2122 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.

circuit court for Worcester county, and shall be entitled to a trial
by jury, whose decision shall be final; but no person shall prevent
said commissioners from opening, widening or straightening any
street after payment, or tender of payment, of damages assessed
as above directed.

BIRDS AND CAME.

1868, ch. 430. 1888, ch. 88.

49. No person shall trap or shoot, or in any manner catch or
kill any partridges in Worcester county, between the first day of
February and the first day of November in each year.

1864, ch. 309.

50. It shall not be lawful for any person to trap or shoot, or
in any manner catch or kill any partridges in said county, at any
season, during the night time.

Ibid.

51. Any person violating either of the two preceding sections,
shall pay a fine of five dollars for each and every offence, to be
recovered before a justice of the peace, one-half of said fine to go-
to the school fund and the other half to the informer.

1882, ch. 273.

52. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to trap or
capture, shoot or otherwise kill or injure, or pursue with such
intent, within the limits of said county, any blue-bird, thrush,
martin, mocking-bird, swallow, oriole, red-bird, cat-bird, sparrow,
whippoorwill, wren, pewit, goldfinch, sapsucker, ground-robin,
hanging-bird or woodpecker, or any song or insectivorous birds,
but nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as
to prevent the killing or capture of crows, blackbirds or birds-
of prey.

Ibid.

53. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly and unne-
cessarily to destroy or disturb the eggs of any of the birds
protected by the preceding section.

Ibid.

54. Any person violating any of the provisions of the two
preceding sections shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any