62 LEGISLATION FOR THE PEOTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Revised Statutes, 1892, Appendix, chap. 4050, p. 992. 



Sec. 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to kill, in this State, for 

 the purpose of sale or commercial traffic any of the following named plumed birds: 

 That is to say any crane, egret, ibis, curlew or heron. 



Sec. 2. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to purchase, trade or 

 traffic in any of the plumed birds hereinbefore mentioned, or for commercial pur- 

 poses to purchase, trade or trafiic in the plumes or pelfry of the said plumed birds 

 of the State. 



Sec. 3. That whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall l)e guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceed- 

 ing three hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months, 

 at the discretion of the court. 



Approved June 5, 1891. 



GEORGIA. 



Public Laws of 1896, Title VII, No. 68, p. 74. 



Sec. 1. * * * It shall ])e unlawful for any peivon to shoot, trap, kill, ensnare, 

 net or destroy in any manner * * * any inscT-tivomus or .ringing bird, except 

 English si>arr(iws, crows, larks, rice birds, night-hawks, wheat birds and doves, 

 l)etween tlie fifteenth day of March ami the lii-st day of November. It shall also be 

 unlawful to shoot, traji, kill, ensnare, net or in any manner destroy any dove 

 Ix'tween the fifteenth <lay of March and the fifteenth day of August. It shall also 

 be milawful for any pers<jn to remove from the nests, or in any manner destroy the 

 eggs of any of the l)irds protecteil by this Act during tlie i)eriods they are so pro- 

 tected. * * * It shall be further unlawful for any jn-rson to sell or offer for sale 

 any game, bird or animal, or suiy part of either, whether dead or alive, that are prt)- 

 tecte<l by this Act during the periods so protecte<l, and it shall be taken and deemed 

 as jtrima fnrie evidence of a violation of the j>rovision of this .'Section for any i)erson 

 or persons to be fountl in ])os.«ession of any of the animals or birds (or the t»ggs of 

 birds) during the jK-rioils in whidi they are protectetl by this Act, an<l any jK-rson 

 or i>ersons wlio shall violate any of the jirovisions of this Ai-t lus enumerated in this 

 section shall 1h' guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Ai>prove<l I^ecemlKT '22, 1S5H). 



General Laws of 1898, Title VI, No. 13, p. 259. 



Shc. 1. * * * Tiiat from and after the passage of this .\ct, the baiting or kill- 

 ing of dov»-s thus baited, any sea.M>n of the year, shall l>e a misdemeanor, and any 

 jK'rson ionvittid thereof sliall l)e fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 

 d. .liars. 



A].i.n.V(d Dfct-mlu-r 6, 189S. 



ILLINOIS. 



Laws of 1899, pp. 224-228. 



Skc. 1. [Permits killing of mourning doves Initween SejitendnT 1 and Det-emluT 1.] 



Sec. 3. Any i>erson who shall, within the State, kill or catch or have in his or her 



jjossession, living or < lead, any wild bird t>ther than a game bin!, English sparrow, 



crow, crow-l»lackV»ir<i or chicken hawk, or who shall i>urcha.s«', offer or exptsi' for 



sale any .such wild bird after it haa bet^u killed or caught, shall, for each offense, Ixj 



