88 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 
Penalties: Sec. 25. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
article shall Ih' punished hy a line of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty 
dollars and hy an additional fine of ten dollars for each bird or part of bird taken or 
posses«e<l in violation thereof. 
Approval, June 14, 1901. 
DELAWARE. 
Laws of 1891, Vol. XIX, chap. 137, pp. 268-269. 
Shipment: Sec. 1. (As amended by laws of 1893, chap. 054. ) That from and after 
the passaj^e of this act it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to shi}), take, or 
carry away, or attemi)t to ship, take, or carry out of this State, any quail, partridge, 
robin, woodcock, or wild rabl)it, dead or alive, for purposes of sale or otherwise. 
And it shall also be unlawful for any i)erson who is a nonresident of this State to 
ship, take, or carry away, or attempt to ship, take, or carry away, any quail, par- 
tridge, robin, woodcock, Wilson or English snipe, or wild rabbit, dead or alive, 
from one county to another county in this State, for the purposes of sale or 
otherwise. 
Penalties: If any person shall ship, take, or carry away, or attempt to ship, take, 
or carry away, any birds or animals named in this act out of this State, or from one 
county to another county in this State, contrary to the provisions of this act, he shall 
be deemed guilty of a common nuisance, and upon conviction thereof before any jus- 
tice of the peacte in this State shall be fined five dollars for each and every bird or animal 
so shipped or taken or carried away, or so attempted to be shipped, or taken or 
carried away contrary to the provisions of this act, and upon failure to pay said fine 
and the costs of prosecution he shall be committed to the jail of the county in which 
such offense occurred for the period of thirty days, unless said fine and costs be 
sooner paid; one half said fine shall be paid into the treasury of the county and 
the other half to the informe*". 
Passcxl, April 20, 1891. 
Laws of 1893, Vol. XIX, chap. 655, p. 802. 
Sale: Sec. 3. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any 
person or persons within this State at any time to buy, for purpo.ses of profit or sale, 
any partridge, quail, or pheasant, and all acts or parts of acts authorizing the issuing 
of licenses to dealers in said birds l)e and the same are hereby repealed as far as they 
relate to the buying of said birds. Any person or persons violating the provisions 
of this section shall be fined as prescribed in section 5, chapter 507, vol. 17, Laws of 
Dela\var(\ 
Passed, May 4, 1893. 
Laws of 1901, Vol, , chap. . 
Game birds defi.ned: Sec. 1. * * * For the purposes of this Act, the follow- 
ing only shall l)e considered game birds: The Anatidic, commonly known as swans, 
geese, brant and river and sea ducks: The Rallid;e, commonly known as rails, coots, 
mud-hens and gallinules: The Limic<d;e, commonly known as shore birds, plovers, 
surf-birds, snipe, wood-cock, sandpipers, tatlers and curlews: The Gallime, com- 
monly known as wild turkeys, grousi', prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges anil 
(piails: also the reed-bird of the Icterid;e. 
Api)roved, March 9, 1901. 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
[Prohibitions against sale refer only to close seasons. No prohibition against 
tramjixjrtation. For full law see j)p. 73-75.] 
