192 PROTECTION* OF BIRDS IN NEWTOX. 



disturbing it. Promising that the offence would not again 

 be repeated by them, they took the six moulting birds 

 which they had killed and left the place. 



How much the promise of such boys can be depended 

 upon, it is impossible to say, for, as it was afterwards proved, 

 this being brought out at the meeting of the chapter, 

 they had been informed of the fact that these birds were 

 under the protection of the Maynard Chapter only a short 

 time before the two shots were fired, their informant beins: 

 a member of the chapter, but to him they paid no atten- 

 tion. 



The speaker then told of other instances where birds 

 had been wantonly killed in numbers by irresponsible boys. 

 He then stated that he thought the time had come when 

 our Newton birds should receive special protection, and sug- 

 gested that the attention of the city government be called 

 to the matter. 



Mr. W. R. Davis, after remarking that he thought the 

 time had come when stringent measures should be taken 

 to protect our birds, made a motion that the facts in the case 

 should be laid before the city government by Mr. Maynard^ 

 the president of the chapter. 



In seconding this motion, Mr. Quincy Pond also de- 

 plored the needless and wanton slaughter of birds, and 

 called attention to the fact that as the discharge of fire 

 arms anywhere within the city limits was already prohib- 

 ited by the city authorities, he thought that the police 

 would be ready to enforce that law should their attention be 

 called to it. Mr. Davis's motion was passed by an unanimous 

 vote. 



Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick then called the attention of 

 the chapter to the disfigurement of certain pieces of wood 

 lands from their being used as "dumps". In some cases, 

 where it was the evident intention of the owner of the 

 land that rubbish be deposited in pits, it was scattered 





