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Skc. 15o. No person shall, in this State, at any time, molest or destroy the nests or 

 eggs of any of the aforesaid birds, except those of hawks or other birds destructive to 

 domestic poultry and game birds, or those of English sparrows, crows and black- 

 birds, under a penalty of not less than one nor more than five (^5) dollars nor more 

 than twenty-five ($25) for each and every such offense. 



Sec. 15r. [Provides for issue of certificates by State Game Warden to persons over 

 18 years of age, for killing birds or collecting eggs for purely scientific purposes, pro- 

 vided application and affidavit have been filed with the warden.] 



Approved April 9, 1898. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 

 Supplement Public Statutes, 1888, chap. 276, p. 435. 



Sec. 2. Whoever takes or kills * * * a wild or passenger pigeon, or a gull, or 

 a tern, between the first day of May and the first day of October, shall be punished 

 by a fine of ten dollars for every bird so taken or killed. 



Sec. 4. Whoever takes or kills any wild or undomesticated bird not named in sec- 

 tions one and two [the species there named are pinnated grouse, woodcock, ruffed 

 grouse, quail, ducks, plover, snipe, sandpiper, rail, shore birds, wild pigeon, gull and 

 tern] except English sparrows, crow blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey, wild 

 geese, and such fresh water and sea fowl as are not named in sections one and two, 

 or wilfully destroj^s, disturbs or takes a nest or eggs of any wild or undomesticated 

 birds, except of the birds herein exempt from protection, shall be punished by a 

 fine of ten dollars : Provided, That any person above the age of twenty-one years hav- 

 ing a certificate from the game commissioners or from the president of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History to the effect that such jierson is engaged in the scientific 

 study of ornithology or collecting in the interest of a scientific institution, may take 

 the nests and eggs of, or at any season take or kill, any undomesticated bird, except 

 woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail. * * * And provided further, That the game 

 commissioners and the president of the Boston Society of Natural History may at any 

 time revoke any certificate they have respectively issued. 



Act of June 10, 1886. 



Acts and Resolves of 1897, chap. 140, p. 102. 



CAPE ANN. 



Whoever takes or kills * * * any land bird, except the English sparrow, within 

 the limits of that section of this Commonwealth bounded by Squam river, Ipswich 

 bay, the Atlantic ocean, Massachusetts bay and Gloucester harbor, at any time 

 within five years from the passage of this act, shall be punished by a fine of twenty 

 dollars for every * * * bird so taken or killed. 



Approved March 8, 1897. 



Acts and Resolves of 1898, chap. 339, p. 275. 



Sec. 1 [chap. 524, Acts of 1897, amended to read:] AVhoever has in his possession 

 the body or feathers of any bird whose taking or killing is prohibited b}^ section four 

 of chapter two hundred and seventy-six of the acts of the year eighteen hmidred and 

 eighty six 1= chap. 276, Pub. Stat. , 1888] , whether taken in this Commonwealth or 

 elsewhere, or wears such feathers for the purpose of dress or ornament, shall be pun- 

 ished as provided in said section: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to 

 prohibit persons having the certificate provided for in said section from taking or 

 killing such birds; and provided further, That this act shall not apply to natural 



