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APPENDIX.-E. 
Farther, your memorialists respectfully represent, that there 
is no fitness in any of the days appointed as the expiration of 
closetime for the various species of game—the habits of which 
were not sufficiently understood or investigated at the period 
when the existing laws were passed—and that the various days 
specified for the expiration of closetime for the various species 
of game tend to produce confusion, and render it difficult to 
enforce the provisions of the law, and to bring offenders to 
punishment— 
And, in consideration of these circumstances, your memorial 
ists are convinced that the adoption of one common day, before 
which no species of Upland Game shall be pursued and taken, is 
the only method by which the game of this State can be pre¬ 
served for any considerable period— 
Therefore, your petitioners humbly request, that the exist¬ 
ing laws concerning the killing or taking of Grouse, Partridge, 
Quail, Woodcock, Hare, or Rabbit, within the following coun¬ 
ties, be repealed, and a new law passed, providing that— 
If any person or persons shall presume to kill, destroy, take, 
or pursue with the intent of killing, destroying, or taking, with 
dogs, guns, traps, gins, nets, snares, pitfalls, or any other device 
or contrivance ‘whatsoever, within the counties of Suffolk, 
Queens, Kings, New York, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, 
Dutchess, any of the birds or animals commonly known as 
Grouse, Partridge, Quail, Woodcock, Hare, and Rabbit,—To 
wit:—Tetrao Cupido, Tetrao Umbellus, Perdix Virginianus, 
Scolopax Minor, and Lepus Americanus, as laid down in the 
Natural History of the State of New York, except only be¬ 
tween the fifteenth day of September and the fifteenth day 
of January, yearly, and every year, he, she, or they, so offend¬ 
ing, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each and 
every such offence, to be sued for and recovered, with costs of 
suit, in an action for debt to any person before any Justice of 
Peace of the county wherein such offence shall have been com¬ 
mitted. One half of the forfeit money shall be for the benefit 
of the person prosecuting for the same, and the remainder paid 
