80 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Sec. 432. It shall not be lawful for any person in this State to -catch, kill, injure, 

 sell or expose for sale * * * any dove between the first day of March and the 

 first day of August. And any person so doing shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty dollars or 

 be imprisoned not more than thirty days. 



Sec. 433. Nothing herein shall apply to any person who shall kill or take any of 

 the said birds for the purpose of studying its habits or history, or having the same 

 stuffed and set up as a specimen, or to any person who shall kill on his premises any 

 of the said birds in the act of destroying fruit or grain crops. 



SOUTH DAKOTA. 

 Session Laws of 1899, chap. 90, p. 111. 



Sec. 1. (1) Every person who shoots or kills * * * any song bird or insect 

 eating bird at any time, excepting crows, blackbirds and sparrows; or (2). * * * 

 kills any * * * wild crane between the first day of May and the first day of 

 September following; * * * or (4) uses or employs any trap, snare, net or bird 

 lime, or medicated, drugged or poisoned grain or food to capture or kill any of the 

 birds mentioned * * * or (5) wantonly destroys any nest of [or] eggs or [of] 

 any of the birds mentioned * * * (8) is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 

 viction thereof before a justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of 

 not more than ten dollars ($10) for each of the birds mentioned * * * so shot 

 or killed or nests or eggs so destroyed. 



Sec. 4. Any attempt to violate any provision of any section of this Act shall be 

 deemed a violation of such provision. 



Approved March 6, 1899. 



TENNESSEE. 1 

 Annotated Code, 1896. 



[Article XI, section 13 of the constitution provides that "The general assembly 

 shall have power to enact laws for the protection and preservation of game and fish 

 within the State, and such laws may be enacted for and applied and enforced in 

 particular counties or geographical districts, designated by the general assembly."] 



Sec. 2898. [It shall be unlawful for any person to kill "any song bird, or bird that 

 feeds on insects that destroy fruit trees," in the county of Hardin between March 15 

 and September 15, or to destroy the nests or young of such birds. (1889, chap. 95, 

 sec. 2.)] 



Sec. 2899. [Penalty for violation of section 2898, a fine of not less than $5.] 



Secs. 2905, 2907. [Prohibit killing of larks in Warren County between March 1 and 

 October 1, under penalty of fine of $10 to $25 for each lark killed. . (1895, chap. 162.) ] 



Sec. 2936. No person shall hunt, capture, or kill any song bird, as the mocking 

 bird, thrush, robin, and oriole; or any game bird as the * * * lark; or any bird 

 that feeds on insects which destroy fruit trees, as the sparrow, catbird, bluebird, and 

 woodpecker, in Eobertson, Davidson, Maury, and Shelby counties, from the first day 

 of February to the first day of September; nor in Lincoln county from the first day 

 of March to the fifteenth day of September. (1873, chap. 83; 1877, chap. 162; 1870, 

 chap. 99. ) 



Sec. 2937. No person shall at any time destroy the nests or eggs of any of said birds 

 in any of the counties named in last section. (Ibid.) » 



'These laws are compiled from the Annotated Code. There may be other County 

 laws passed since 1896 which have been overlooked. 



