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Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall, on 

 conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars for each and every violation, or in default 

 of payment thereof by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of one day for 

 each dollar of penalty imposed: Provided, That any of such birds may be killed or 

 otherwise destroyed when they eat or destroy strawberries, grapes, cherries or other 

 fruits or vegetables. 



Sec. 6. [No person shall at any time kill or have in possession any of the birds of 

 this State with intent to ship the same beyond the State, and it shall not be lawful 

 to transport beyond the limits of this State any of the game birds mentioned in 

 this act] 



Sec. 9. Be it further enacted. Except as provided for in section 2, no person for 

 any reason or purpose whatever, shall take, have in his or her possession or under 

 control, break or destroy or in any manner interfere with any nest or the eggs therein 

 of any of the kinds of birds, the killing of which is at any time or all time herein 

 prohibited : Provided, That this does not apply to persons who have obtained certifi- 

 cates permitting them to collect the nests and eggs of wild birds other than game 

 birds. Whosoever shall offend against any of the provisions of this section shall, on 

 conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars for each and every offense so committed, 

 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of one day for each dollar of pen- 

 alty imposed. 



Sec. 14. * * * Provided, the provisions of this act shall not apply to the coun- 

 ties of Hale, Tuscaloosa, Marengo, Wilcox, Marion, Greene, Pickens, Coosa, Clay, 

 Choctaw, Calhoun, Limestone, Clarke, Washington, Chambers, Lawrence, Coffee, 

 Autauga, St. Clair, Franklin, Geneva, Walker, Randolph, Lowndes, Pike, Lauderdale, 

 Butler, Bullock, Dale, Henry, Russell, Cleburne, Lfee, Winston, Hale, Blount, Baldwin, 

 Dallas, Chilton, Talladega, Escambia, Elmore, Lamar, Sumter, Fayette, DeKalb, 

 Mobile, Bibb, Cherokee, Etowah, Marshall, Barbour, Jefferson, Tallapoosa, Shelby, 

 Crenshaw, Colbert, Conecuh and Jackson, and it shall not apply to Montgomery 

 county except in so far as game birds and mammals are concerned. 



Approved February 8, 1899. 



ALASKA. 



[The code of Alaska is now before Congress. During the discussion in the House 

 of Representatives on May 24, 1900, an amendment was made to section 29, prohib- 

 iting the shipment of eggs of cranes, brant, geese, or ducks. ^] 



ARIZONA. =* 



Acts of 1897, No. 41, pp. 77-78. 



Sec. 3. [Every person who shall take, gather, or destroy the eggs of any dove or 

 of certain game birds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.] 



Sec. 4. [Makes killing or possession of doves between March 1 and June 1 a mis- 

 demeanor.] 



ARKANSAS. 



Acts of 1897, Act XLI, p. 53. 



Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within the State of Arkansas to kill, 

 wound or injure any wild bird other than the game birds, or to destroy, disturb or 

 rob the nests of any such birds, or to sell or expose for sale, either dead or alive, any 

 of such birds, or. to sell or expose for sale, any of the eggs of any such birds; and it 

 shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, steamboat company, 



iCong. Record, XXXIII, p. 6419, May 24, 1900. 



^This law jjrovides only for the preservation of game birds, and in addition to doves 

 protects quail, bob-white, partridge, grouse, wild turkey, snipe, rail, wild ducks, 

 geese, and brant. 



