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NEW JERSEY. 

 Laws of 1901, chap. 76, pp. 176-177. 



Game birds defined: Sec. 1. * * * For the purpose 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 rallida3, commonly known as rails, coots, 

 mud-hens and gallinules; the limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, 

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

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

 doves, ^ and the species of icterid^, commonly known as reed birds. 



Approved March 20, 1901. 



Laws of 1901, chap. 120, pp. 262-268. 



Trapping- rabbits: [Sec] 3. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to pre- 

 vent farmers and fruit growers from trapping rabbits in box-traps during the months 

 of November, December, January, February and March; provided, however, that such 

 trapping shall be done on property owned or leased for the raising of fruit by the per- 

 son so trapping; provided, that the person so trapping shall first have made an affi- 

 davit before a justice of the peace that rabbits have injured fruit trees, such fruit 

 trees being on the property of the person so trapping, and shall have notified the 

 nearest fish and game warden of his intention to so trap; and provided further, that 

 no person shall be permitted to barter or sell any rabbits so trapped. 



Sale: [Sec] 11. It shall be unlawful to have in possession, sell or offer for sale, 

 any hare (sometimes called rabbit), quail (sometimes called partridge), ruffed 

 grouse (sometimes called partridge or pheasant), ring-necked pheasant, English 

 pheasant, woodcock, pinnated grouse (sometimes called prairie chicken), English or 

 Wilson snipe, reed bird, rail bird, marsh hen, grass or upland plover, squirrel, duck, 

 or any of the game birds or game animals enumerated in this act, after the same has 

 been caught or trapped by means of any snare, snood, net, trap or device of any 

 description whatsoever, or to set any snare, snood, net, trap or device for catching or 

 trapping any such game bird or animal, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each 

 such bird or other animal so had in possession, sold or exposed for sale, or for any 

 trap or snare so set. 



Sale seasons: [Sec] 13. Whenever by this act the possession of any kind of 

 game i§ prohibited after a certain specified date or within certain specified periods of 

 time, all sales of dealers in game for a period of thirty days after the expiration of 

 such fixed period or specified date shall prima facie be deemed lawful, and the pen- 

 alties herein imposed for the possession of such game shall not apply to any dealer in 

 or the purchaser of any such game, within the extended period, unless it shall be 

 shown that such dealer or purchaser had knowledge that such game had been unlaw- 

 fully killed, captured or taken; nothing in this section, however, shall be construed 

 to permit the possession, sale or purchase of game killed or taken in this state in vio- 

 lation of any of the provisions of this act. 



Propag-ation: [Sec] 15. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent 

 associations or individuals from bringing into this state any birds or other animals 

 for the purpose of propagation, or from keeping such animals until a seasonable time 

 for their release. 



Export: [Sec] 26. It shall be unlawful to remove or to attempt to remove from 

 this state any quail, ruffed grouse, pinnated grouse, woodcock, hare, squirrel, English 

 pheasant or ring-necked pheasant; provided, however, that this section shall not apply 

 to common carriers carrying from beyond the confines of this state in unbroken 

 packages to some point beyond the confines of this state, such quail, ruffed grouse, 



^ Doves belong to the columbse, not the gallinse. 

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