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LAWS. 
Penalty. 
Trapping 
rabbits. 
Proviso. 
Proviso. 
Proviso. 
Unlawful to 
have or sell 
certain game. 
Game birds 
enumerated. 
Exceptions. 
times as may be permitted in this act, under a penalty of 
twenty dollars for each offense. 
2. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to pre¬ 
vent farmers and fruit growers from trapping rabbits in 
box traps during the entire year; provided, however, 
that such trapping shall be done on property owned or 
leased for the raising of fruit, vegetables or other prod¬ 
ucts by the person so trapping; and provided, that the 
person so trapping shall first have made an affidavit 
before a justice of the peace that rabbits have injured 
fruit, vegetables or other products on his or her premises, 
and shall have immediately sent the same to the 
president of the fish and game commission, who, upon 
the receipt of the said affidavit, shall issue to said person 
a permit to so trap; and provided further, that no person 
or persons shall be permitted to barter or sell any rabbits 
so trapped. 
3. No person shall, within the limits of this state, kill 
or catch, or have in his or her possession, living or dead, 
any wild bird, other than a game bird, or purchase, offer 
or expose for sale any such wild bird after it has been 
killed or caught; and no part of the plumage, skin or 
body of any bird protected by this section shall be sold 
or had in possession for sale; for the purpose of this 
section, the following shall be considered game birds: 
the anatidse, commonly known.' as swans, geese, brant and 
river and sea ducks; the rallidas, commonly' known as 
rails, gallinules, coots and mud-hens; the limicoke, com¬ 
monly known as shore birds, surf snipe or bay snipe, 
among them being yellow legs, plovers, willets, sand 
pipers, dowitcliers or robin snipe, brown backs, curlews, 
turn-stones or calico backs, godwits or marlin, tattlers 
and woodcock; the galling;, commonly known as wild 
turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges, 
and quails; and the species of icteridse, commonly 
known as reed birds; the English or European 
house sparrow (passer domesticus), blackbirds, crows, 
Cooper’s hawk, Goshawk, sharp-skinned hawk, duck 
hawk and great-horned owl are, however, not included 
among the birds protected by this section; any person 
