THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT, 1887. 
ISLE OF MAN, TO WIT. 
An Act to Prevent the Destruction of Wild Birds. 
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the protection of wild 
birds of the Isle of Man during the breeding season: We there- 
fore, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lieutenant- 
Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the said Isle, do 
humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it 
enacted, by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, 
and Keys, in Tynwald assembled, and by the authority of the same, 
as follows (that is to say) :— 
1, This Act may for all purposes be cited as ‘The Wild Birds short title. 
Protection Act, 1887.’ 
2. The words ‘ wild birds’ shall for all purposes of this Act be Definition 
deemed to mean all wild birds. of terms. 
3. Any person who between the first day of February and the Penalty for 
first day of September in any year after the passing of this tabing eid 
Act shall knowingly or wilfully shoot or attempt to shoot, or shall °"** 
use any boat for the purpose of shooting or causing to be shot, 
any wild bird, or shall use any bird lime, trap, snare, or net, or 
other instrument for the purpose of taking any wild bird, or shall 
expose or offer for sale, or shall have in his control or possession 
after the fifteenth day of February any wild bird recently killed or 
taken, or shall use any net, bird lime, trap, snare, or lantern, for 
the purpose of taking or killing any wild bird at any time, shall, 
on conviction of any such offence before any high-bailiff or justice 
of the peace, in the case of any wild bird which is included in the 
schedule hereunto annexed, forfeit and pay for every such bird, in 
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