An Act to Protect Game and Fish in Transylvania County, ch. 460, §§ 3–4, 1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 529, 529–30 (Edwards & Broughton).
“CHAPTER 460
AN ACT TO PROTECT GAME AND FISH IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact...
… Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or take any female deer or deer without horns at any season of the year: Provided, nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit any person from taking any kind of deer from his, her or their own inclosed parks or reservations. It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gum having a "Maxim silencer" or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not produce when discharged the usual and ordinary report.
Sec 5. That no game bird or game animal shall be taken except during the open season as herein prescribed, and only in day time between half an hour before sunrise and sunset, and only with shotgun not larger than number ten gauge[1] or rifle, and no automatic shotgun or pump gun shall be used in hunting any game bird or game animal...
...Ratified this the 7th day of March, A.D. 1925.”
[1] Spelled “guage” in original source document
State of North Carolina Public–Local and Private Laws: Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session of 1925 Began and Held in the City of Raleigh on Wednesday, the Seventh Day of January, A.D. 1925 (Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1925), 529–30. Chapter 460—An Act to Protect Game and Fish in Transylvania County, §§ 4–5. Ratified March 7, 1925.
Original source document from LLMC: https://discover.llmc.com/LLMC-99917-1925-002.1.33.