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WORTH DAKOTA. 

 Laws of 1899, chap. 93, p. 125. 



Sec. 2. [It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill, or wound any of the 

 birds hereinafter mentioned without having first obtained a permit, under penalty of 

 a fine of $20 to $50 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days: Provided, That nothing 

 in this section shall prevent any resident of this State, or member of his family liv- 

 ing at home, from hunting on lands owned or controlled by him during the open 

 season as provided by law, gr shall prevent children under the age of 16 years from 

 hunting if they have the written consent of their parents or guardians.] 



Sec. 4. [The county auditor shall issue permits to any person applying therefor, on 

 payment of $25, if the applicant is a nonresident of the State, and on payment of 75 

 cents if a resident of this State. All permits shall expire on the thirty-first day of 

 December next after their issuance. It shall be unlawful for the State game warden 

 or any of his deputies, or any county auditor, to issue complimentary or special 

 permits.] 



Sec. 7. Every person who either: 



1 Shoots or kills * * * any song bird or insect-eating bird, except snipe or 

 plover, at any time; or 



4 Shoots or kills any * * * crane * * * between the first day of May and 

 the twentieth day of August following; or 



6 Uses or employes any trap, snare, net or bird lime, or medicated, drugged or 

 poisoned grain or food to capture or kill any of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 

 1, 2, 3, or 4 of this section; or 



7 Wantonly destroys any nest or eggs of any of the birds mentioned * * * 



Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the 

 peace of the county, is punishable by a fine, of not exceeding ten dollars for each of 

 the birds mentioned in subdivisions 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this section, so shot or killed or 

 nest or eggs so destroyed, and for each violation of subdivisions 5 or 6 of this sec- 

 tion. * * * 



Approved March 8, 1899. 



OHIO. 



Revised Statutes, 1897 (as amended by General Acts of 1898, Vol. XCIII, 



p. 106). 



Sec. 6960. No person shall at any time, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, 

 any sparrow, nuthatch, warbler, flicker, viroe [vireo], wren, robin, catbird, tanager, 

 bobolink, blue-jay, oriole, grosbeak or red bird, creeper, redstart, waxwing, wood- 

 pecker, humming bird, bunting, starling, redwing, purple martin, brown thrasher, 

 American goldfinch, chewink or ground robin, pewee or phoebe bird, chickadee, fly 

 catcher, gnat catcher, mouse hawk, whippoorwill, snowbird, titmouse or eagle. No 

 person shall, at any time, destroy the eggs or nest of any of the birds named in this 

 section. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined as provided in section 6968; 

 provided further, that nothing in this act shall prohibit the killing of the house or 

 English sparrow at any time, by anybody, or prohibit the killing of the American 

 robin and blue-jay, by the owner or tenant of any premises where such birds are 

 found destroying berries or fruit growing on such premises. 



Sec. 6960a. The provisions in section 6960 of this act shall not apply to any person 

 holding a permit giving the right to take birds or their nests and eggs for scientific 

 purposes as herein provided. [Permits may be granted by the president of the fish 



