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or destroy any blue-birds, swallows, martins, cat- birds, woodpeckers, sparrows, wrens, whip-poor-wills or any other insectivorous birds at any season of the year, under the penalty of two dollars for each bird so taken or destroyed.	Penalty.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law- ful for any person to kill or lake any wild-turkey by means of any blind, trap, snare, net or device what- ever, between the first day of January and the fif-	Not lawful.
teenth day of September in each year, under a pen- alty of five dollars for each and every wild-turkey so killed, taken or destroyed.	Penalty.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law- ful for any person to kill, or take any pheasant be- tween the first day of January and the fifteenth day of August of each and every year, or snare, or in any	Not lawful.
way entrap any pheasant during any season of the year whatsoever, under the penalty 0f five dollars for each and every pheasant so killed, taken or destroyed.	Penalty.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law- ful for any person to kill or destroy any partridge between the first day of January and the first day of	Not lawful.
November, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every partridge so killed, taken or destroyed.	Penalty.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That no person shall, at any time during the year, wilfully destroy the eggs or nests of any such birds as are named in this act, under the penalty of two dollars for each and every offence.	Shall wilfully destroy.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the possession by any person within the county of any of the birds men- tioned in this act, as shot, killed, or any wise destroyed, shall be prima facie evidence to commit under this act.	Evidence to convict.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That any person offend- ing against the provisions of this act, and being con- victed thereof before any justice of the peace in said county, or by the oath or affirmation of one or more witnesses, shall forfeit the fines named in this act, one-half to the use of the school fund of the county, and the other half to the use of the informer, and if	Offending.