112 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOE 1901. 



dove, wild duck or goose, or the hide, horns, of any wild animals or the plumage of 

 any wild birds (dead or alive) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

 Approved March 28, 1901. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Public Statutes 1901, chap. . 



Shipment: Sec. 31. No person, corporation or common carrier, shall at anytime, 

 within the limits of this state, transport any moose, caribou, elk or fawn, under 

 penalty of a fine of fifty dollars, ($50,) but such person, corporation or common car- 

 rier, may show in defense that such animals came in the regular course of business 

 into their possession for transit through the state from some place without the state. 



Shipping- deer: Sec. 32. No person, corporation or common carrier, shall transport 

 within this state, any deer or any parts thereof except heads for mounting, unless 

 open to view, tagged and plainly labeled with the name of the actual owner, and 

 accompanied by him under the penalty of a fine of fifty dollars, ($50,). 



Sale, deer: Sec. 33. No person shall sell any deer killed in this state, or jDarts 

 thereof, except for consumption as food within the state, and no person shall buy 

 for the purpose of selling the same, sell or give away more than two deer, killed in 

 this state in any one season, under a'^penaltyof one hundred dollars, ($100,) for each 

 offense, except that the Blue Mountain Forest Association may kill deer, elk, and 

 moose within the confines of its game preserve, as established by chapter 258 of the 

 laws of 1895, until January 15 of each year, and may ship thein to points without the 

 state at any time when accompanied by a certificate of the fish and game commission 

 that they were legally killed, and the fish and game commission shall provide rules and 

 regulations as are necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this paragraph 

 without any expense to the state of New Hampshire. 



Game birds defined: Sec. 34. * * * For the purposes of this act the follow^- 

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

 geese, brant, and river and sea ducks; the Rallidse, commonly known as rails, coots, 

 mud-hens, and gallinules; the Limicol^e, commonly known as shore birds, plover, 

 surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers, and curlews; the Gallinje, commonly 

 known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges, and quails. 



Birds for food: Sec. 42. If any person shall between the fifteenth day of December 

 in any year and the fifteenth day of September next following, take, kill, or have in 

 possession any woodcock, ruffed grouse, partridge, quail or Wilson snipe, or shall at 

 any time take, kill, or have in possession any of said birds except for consumption as 

 food within the state, he shall be fined ten dollars, ($10,) for each bird so taken or 

 destroyed or had in possession, or imprisoned sixty days, or both. 



Shipment, Birds: Sec. 46. If any person, corporation or common carrier, or any 

 of their servants or agents, while in their employ, shall have in their possession for 

 transportation out of the state or for transportation or for any other purpose when 

 the same are protected by law, any of the birds mentioned in this act, [quail, par- 

 tridge, ruffed grouse, woodcock, plover, Wilson snipe, sandpiper, yellowlegs, rail, 

 beachbirds, duck (except sheldrake)], such person, corporation or common carrier 

 shall be fined one hundred dollars, ($100,) for each offense, but such person, corpo- 

 ration or common carrier may show in defense that the birds came in the regular 

 course of business lawfully into their possession for transit through the state from 

 some place without the state. 



Sale, Birds: Sec. 47. If any person shall at any time within this state, buy, sell, 

 offer or expose for sale, any woodcock, partridge, or ruffed grouse, he shall for each 

 bird bought and sold offered for sale or had in their possession, be fined five dollars, 

 ($5,) or be imprisoned thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, 



Approved March 20, 1901, 



