88 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 



Penalties: Sec. 25. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 

 article shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 

 dollars and by an additional fine of ten dollars for each bird or part of bird taken or 

 possessed in violation thereof. 

 Approved, June 14, 1901. 



DELAWARE. 

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



Shipment: 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 attempt to 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 State to 

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

 tridge, robin, Avoodcock, 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. 



Penalties: 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 jus- 

 tice 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 j)ay 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 informe''. 



Passed, April 20, 1891. 



Laws of 1893, Vol. XIX, chap. 665, p. 802. 



Sale : 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 of licenses to dealers in said birds be and the same are hereby repealed as far as they 

 relate to the buying of said birds. Any person or persons violating the provisions 

 of this section shall be fined as prescribed in section 5, chapter 507, vol. 17, Laws of 

 Delaware. 



Passed, May 4, 1893. 



Laws of 1901, Vol. , chap. . 



Game birds defined: Sec 1. * * * For the purposes of this Act, the follow- 

 ing only shall be considered game birds: The Anatidfe, commonly known as swans, 

 geese, brant and river and sea ducks: The Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, 

 mud-hens and gallinules: The Limicolse, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, 

 surf -birds, snipe, wood-cock, sandpipers, tatlers and curlews: The Gallinae, com- 

 monly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges and 

 quails: also the reed-bird of the Icterid^e. 



Approved, March 9, 1901. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



[Prohibitions against sale refer only to close seasons. No prohibition against 

 transportation. For full law see pp. 73-75.] 



