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and game commission to any properly accredited person. Applicants must present 

 to said president of the fish and game commission written testimonials as to good 

 character and fitness from two well-known scientific men or teachers of science, must 

 pay one dollar, and must file a properly executed bond in the sum of one hundred 

 dollars signed by at least two responsible citizens of the State as sureties. Permits 

 shall be in force two years from date of issue and shall not be transferable.] 



Sec. 6961. [No person shall kill any dove except between July 4 and December 15, 

 or destroy the eggs or nests of any of the birds named in this section. No person 

 shall hunt, shoot, or trap, or have in possession in the open air, the implements for 

 hunting, shooting, or trapping, on the first day of the week, called Sunday.] 



Passed April 12, 1898. 



Sec. 6965. [Prohibits killing, maiming, or discharging firearms at any wild pigeon 

 while it is on its nesting ground or at its roosting place, or breaking up or disturbing 

 any pigeon roost or nesting place or the birds therein, or discharging any firearm 

 within one-half mile of any pigeon roost or nesting place, or disturbing or destroy- 

 ing any pigeon eggs or nestlings, under penalty provided in section 6968.] 



Sec. 6968. [Any person convicted of any violation of any of the provisions of this 

 act shall be fined not less than twenty-five (25) dollars, nor more than one hundred 

 (100) dollars, and in case of neglect or refusal to pay said fine, be imprisoned in the 

 county jail or workhouse, and shall there remain for the full period of thirty days. 

 (Revised Statutes, 1897.)] 



OKLAHOMA. 



Session Laws of 1899, Chap. XV, p. 164. 



Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to wound, kill, ensnare, or trap in any 

 manner within this Territory, any * * * wren, martin, swallow, robin, turkey 

 buzzard, plover, dove or insectiverous [sic] birds, or pursue the same with such 

 intent or to have the same in their possession, except * * * it shall be lawful to 

 shoot plover and dove between the first day of August and the thirty-first day of 

 December of each year * * * and any person who shall violate any of the pro- 

 visions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be, on 

 conviction, fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 

 lars, with costs of suit, and in default of payment shall be committed until same is 

 paid. 



Approved March 10, 1899. 



OREGON. 



General Laws of 1895, p. 59. Act to protect the native song birds. 



Sec. 1. Every person who shall, within the State of Oregon, after the passage of 

 this act, for any purpose, injure, take, kill or destroy, or have in his possession, sell 

 or offer for sale any yellow-breasted chat, meadow lark, robin, song sparrow, lark- 

 finch, variegated thrush, wood thrush, hermit-thrush, American goldfinch, bhiebird, 

 snowbird, oriole, lazuli-finch, house and winter wren, pine linnet, California linnet, 

 warblers, vireo, swallow, tanager, grossbeaks, kinglets or horned lark, shall be guilty 

 of misdemeanor. 



Sec. 2. Every person who shall, within the State of Oregon, at any time after the 

 passage of this act, destroy or remove from nests of any yellow-breasted chat, meadow 

 lark, robin, song sparrow, lark-finch, variegated thrush, wood thrush, hermit-thrush, 

 American goldfinch, bluebird, snowbird, oriole, lazuli-finch, house and winter wren, 

 pine linnet, California linnet, warblers, vireo, swallow, tanager, grossbeak, kinglets 

 or horned larks, any egg or eggs of such birds or have in possession, sell, or offer for 



