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SALMON and TROUT, from Feb. 1st to Nov. 1st. 

 BASS and WALL-EYED PIKE, from June 1st to April 1st. 

 It is unlawful to catch fish by means of a net or seine. 

 There is no restriction upon the manner of taking fish in the 

 Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. 



Dakota. 



WILD GAME may be killed in Dakota only during the seasons 

 stated below. 



BUFFALO, ELK, DEER, ANTELOPE and MOUNTAIN 

 SHEEP, from Sept. 1st to Jan. 1st. 



PRAIRIE-CHICKENS and all other GROUSE from Aug. 15th 

 to Jan. 1st. 



It is unlawful to kill, trap or destroy quail in Dakota for five years 

 from and after Feb. 5, 1833. Union, Clay and Yankton counties are 

 exempted from the provisions and effects of this law. 



The game laws prohibit any person from killing, ensnaring or 

 trapping, in any form or manner, any Quail, Prairie-Chicken, 

 Grouse, Snipe, Plover or Curlew on any premises owned or occupied 

 by any other person, without the consent of such person; also pro- 

 hibit any person from killing, or ensnaring, or trapping, in any 

 form or manner, any of the above named birds, for sale, trade or 

 traffic, at any time. Except that any of the above named birds may 

 be sold to any person for his own use, to be consumed within the 

 territory between Aug. 15 and Dec. 31, in each year. 



FISH. It is unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill or destroy 

 any fish whatsoever, except by angling with hook and line, in any 

 of the lakes or streams, or inlets or outlets of said streams, or any 

 waters of the Territory of Dakota, except the Missouri and Red 

 Rivers. 



It is unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill or destroy by any 

 device whatsoever, any Pike, Pickerel, Perch, Bass or Muskalonge, 

 except for the purposes of propagating or breeding, in any of the 

 waters of the Territory of Dakota, except the Missouri and Red 

 Rivers, between the first day of February and the first day of May 

 in any year, or expose the same for sale during this period. 



