hundred and fifty lire, or less than fifty lire, together 

 with the forfeiture of guns or other instruments. To the 

 same fine is liable whosoever during the time above men- 

 tioned lays snares for any kind of animals, or does not 

 remove such snares, etc., previously laid by him, or carries 

 a gun on a public road or in the open country,"or carries 

 any implements or engines used in fowling, or transports, 

 deals in, or keeps in his possession game of any kind. 



It is lawful, however, to hunt or take at such time 

 noxious beasts and birds, such as wolves, foxes, badgers, 

 polecats, martens, weasels, porcupines, hedgehogs, falcons, 

 owls, ravens, jackdaws, magpies, and crows ; provided that, 

 in so doing, neither guns, nor snares, nor traps are used ; 

 and sparrows may be caught by any means, but they may 

 not be shot with guns. 



Prefects may, during the season of general prohibition, 

 give permission for a determined number of days to com- 

 panies comprising 'not fewer than eight persons, to shoot 

 wolves and foxes with guns. In certain particular cases 

 they may grant such permission to less than eight indi- 

 viduals together, and they may at any time permit the use 

 of snares and traps even in fields, woods, and other open 

 places where it is necessary to employ such means of pro- 

 tection against the animals above mentioned, provided that 

 such traps, etc., be set an hour after sunset, and removed an 

 hour before sunrise, and that they be not set in roads, paths, 

 or tracks where men or animals pass. Such permission may 

 be made applicable to wild boars when their increase becomes 

 injurious to agriculture. 



From the close of the shooting season until the 16th of 



