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WASHINGTON. 



Session Laws of 1897, Cliap. LII, p. 86. 



Sec. 9. [Prohibits trapping of wild pigeons under penalty provided in section 18.] 



Sec. 16. Every person who shall, at any time, take, kill, injure or destroy, trap, 

 ensnare, molest or disturb, or have in his possession, sell, or offer for sale, any night- 

 ingale, skylark, black thrush, gray singing thrush, goldfinch, greenfinch, bullfinch, 

 red breasted robin, English robin, black starling, grosbeak, meadow lark, mocking 

 bird, wild canary bird, or other song bird, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 17. Every person who shall at any time, take from the nest of any song bird, 

 the egg or eggs of such birds, or disturb, molest or destroy the nest of the song birds 

 of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 

 punished as hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 18. Every person convicted of any of the misdemeanors defined in the fore- 

 going sections of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) 

 nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, together with the costs of the prosecution 

 in such action, and in default of the jjayment of said fine, shall be imprisoned in the 

 county jail one day for each two dollars ($2) of such fine. 



Approved March 11, 1897. 



Session Laws of 1899, Chap. V, p. 7. 



Sec. 1. [Every person who shall kill any sandhill crane between March 1 and 

 August 15 of any year shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.] 



WEST VIRGINIA. 

 Code, 1891, Chap. LXII, p. 604. 



Sec. 10 (as amended by Acts of 1897, chap. 30, p. 85). It shall be unlawful for any 

 person at any time to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with intent to catch, kill or 

 injure, or to have in his possession, either dead or alive, any of the birds, or their 

 kindred or allied species, in this section hereinafter mentioned; and it shall, also, be 

 unlawful for any person to disturb or destroy the eggs or nest of any of the birds or 

 their kindred or allied species, in this section hereinafter named; that is to say: 

 turkey buzzard, the family of pingilladfe [sic] or si^arrows, except English sparrows, 

 robin, bluebird, martin, thrush, mocking-bird, swallow, oriole, cat-bird, chewink, 

 wren, cuckoo, indigo-bird, nuthatch, yellow-hammer or flicker, warbler or finch, 

 redstart, dummock, nightingale, crossbill, Hmigarian robin, titmouse, tit or tomtit, 

 woodpecker or ];)urple grackle, red-wing, blackbird, blue-jay, phoebe-bird or pewee, 

 redbird or cardinal grosbeck, humming-bird, dove, whip-poor-will and any other 

 bird whose habits are not essentially predatory upon and destructive of the agricul- 

 tural products of man. 



Approved February 24, 1897; in effect May 23, 1897. 



Sec. 12. And it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy or disturb the eggs cf 

 any of the birds protected by this chapter; and any person offending against any of 

 the foregoing provisions of this chapter, shall be fined in any sum not less than two 

 dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, for each offence on conviction in the 

 proper court, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than twenty days, or both 

 at the discretion of the court, and pay the costs of prosecution. (Acts 1875, chap. 

 117; 1882, chap. 89.) 



