72 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



NEVADA. 

 Statutes of 1893, Chap. XLIX, p. 49. 



Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation 

 or association, to kill, destroy, wound, trap, snare, injure or in any other manner to 

 catch, or capture, or to pursue with such intent, any sparrow, bluebird, bluejay, 

 martin, thrush, mocking-bird, redbreast, cat-bird, wren, robin, meadow-lark, or 

 humming-bird, or any song bird, except linnets, within this State, or who shall take, 

 injure or destroy the nest or eggs of said before mentioned birds. 



Sec. 2 [ (as amended by Statutes of 1895, Chap. LVIII, p. 55) . Makes it unlawful 

 to kill sand hill cranes between April 1 and September 15, or bitterns and yellow 

 hammers between March 15 and September 15.] 



Sec. 6. * * * Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to pro- 

 hibit any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, taking any 

 bird, fowl, or animal mentioned in this Act, at any time, for scientific purposes. 



Sec 7. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, or com- 

 mon carrier, or the agent of any such firm, company, corporation, or association, or 

 common carrier, violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five 

 ($25) dollars, nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars, or imprisonment in the 

 county jail of the county in which said conviction is had, for any term not exceeding 

 six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition to the costs now 

 allowed by law on criminal prosecution, twenty-five ($25) dollars liquidated damages, 

 shall be entered up as costs against each defendant, and * * * shall be paid to 

 the party instrumental in securing the arrest and conviction of said defendant. 



Approved February 27, 1893. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

 Public Statutes, 1891, chap. 132, p. 365. 



Sec. 1. If any person shall, at any season of the year, take or destroy any robin, 

 thrush, lark, bluebird, sparrow (except English sparrows), finch, bunting, martin, 

 oriole, swallow, flycatcher, warbler, tanager, bobolink, vireo, nuthatch, creeper, 

 woodpecker, humming-bird, or any other of the song or insectivorous birds, he shall 

 be fined five dollars for each bird so taken or destroyed, or be imprisoned not exceed- 

 ing thirty days, or both. 



Sec 6. If any person shall designedly take from the nest and destroy the eggs or 

 young of robins, thrushes, larks, bluebirds, sparrows (except English sparrows), 

 martins, woodpeckers, bobolinks, yellow-birds, linnets, flycatchers, warblers, * * * 

 or wild pigeons, he shall forfeit and pay, for every egg or young of any of said birds 

 so taken and destroyed, the sum of two dollars. 



Sec. 9. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the collecting of specimens 

 for the cabinet of an educational institution by the curator thereof, or by or under 

 his direction. 



Laws of 1899, chap. 44, p. 279. 



Sec. 1. If any person shall, for a period of three years from and after the passage 

 of this act, kill any American or bald eagle he shall be punished by a fine of forty 

 dollars for each bird so killed, or be imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both. 



Approved March 8, 1899. 



