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CONNECTICUT. 

 General Statutes 1888, Title XLI, Chap. CLII, pp. 558-559. 



Sec. 2540. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any person from taking alive 

 and keeping any species of game or bird hereinbefore mentioned [gray sqnirrel, 

 quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, sora, and insectivorous birds] for the purposes of 

 domestication, or propagation, if it be done without committing a trespass upon 

 the land of another. 



Sec. 2545. Every person, not the owner or occupant under lease of the lands 

 upon which said birds shall have been taken, nor a member of the family of such 

 owner or occupant who shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or 

 exchange, any partridge, quail, or woodcock which have been taken or killed by 

 traps, snares, nets, or similar devices, shall be fined not more than ten dollars for 

 each bird so sold, or exchanged, or offered or exposed for sale or exchange. 



Sec. 2546. No person shall at any time kill any woodcock, ruffled grouse, or 

 quail, for the purpose of conveying the same beyond the limits of this State; or 

 shall transport, or have in possession with intent to procure the transportation 

 beyond said limits, any of such birds killed within this State. The reception by 

 any person within this State of any such bird or birds for shipment to a point 

 without the State, shall \)q prima facie evidence that said bird or birds were killed 

 within the State, for the purpose of carrying the same beyond its limits. 



Sec. 2547. Any person violating any of the provisions of the preceding section 

 shall be fined not less than seven nor more than fifty dollars. 



DELAWARE. 



Laws of 1891, Vol. XIX, chap. 137, pp. 268-269. 



Sec. 1. (As amended by laws of 1893, chap. 654.) That from and after the 

 passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ship, take, or 

 carry away, or attemptto ship, take, or carry out of this State, any quail, partridge, 

 robin, woodcock, or wild rabbit, dead or alive, for purposes of sale or otherwise. 

 And it shall also be unlawful for any person who is a nonresident of this Stkte to 

 ship, take, cr carry away, or attempt to ship, take, or carry away, any quail, par- 

 tridge, robin, woodcock, Wilson or English snipe, or wild rabbit, dead or alive, 

 from one county to another county in this State, for the purposes of sale or 

 otherwise. 



If any person shall ship, take, or carry away, or attempt to ship, take, or carry 

 away, any birds or animals named in this act out of this State, or from one county 

 to another county in this State, contrary to the provisions of this act, he shall be 

 deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and upon conviction thereof before any 

 justice of the peace in this State shall be fined five dollars for each and every bird 

 or animal so shipped or taken or carried away, or so attempted to be shipped, or 

 taken or carried away contrary to the provisions of this act. and upon failure to 

 pay said fine and the costs of prosecution he shall be committed to the jail of the 

 county in which such offense occurred for the period of thirty days, unless said 

 fine and costs be sooner paid; one half said fine shall be paid into the treasury 

 of the county and the other half to the informer. 



Passed, April 20, 1891. 



Laws of 1893, Vol. XIX, chap. 655, p. 802. 



Sec. 3. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any 

 person or persons within this State at any time to buy, for purposes of profit or 

 sale, any partridge, quail, or pheasant, and all acts or parts of acts authorizing 

 the issuing of licenses to dealers in said birds be and the same are hereby repealed 



