An Act for the Better Protection of the Farmers of Pamlico County, ch. 207, §§ 1-2, 1885 N.C. Pub. Laws 382, 382.
"CHAPTER 207.
An act for the better protection of the farmers of Pamlico county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1. That nothing in section two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of The Code shall be so construed as to prevent the farmers in Pamlico county from shooting larks, doves and partridges on their own premises, when the same are doing injury to their crops.
SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times, and ratified this the 4th day of March, A. D. 1885."
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Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session of 1885, Begun and Held in the City of Raleigh, on Wednesday, the Seventh Day of January, A. D. 1885: To Which Are Prefixed a Register of State Officers, Members of the General Assembly, Judiciary, a List of Commissioners of Affidavits, and State Constitution (Raleigh, NC: P. M. Hale, 1885), 382. Chapter 207—An Act for the Better Protection of the Farmers of Pamlico County, §§ 1-2. Ratified March 4, 1885.