78 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



other wild birds except as hereinafter provided. This act shall not apply to any 

 person holding a certificate giving the right to take birds and their nests and eggs 

 and game mammals for scientific purposes in accordance with the following pro- 

 visions. [Certificates may be granted by board of game commissioners to any prop- 

 erly accredited person of fifteen years of age or upward. The applicant must present 

 to the board written testimonials as to his good character and fitness from two well 

 known scientific men, must pay five dollars, and must file a properly executed 

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

 Commonwealth as sureties. Certificates shall be in force one year from date of 

 issue and shall not be transferable.] The English or Euroj)ean house sparrow, the 

 kingfisher, cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, duck hawk, pigeon hawk, great 

 horned owl, and barred owl, green heron and night heron are not to be included among 

 the birds protected by this act. Any person or persons violating any of the i^ro- 

 visions of this act shall l)e lialile tt) a penalty of ten dollars for each and every viola- 

 tion, or in default of jiayment thereof by imprisonment in the comity jail for a period 

 of one day for each dollar of penalty imposed. 



Sec. 6. [No person shall catch, take, kill or have in his possession any of the 

 birds, the killing of Avhich is prohibited, with intent to ship or remove the same 

 beyond the limits of this State or with intent to allow or aid in the shipment or 

 removal thereof out of this State.] 



Sec. 10. Except as provided for in section two, no person, for any reason or pur- 

 pose whatever, shall take, have in liis or her possession or under control, break or 

 destroy or in any manner interfere witli any nest or tlie eggs tlierein or [of?] any of 

 the kinds i)i birds the killing of which is at any time or all time herein prohibited: 

 Provided, That this does not apply to persons who have ol)tained certificates permit- 

 ting them to collect the nests and eggs of wild birds other than game] )irds. Who- 

 ever shall offend again.st any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a 

 penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense so connnitted, or by imprison- 

 ment in the county jail for a period of one day for each dollar of penalty imposed. 



Ajjproved June 4, 1897. 



Sec. 11. (Act of June, 1878.) [No person shall kill any reedbird except ni the 

 jiionths of Sejitember, ()ctolK>r an<l Noveml)er.] 



Sec. 1. (Act of May 17, 1883.) [It shall be lawful to kill web-footed wild fowl 

 only from September 1 to May 1 in each year.] 



RHODE ISLAin). 



General Laws, 1896, chap. 112, p. 380 (as amended by Public Laws of 

 1900, chap. 746.) 



Sec. 1. pAery pei-son who shall take, kill, destroy, buy, sell, or offer for sale, or 

 have in his j)o.s.session any wild bird, or birds, at any season of the year, except as 

 hereinafter provided, shall l>e fineil twenty dollars for each of such ])irds. 



Sec. 2. Every person who shall pursue with intent to kill any wild bird, except 

 as hereinafter jmjvided, shall be fined twenty dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 3. Every ])erson who shall wilfully <listurb or destroy the nest or eggs of any 

 wild bird, except as hereinafter provided, shall be lined twenty dollars for eai-li 

 offence. 



Sec. 5. Sections 1, 2, and 3 of chapter 112 shall not apply to the killing of English 

 sparrows, hawks (except fishhawks) , owls, crows, and crow-blackbirds at any 

 season of the year, l)y any person on his own lantl. 



Sec. 11. Every jjersoii who shall lu'tween the sixteenth day of Decenil)er an<l the 

 loth day of Octo])er next following, inclusive, slioot at or kill any bird upon land 

 not owned or oci-npied by himself, and without luTinission of the owner oroccni»ant 



