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AN ACT 
For the protection of certain birds and game. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That 
it shall be unlawful for any person at any time to catch, kill or injure, or to pursue 
with such intent, on the premises of another, or on the public highways, streets, 
alleys, or public common, any sparrow, robin, blue-bird, martin, thrush, mocking- 
bird, swallow, oriole, red-bird, cat bird, chewing or ground robin, king-bird, 
bob-o-link, yellow-bird, pewee or phoebe, wren, cuckoo, indigo-bird, nut-hatch, 
creeper, yellow-hammer or flicker, warbler or finch ; or in any place to catch, kill 
or injure, or pursue with such intent, any quail or Virginia partridge, between the 
first day of February and the first day of October: Provided, it shall be also 
unlawful for any person, at any time, to enter the enclosure of another for the 
purpose of netting quail or Virginia partridge, without his permission ; or at any 
time after the first day of February and b fore the first day of October, to catch, 
kill or injure, or to pursue with such intent, any dove, wild rabbit or hare, except 
on the premises of the person so killing, injuring or pursuing. 
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, at any time between the first day 
of February and the first day of S ptember, to catch, kill or destroy, or to pursue 
with such intent, any wild turkey, ruffed grouse, or pheasant, pinnated grouse or 
prairie chicken, or any wild deer; or at any time between the first day of Febru- 
ary and the first day of October, to catch, kill or destroy any meadow-lark or 
kill-deer ; or at any time between the first day of February and the fourth day of 
July, to catch, kill or destroy any woodcock ; or at any time between the fifteenth 
day of April and the first day of September, to catch, kill or destroy any wild 
goose, wild duck, teal, or other wild duck ; or to purchase, or to have in his pos- 
session, or expose to sale any of the birds or game mentioned in this act, so caught 
or killed during the season when the catching, killing, injuring or destroying the 
same is hereby prohibited. 
Sec. 3. And it shall also be unlawful for any person, at any time after the 
passage of this act, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), 
or any gun other than the common shoulder gun ; or by the aid or use of any 
punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or 
destroy, or to pursue after with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy, upon any 
of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl 
resort within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wood-duck, teal, canvass-back, 
blue-bill, or other wild duck. 
Sec 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy or disturb the eggs of 
any of the birds protected by this act. 
