ART. 21. ] WASHINGTON COUNTY.
WILD FOWL.

1870, c. 327 enacts as follows:

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347. No person shall trap, shoot, or in any manner
catch, kill or wound any bird or birds, or wild fowl
of any kind or description whatever, in Washington
county, except hawks, owls, wild ducks, wild pigeons,
jack snipe, plover, sand pipers, reed birds, cedar birds

1870, c. 327, s. 1.
Unlawful to
shoot.

and rails; provided, however, that it shall be lawful

Proviso.

to shoot wood cock between the twentieth day of June
and the thirty-first day of December in each year;

Wood cock.

pheasants, bull bats or night hawks and doves, be-
tween the twelfth day of August and the thirty-first

Pheasants, &c.

day of December; wild turkeys between the first day
of November and the first day of the ensuing March,

Turkeys.

and partridges from and after the twentieth day of Oc-
tober, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
until the thirty-first day of December next ensuing,
and between the twentieth day of October and the
thirty-first day of December annually thereafter.

Partridges.

348. Any person or persons violating the preceding
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof, in the circuit court for said county,
shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceed-
ing twenty days, or until payment of said fine and
costs, one-half of said fine to be paid to the county
commissioners of said county, for the use of the public
schools of said county, and the other half to the in-
former.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

Ibid. s. 2.
Penalty.