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LAWS. 
Open season 
for web-footed 
wild fowl. 
Open season— 
for snipe. 
Reed birds. 
dred feet from marsh or meadow, bar or bank, not 
covered with water, under a penalty of twenty dollars 
for each offense. 
S. It shall he unlawful to capture, kill or injure, or 
have unlawfully in possession after the same has been 
captured, killed or injured, any goose, duck, swan, brant 
or other water wild fowl, excepting only from the first 
day of October to the thirtieth day of April, both dates 
inclusive, in each year, under a penalty of twenty dollars 
for each goose, duck, swan, brant or other water wild 
fowl so captured, killed or injured or had unlawfully in 
possession; and the having in possession of any such 
goose, duck, swan, brant or other water wild fowl during 
the period prohibited in this section shall, in every court 
and place, be deemed prim a facie evidence that the same 
are unlawfully in possession. 
9. It shall be unlawful to capture, kill, injure or have 
in possession any yellow legs, plovers, willets, sand 
pipers, dowitchers or robin snipe, grown backs, curlews, 
turn-stones or calico backs, godwits or marlin, and 
tattlers, or any other birds commonly known as shore 
birds, surf snipe or bay snipe, excepting only from the 
fifteenth day of July to the thirty-first day of December, 
both dates inclusive, of each year, under a penalty of 
twenty dollars for each bird so captured, killed, injured 
or had in possession; and it shall be unlawful to capture, 
kill, injure or have in possession any Wilson or English 
snipe (sometimes called bog snipe or jack snipe), ex¬ 
cepting only during the months of September, October, 
November and December of each year, under a penalty 
of twenty dollars for each Wilson or English snipe so 
captured, killed, injured, or had in possession. 
10. It shall be unlawful to capture, kill, injure or have 
in possession any reed bird, excepting only from the 
first day of September to the thirty-first day of De¬ 
cember, both dates inclusive, of each year, under a 
penalty of twenty dollars for each reed bird so captured, 
killed, injured or had in possession. 
11. It shall lie unlawful to capture, kill, injure or 
Plover. 
