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1867. New York. — Act to consolidate the acts relating to game— protecting fawns 



(sec. 2); prohibiting discharge of firearms within a quarter of a mile of nesting 

 grounds or destruction of nests of wild pigeons (sec. 3); protecting eagle and 

 fishhawk (sec. 6); protecting pinnated grouse for 10 years (sec. 7); permitting 

 possession of quail, ruffed grouse, etc., for keeping alive through the winter 

 (sec. 8); and providing fine of $10 for entering to shoot on any grounds sur- 

 rounding a dwelling house (chap. 898); law providing that proof of killing 

 game outside the State is a valid defense for possession or sale in close season. 

 Wisconsin. — Provision requiring game law to be published during the first 

 week in April each year in some newspaper at the county seat of each county 

 and making it the duty of county treasurer to cause such publication to be 

 made (chap. 78, sec. 8). 



1868. New York. — Last great pigeon nesting in New York. "Millions of birds occu- 



pied the timber along Bells run [in a tract about 14 miles long], near Ceres, 

 Allegany County , on the Pennsylvania line. " (Eaton, BirdsNew York, p. 382, 

 1910.) 



West Virginia. — First game law, protecting deer Jan. 15 to July 15, and prohibit- 

 ing running deer with dogs unless deer be wounded (chap. 186). (See Vir- 

 ginia, 1856.) 



Publication of Fur, Fin, and Feather, by Charles Suydam, the first com- 

 plete compilation of the game laws of the United States and Canada. 



1869. Michigan. — Uniform open season for all game, Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. (No. 124). 



Prohibition of use of firearms to destroy wild pigeons within half a mile of 

 nesting or roosting grounds (No. 124, sec. 9). 



Minnesota. — "Act to prohibit the setting of trap or spring guns" (chap. 39). 



New Jersey. — Close term for 3 years on ruffed grouse (chap. 422). 



New York. — Hunting deer with dogs prohibited, close season on deer and moose 

 for 5 years in Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties (sec. 1); swivel or punt 

 guns prohibited 1 (sec. 4); duty of sheriffs, constables, and other police officers 

 to enforce the act (sec. 5); prairie fowl protected 10 years (sec. 7); sailing for 

 wildfowl or shooting them from any vessel propelled by sail or steam pro- 

 hibited in Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties (sec. 12); prohibiting hunting 

 on posted lands and providing regulations for posting (sees. 13 and 14) ; exemp- 

 tion in favor of persons proving that game in possession in close season was 

 imported from abroad, killed in open season, or killed outside the State; 

 quail, grouse, prairie chicken, and venison after Mar. 1 excepted (sec. 25). 

 (Chap. 909.) 



North Carolina. — Act prohibiting fire hunting waterfowl in Carteret, Craven, 

 Hyde, Currituck, Tyrrell, and Onslow Counties. 



Pennsylvania.— Provision prohibiting baiting, building blinds, trapping, or 

 snaring wild turkey, ruffed grouse, quail, or woodcock, but permitting trap- 

 ping of quail Nov. 15 to Jan. 1 "for the sole purpose of preserving them alive 

 over the winter" (Act No. 60, sec. 8). 



West Virginia. — "Act to prevent the destruction of small game," prohibiting 

 the killing of pheasants, ducks, partridges, or rabbits from Feb. 14 to Sept. 15, 

 making it unlawful to "kill or destroy any other birds except crows, ravens, 

 eagles, hawks, owls, jaybirds, woodpecker, and blackbirds," or to catch rab- 

 bits with ferrets or snares at any season (chap. 96). The first law in the 

 United States covering all nongame birds. 



i Use of big guns prohibited in 1866 (chap. 813, sec. 1). 



