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thereof, shall forfeit and pay to the owner or occupant thereof Ave dollars for the first 

 offence and ten dollars for every subsequent offence in addition to the damages 

 sustained. 



Sec. 12. Any person above the age of fifteen years, having a certificate from the 

 curator of the museum of zoology of Brown University, the President of the Rhode 

 Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, or from any incorporated society 

 of natural history or college in the State, to the effect that said person is engaged in 

 the scientific study of ornithology, or is making collections in the interest of, or for 

 said institutions, or any one of them, may take the nest and eggs of, or at any season 

 of the year may take or kill, any undomesticated birds, except those named in section 

 four [woodcock, ruffed grouse, quail, black duck, wood-duck, teal, coot, scoter, or 

 any other duck, geese, brant, peep, plover, snipe, sandpiper, sanderling, greater and 

 lesser yellowlegs, curlew, and rail]. 



Passed May 4, 1900. 



Sec. 16 (as amended by chap. 678, Public Laws of 1899, p. 119). [Provides that the 

 governor shall appoint five commissioners of birds one from each county, who shall 

 hold office for three years and shall protect birds throughout the state and prosecute 

 every person violating laws relating to birds. Said commissioners may appoint depu- 

 ties not exceeding five in each county and any commissioner or deputy may arrest, 

 without warrant, every person whom they shall find pursuing with intent to kill, tak- 

 ing or killing birds, or who shall have birds in his possession contrary to the laws of 

 the state relating to birds; and may seize without warrant, any birds found in the 

 possession of any person when killing of such birds is prohibited.] 



Passed May 25, 1899. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Revised. Statutes, 1893, vol. 2, p. 405. 



Sec. 426. It shall not be lawful for any person in this State to wantonly shoot, or 

 entrap for the purpose of killing, or in any other manner destroy, any bird whose 

 principal food is insects, or take or destroy the eggs or young of any of the species 

 or varieties of birds that are protected by the provisions of this Section, comprising 

 all the species and varieties of birds represented by the several families of bats, 

 whippoorwills, fly-catchers, thrashers, warblers, finches, larks, orioles, nut-hatchers 

 [sic], woodpeckers, humming birds, blue-birds, and all other species and varieties 

 of land birds, whether great or small, of every description, regarded as harmless in 

 their habits, and whose flesh is unfit for food, including the turkey buzzard, but 

 excluding the jackdaw, the crow, the crow black-bird, the eagle, and all hawks and 

 owls which prey upon other birds ; and any person violating the provisions of this 

 . Section shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a fine of ten dollars or be impris- 

 oned not less than ten days, * * * Provided, that no person shall be prevented 

 from protecting any crop of fruit or grain on his own lands from the depredations 

 of any birds herein intended to be protected. (1872, XIV, 160.) 



Sec. 427. No person or persons shall at any time or place within this State take, 

 kill, sell, expose for sale, export beyond the limits of the State, or cause to be taken, 

 killed, sold, exposed for sale or exported beyond the limits of the State, any mock- 

 ing bird, nonpareil, swallow, bee bird, red-bird, woodpecker, thrush or wren under 

 a penalty of five dollars for each bird so taken, killed, sold, exposed for sale or 

 exported beyond the limits of the State; and it shall be lawful for any person to 

 take or destroy any net, traps or snares used for taking such birds wheresoever found 

 set for such purpose: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prohibit any 

 person from taking and keeping any bird of song or plumage for his own pleasure or 

 amusement, and not for sale, traffic or gain. (1878, XVI, 406; 1883, XVIII, 324.) 



Sec. 428. No person or persons shall destroy or rob the nests of any of the said 

 birds under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense. 



