172 THE ENGLISH SPARROW IN AMERICA. 



cents per dozen for all sparrows, known as the English Sparrow, killed ; to be allowed 

 and paid in the manner hereinafter provided. 



Sec. 2. Every person applying for sncli bounty, shall take such sparrow or the 

 head thereof in lots of not less than 25 to the clerk of the township, village or city, 

 within which such sparrow shall have been killed, who shall thereupon decide upon 

 such application, and if satisfied of the correctness of such claim, shall issue a certif- 

 icate stating the amount of bounty such applicant is entitled [to], and deliver the 

 same to such applicant, and shall destroy the heads of such sparrows. 



Sec. 3. Such certificate may be presented by the claimant or his agent, to the city 

 treasurer, or the treasurer of the township in Avhich such sparrows may have been 

 killed, who shall pay the same out of the township fund of said township. 



Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Passed March 30, 1888. 



Oregon. — No law bearing on the question. 



Pennsylvania. — An act to permit the killing at any season of the year of the small 

 bird known as the English Sparrow. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, <fc, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall 

 be lawful, at any season of the year, to kill or in any way destroy the small bird 

 commonly known as the Euglish Sparrow. 



Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 



Approved the 4th day of June, A. D. 1883. 

 Ilhodc Island. — Public laws passed at the January session, 1887, chapter 642. An 

 act in amendment of chapter 94 of the public statutes, " Of Birds." 



It is tm acted by the General Assembly as follows : 



Sec. 1. Section 5 of chapter 94 of the public statutes is hereby amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



"Sec5.AU '" * * Euglish Sparrows * * * maybe killed, taken or destroyed 

 at any time of year." 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



South Carolina. — It shall not be lawful for any person in this State to wantonly 

 shoot, or entrap for the purpose of killing, or in any other manner destroy any bird 

 whose principal food is insects, or take or destroy the eggs or young of any of the 

 species or varieties of birds represented by the several families of bats * * * and 

 all other species and varieties of land birds, whether great or small, of every descrip- 

 tion, regarded as harmless iu their habits, and whose flesh is unfit for food, including 

 the turkey buzzard * * * and any person violating the provisions of this section 

 shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay a fine of ten dollars, which fine, if imposed, 

 shall go one-half to the informer, and the other half thereof to the use of the county 

 iu which the offense was committed: Provided, That no person shall be prevented 

 from protecting any crop of fruit or grain on his own lands from the depredations 

 of any birds herein intended to be protected. (Laws of 1882, section 1695.) 



Tennessee. — [No single act affords general protection to the English Sparrow in Ten- 

 nessee, but there are several sections of the State code which relate to sparrows and 

 other birds in certain counties and groups of counties, of which the following are 

 specimens :] 



Sec. 2223. No person shall hunt, capture, or kill any * * * bird that feeds on in- 

 sects which destroy fruit trees, as the sparrow * * * in Robertson, Davidson, 

 Lincoln, Maury, and Shelby Counties, from the first day of February to the first day 

 of September. * * * 



Sec. 2224. No person shall at any time destroy the nests or eggs of any of said birds 

 in any of the counties named in the last section. 



Sec. 2225. Any person violating sections 2223, 2224 may be prosecuted therefor be- 

 fore any justice of the county ; and upon conviction fined * * * five dollars for 

 every * * * of the above-named birds killed, and the same for every bird's nest 

 robbed and destroyed. * * * (1884.) 



