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hundred dollars, and cost of the action for each offense, or may be imprisoned not less 

 than fifty days nor more than one hundred days, or by such fine and imprisonment 

 as the judgment of the court may direct. 

 Approved March 16, 1889. 



Penal Code, 1897, Appendix, p. 563. 



SEA GULLS. 



Sec. 1. Every person who willfully kills or destroys any of that species of sea birds 

 known as gulls, within five miles of the town of Santa Monica, in Los Angeles 

 county, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Approved March 15, 1876. 



COLORADO. 



Laws of 1897, chap. 8, pp. 40-49. 



Sec. 15. No person shall at any time kill, ensnare, net or trap any robin, lark, 

 whip-poor-will, finch, sparrow, thrush, wren, martin, swallow, snowbird, bobolink, 

 red-winged black bird, croAV, raven, turkey buzzard, oriole, king bird, mocking bird, 

 song sparrow or other insectiverous [sic] bird or birds or any pheasant, quail, ptar- 

 migan or partridge. * * * 



Sec. 31 . [Pro^^des for issue of certificates for collecting birds for scientific purposes 

 only, by State forest, game and fish commissioner to any member of any natural his- 

 tory society or other scientific body organized for study of natural history or any 

 person accredited by such society. Specimens collected under certificate can only be 

 disposed of by exchange. Applicant must file with commissioner written testi- 

 monials certifying to his fitness from two well-known citizens, a properly executed 

 bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, signed by two responsible persons of the 

 State as sureties and must pay the sum of $5. Certificates shall be in force for only 

 three months from date of issue and shall not be transferable.] 



Sec. 48. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act * * * shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum 

 not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or imprisoned 

 in the county jail not less than ten days, nor more than six months, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment; Provided, That the minimum penalty * * * for any 

 violation of Sections 15 * * * of this Act, shall be ten dollars. The killing or 

 otherwise taking of each bird * * * mentioned in this Act or the possession 

 thereof in violation of this Act shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. 



Approved April 16, 1897. 



Laws of 1899, chap. 98, p. 188. 



Division A, Sec. 16. All game and fish now or hereafter within this State not held 

 by private ownership, legally acquired, and which for the purposes of this act shall 

 include all the quadrupeds, birds and fish mentioned in this act, are hereby declared 

 to be the property of the State, and no right, title, interest or jjroperty therein can 

 be acquired or transferred, or possession thereof had or maintained except as herein 

 expressly provided. 



Sec. 18. As used in this act * * * the prohibition and restriction shall, where 

 not specifically otherwise provided extend to and include every part of such game 

 or fish, and a violation as to each indiAddual animal or part thereof shall be a sepa- 

 rate offense, and two or more offenses may be charged in the same complaint, infor- 

 mation or indictment * * * 



