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the protection and preservation of game and fish in their respective counties, and to 

 conserve the same for the use and consumption of the inhabitants. 



Secs. 2120, 2121. [Boards of supervisors authorized to regulate times and places 

 in which game may be taken, and to adopt such regulations, not contrary to law, as 

 they deem necessary for the protection of game in their counties.] 



Sec. 2123. [Boards of supervisors may entirely prohibit the taking of any species 

 of game for one or more years or seasons when they believe that the species of game 

 is about to be destroyed or become extinct.] 



MISSOURI. 

 Laws of 1895, p. 182. 



Sec. 1. * * * It is further declared unlawful to kill any wild song bird or 

 insectivorous bird at any season of the year, or to disturb, rob or destroy the nests 

 of such birds, or take therefrom any egg or eggs. [Killing of turtle doves and meadow- 

 larks permitted between August 1 and January 1.] * * * And any person 

 offending against any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 

 dollars. 



Approved April 8, 1895. 



MONTANA. 



Laws of 1897, p. 251. 



Sec 7. Every person, who, wilfully shoots, or otherwise kills or causes to be killed, 

 any meadow lark, blue bird, thrush, oriole, woodpecker, mocking bird, gold-finch, 

 snow-bird, cedar-bird, stork, or any other of the small birds known as singing birds, 

 shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, nor less than five 

 Dollars and by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed three months, or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment. 



Sec. 9. Any person who shall wilfully destroy the nests or carry away the eggs 

 from the nests of any of the birds or wild fowls mentioned in this Act, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not 

 less than Eive Dollars nor more than Twenty five Dollars for each offense committed, 

 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not exceeding sixty days, or 

 both, at the discretion of the court. 



Sec 25. None of the Sections of this Act shall apply to persons hunting or other- 

 wise engaged in collecting specimens under the direction of, and in the interest of 

 any State Educational Institution of the State of Montana. 



Approved March 8, 1897. 



NEBRASKA. 



Compiled Statutes, 9th. ed., 1899 (Criminal Code, Chap. XI), p. 1384. 



Sec. 6736. It shall be unlawful for any person in the State of Nebraska to know- 

 ingly and intentionally kill, injure, or harm, except upon the lands owned by such 

 person, any robin, lark, thrush, bluebird, king bird, sparrow, wren, jay, swallow, 

 turtle dove, oriole, wood pecker, yellow hammer, cuckoo, yellow bird, bobolink, or 

 other bird or birds of like nature, that promote agriculture and horticulture, by feed- 

 ing on noxious worms and insects, or that are attractive in appearance or cheerful 

 in song. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined 

 not less than three nor more than ten dollars for each bird killed, injured, or harmed. 



