bb LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



history associations or to the proprietors of museums, or other collections for scien- 

 tific purposes, nor to nonresidents of the Commonwealth passing through it or tem- 

 porarily dwelling within the limits thereof. 

 Approved April 14, 1898; in effect April 1, 1899. 



Acts and Resolves of 1899, chap. 116, p. 57. 



[Every Lord's day shall be close season. Whoever hunts or destroys birds or 

 game of any kind on this day, shall be liable to the penalties imposed for violation of 

 the law in other close seasons, in addition to those for shooting on the Lord's day.] 



Approved March 1, 1899. 



MICHIGAN. 



Public Acts of 1893, No. 196, pp. 312-314. 



Sec. 1. That no person shall at any time or in any manner acquire any property 

 in, or subject to his dominion or control, any of the birds, game or fish, the killing, 

 taking, or having in posse.ssion of which is at any time or at all times prohibited by 

 any of the laws of this State, that they shall always and under all circumstances and 

 conditions be and remain the sole property of the State. * * * When their 

 killing is not prohibited liy law, the same may be used at the time, in the manner, 

 an<l for the purposes expre.ssly authorized l>y law, but not otherwise. 



SEf. 2. [No person, company or corporation shall at any time take, kill or liave in 

 jxissession witli intent to ship lieyond the limits of the State any of the l)irds the 

 killing of which is at any time or all times prohibited by law, or shall ship, allow or 

 aiil in their shipment out of the State.] 



Sec. 5. [Sail' or pos.session of birds during close seasons prohibited. But nothing 

 in this act sliall prevent the taking or catching alive of l)irds for domestication, propa- 

 gation, or breeding purposes.] 



fiKC. (5. [Any person violating any of the ]>rovisions of this act shall be iiimi.><hed 

 by a fine of $10-$50, or imprisonment not excee<ling .'50 days.] 



.\pproved June 1, lS9;i. 



Public Acts of 1897, No. 159. p. 202. 



Sec. 14 [(as amended by Act.s of 1899, p. 80.) Protects "wild ducks * * * 

 or other wild water ff)wl" between February 1 and August 31, except in Upper 

 Peninsula, where the close season is January 16 to .\ugu.st 81. It also protect.s wild 

 pigeons at all times until 1905, and thereafter from December 1 fo OctolxT 19.] 



Sec. 17. No person or i>ersons shall at any time or in any maimer wiiatever injure 

 or des^troy or rob the ne.st, or take, injure, destroy or have in i)r)s.'<e.«.sion the eggs of 

 any bird the killing of which is at any time or at all times ]iroliibited by law, nor 

 shall any person or persons at any time or in any niamu'r whatever, molest, hara.ss 

 or annoy such birds while on their nesting places. 



Sec. 19. [Provides for the protection of pigeon roosts until after 1905.] 



Sec. 20. No person or persons shall at any time or in any manner whatever injure, 

 kill or destroy, or attempt to injure, kill or des^troy, any robin, night hawk, wliip- 

 jMior-will, finch, thrush, lark, swallow, yellow binl, ])lue bird, brown thresher, cat 

 bird, wren, martin, oriole, sea gull, woo<lpecker, Ijobolink, or any song bird or 

 insectivorous bird excepting black bird, ]»lue jay, Knglish sparrowsand l>utcher bird. 



Sec. 21. The term "giune bird" u.«ed in this act shall be constnied to mean all 

 birds named or referre<l to except those mentioned an<l referred to in section twenty. 



Sec. 27. [State game and fish warden authorized to issue ])ermits in writing for 

 colle<ting birds for scientific or jiropagating purposes. Such jK-rmits are not trans- 

 fera])le.] 



