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Cardboard Poster 



Protection of Birds 



It is estimated that the destruction in the United States 

 caused by insect pests amounts to from eight to nine hundred 

 million dollars a year. 



I hereby offer Twenty prizes of $10 each and Forty prizes 

 of $5 each, for evidence by which our Massachusetts Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall convict per- 

 sons of violating the laws of Massachusetts by killing any 

 insect-eating bird or taking eggs from its nest. 



Francis H. Rowley, 



President of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, the American Humane Education So- 

 ciety, and the Parent American Band of Mercy 

 45 Milk Street, Boston. 



Cloth Sign used for Posting Property 



Extracts from the Trespass Laws of Massachusetts 



Printed and furnished by the Secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, under the authority granted by Chapter 444, 

 of the Acts of 1904, as amended by Chapter 239, of the Acts 

 of 1914. 



From Revised Laws of Massachusetts, 1902, Chapter 208. 



pulling down walls or fences 



Section 91. Whoever wilfully and without right pulls 

 down or removes any portion of a stone wall or fence which is 

 erected or maintained for the purpose of enclosing land shall 

 be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Dollars. 



CUTTING TIMBER, WOOD, GRAIN, ETC. 



Section 99.* Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys tim- 

 ber or wood standing or growing on the land of another, or 

 carries away any kind of timber or wood cut down or lying 



*As amended by Acts of 1904, Chapter 444. 

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