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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV 2 
“ Every Man is presumed to know the 
Law. Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises 
from Ignorance of Law." 
NEW YOKE GAME LAWS. 
S. R. J., Ballston Spa., N. F—Will the 
R- N.-Y. publish a copy of the New York 
Game Laws as they are in force at the 
present time ? 
Ans. —To publish a full copy of the Game 
Laws of this State, with all their verbiage, 
would occupy by far too much space. The 
following is a brief but foil synopsis of all 
the laws with amendments down to De¬ 
cember 1, 1888, showing the “ open season,” 
that is, when game may be lawfully killed 
in the Empire State : 
Deer, August 1 to December 1; moose 
and fawns in the spotted coat are protected, 
however. Hounding is prohibited except 
in Queens and Suffolk Counties during the 
first 10 days of October, Indians excepted. 
Crusting of deer prohibited. Ducks, geese 
and brants, September 1 to May 1; in the 
waters of Long Island, October 1 to May 1. 
Night-hunting and the use of artificial 
lights, pivot or swivel guns or nets prohib¬ 
ited. Use of floating batteries, etc., pro¬ 
hibited. Bough houses and decoys must be 
within 20 rods from shore, except in Great 
South Bay west of Smith’s Point, Peconic 
Bay, Shennecock Bay, Lake Ontario, River 
St. Lawrence and Hudson River below 
Albany. Shooting from boats prohibited, 
except on Long Island Sound, Lake On¬ 
tario, and the Hudson River below Nyack. 
Quails, November 1 to January 1. Rab¬ 
bits and hares, November 1 to February 
1. Hunting with ferrets prohibited. 
Woodcocks, August 1 to January 1 ; in 
the counties of Oneida and Delaware, Sep¬ 
tember 1 to January 1. Ruffed grouse and 
prairie chickens, September 1 to January 1. 
Snipes and plovers, July 10 to January 1. 
Rail birds, September 1 to January 1. Net¬ 
ting and snaring grouse and quails pro¬ 
hibited. Squirrels, August 1 to February 1. 
Eagles and insectivorous birds are protected, 
except robins and meadow larks, from Oc¬ 
tober 1 to January 1. Nests protected, ex¬ 
cept those of crows, blackbirds, hawks, 
sparrows and owls. Sunday shooting pro¬ 
hibited. Salmon trout, April 1 to October 
1; in Lake George, May 1 to October 1. 
California trout, September 1 to May 15. 
Black bass, Oswego bass and muskallonge, 
June 1 to January 1, except black bass in 
Dutchess County and Lake Mahopac, July 
1 to January 1; Lake George, July 20 to 
January 1; bass and muskallonge in the 
St. Lawrence, Seneca, and Oswego Rivers, 
Lakes Erie, Ontario and Conesus, and Niag¬ 
ara River above Niagara Falls, May 20 to 
January 1; black bass in Paradox Lake 
and Schroon Lake and River, July 1 to 
January 1. The catching of black and 
striped bass weighing less than half a 
pound is prohibited. 
RIPARIAN RIGHTS. 
S. T. L., New Brunswick, N. J.—A small 
part of a farm which I have lately acquired 
abuts on the Raritan River ; how can I se¬ 
cure the riparian rights, and what are 
they ? 
Ans.—R iparian rights are the rights 
which a land-owner has in the water ad¬ 
joining his premises and in the land under 
that water. If the stream is not navigable 
he is allowed to use the water or the land 
in any way which is not inconsistent with 
the rights of owners whose lands lie above 
or below or opposite him on the same 
water. An Act of March 18, 1851, made it 
lawful for owners of land in New Jersey 
situated along or upon tide-water to build 
docks or wharves upon the shore in front 
of their lands and in any other way to im¬ 
prove the same, and when so built upon or 
improved, to appropriate the same to their 
own use exclusively. They may also build 
beyond the limits of ordinary low water pro¬ 
vided it is done in such a manner as not to 
interfere with the public rights of naviga¬ 
tion, upon a license obtained from the Rip¬ 
arian Commissioners. Where the stream 
is small and does not supply water enough 
to satisfy the natural wants of the different 
proprietors living on it, none of the pro¬ 
prietors can use the water for irrigation or 
manufacturing; but for domestic purposes 
or for watering stock one proprietor will 
be entitled to use all the water if necessary. 
Every person who owns land situated on a 
stream has the following rights : 1. that it 
shall flow naturally through his land ; 2, 
that it shall not be diverted from its accus¬ 
tomed channel by any proprietor whose 
land abuts on it higher up its course; 3, 
that it shall flow off his land through the 
land of his neighbor below in its accustom¬ 
ed place and at its usual level. If any far¬ 
mer shall make any change in the natural 
flow of a stream to the material injury of any 
other owner situated upon it, or by inter¬ 
ference shall prevent the stream from flow¬ 
ing as it was accustomed to flow, he is re¬ 
sponsible for all damages he may occasion. 
Still a diversion of a stream may be made 
by a farmer, if it be returned to its natural 
channel before it leaves his premises. No 
proceedings on the part of the owner of 
land abutting on a stream are necessary to 
acquire these rights. They are inseparably 
annexed to the soil and go with it. 
DEPOSIT ON CONTRACT FOR PURCHASE OF 
FARM. 
S. T. L., Steuhen County, N. Y.—A buys 
a farm of B and pays 8250 down, agreeing 
to pay the remainder at 3 p. m. next day ; 
but he does not get to the appointed place 
with the money until 5.30 p. m.; can B 
decline to fulfill the contract for the sale of 
the property, and are the 8250 forfeited ? 
Ans. —Whether B may legally decline to 
deliver the property to A, and whether the 
8250 are forfeited by A depend upon the 
exact wording of the contract, which is not 
given by our correspondent. It is not un¬ 
common for one person to pay money to 
another for the right to purchase property, 
should he decide to do so, at any time 
before a given day or hour. If that 
was the contract in this case, then A 
has received the value of his payment, 
B having held the property at his disposal 
until the hour agreed upon, and A cannot 
justly claim anything more. If, however, 
A had agreed to purchase the property, and 
B had agreed to sell it to him and taken 
the 8250 as part of the purchase money, 
A’s failure to be on hand with the remainder 
of the money at the appointed time, would 
not, under any ordinary form of contract, 
forfeit his right to have the conveyance 
made to him. When the purchaser pays 
the purchase money, or a part of it, prema¬ 
turely, and the vendor refuses to complete 
the title, the purchaser has in equity a lien 
on the estate. 
MINORS AS HOLDERS OF REAL ESTATE. 
P. S., Bath, N. Y. —Can a minor hold 
real estate in his own name in this State ? 
Ans.—C ertainly, and in every other State 
in the Union. There are hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of minors in this country who are 
the owners of real estate. There is no ob¬ 
jection whatever to such title. The only 
difficulty is in the reconveyance if the 
minor wishes to sell it, as he cannot exe¬ 
cute a deed to give a good title until he at¬ 
tains his majority, and it can be alienated 
before that date only by order of a proper 
court. 
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