Preamble.
Penalty on
Persons killing
Deer,
(Friend Indians
excepted)
between the
1st January,
and last of
July.
Penalty on
Persons in
whose Custody
Deer's
Flesh is found
within the
Time before
limited.
Indians not
to kill for
Sale, &c.
within the
Time aforesaid.
The Act of
1729, ch. 21.
repealed. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this General ASsembly, that
the Species of Deer hath of late Years been very much lessened,
occasioned principally by the Inhabitants shooting, or otherwise
destroying them, during the Time of the Female Deer being with Young;
and which evil Practice, of not put a Stop to, may in few Years entirely
destroy
the Species of Deer, to the great Damage of the good People of this
Province; For Prevention whereof, it is prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. And be it
Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper
and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
it shall not nor
may be lawful for any person or Persons within this Province, (the
Indians in
Amity with us excepted) from the End of this Session of Assembly, to the
last Day of July, this present Year, and in every Year afterwards,
between
the first Day of January, and the last Day of July. to kill
any Deer, under
the Penalty of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every Deer so killed,
to be recovered before a single Magistrate, (as in Cases of small Debts,)
by
the Oath of the Informer, and to be applied, the one Half thereof to the
Use of the Public School of the County where such Offence shall be committed,
the other Half to the Use of the person so informing.
III. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, by and with
the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That any Person, in whose Hands
or Custody
any Deer's Flesh shall be found, that shall appear to have been killed
between
the End of this present Session of Assembly, and the last Day of July
this
present Year, and in every Year afterwards, between the first Day of January,
and the last Day of July, shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to
be
the Killer of such Deer, and liable to the Penalty aforesaid, unless such
Person
make appear before a Magistrate, who it ws that really killed the same,
or from whom such Person or Persons thereof possessed, received the same.
IV. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that the Liberty
given to the Indians aforesaid, shall extend only to the Killing
of Deer for
their private use, and not for Sale; and that it shall not be lawful for
any
Inhabitant within this Province, under the Penalty aforesaid, to be recovered
as aforesaid, for the Uses aforesaid, to purchase any dead Deer, or any
Part
thereof, of any Indian or Indians, within the Time prohibited
by this Act to
kill Deer in.
V. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That an Act of Assembly made at a Session of ASsembly, begun and held
at the City of Annapolis, the Tenth Day of July, Anno Domini
One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Twenty-nine, entitled, An Act for the Preservation
of the
Breed of Wild Deer, be and is hereby repealed, abrogated, and made
null
and void.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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