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1909 S.D. Sess. Laws 450, An Act for the Preservation, Propagation, Protection, Taking, Use and Transportation of Game and Fish and Establishing the Office of State Game Warden and Defining His Duties, ch. 240, §§ 21-22.

| | 1909

§ 21. No person shall at any time catch, take or kill any of the birds or animals mentioned in this chapter in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held to the shoulder of the person discharging the same. § 22. No person shall at...

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1909 W.Va. Acts 479-80, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections . . . Relating to the Protection and Preservation of Certain Animals, Birds, and Fishes and of Forests and Streams, ch. 60, § 19.

| | 1909

The carrying of any uncased gun in any of the fields or woods of this state, by any person not having the lawful right to hunt, pursue or kill game, birds or animals in such fields or woods shall, as to such person, other than the bona fide owner, or o...

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1908 Vermont Session Laws 132, § 1.

| | 1908

No person shall at any time hunt, shoot, pursue, take or kill any of the wild animals, wild fowl or birds of this state, nor use a gun for hunting the same, without having first procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided, and then only during ...

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1907 R.I. Pub. Laws 66, An Act for the Protection of Deer

| | 1907

§ 1. It shall be unlawful to pursue or shoot deer in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this act. § 2. Any person owning or occupying any farm or orchard and any person in his employ may, while on his own premises or the p...

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1906 N.J. Laws 699-700, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for the Protection of Certain Kinds of Birds, Game and Fish, to Regulate Their Method of Capture, and Provide Open and Close Seasons for Such Capture and Possession,” ch. 317, § 1.

| | 1906

It shall be unlawful for three years after the passage of this act for any person to gun for or to take, or attempt to take, kill, injure or destroy, or to have in possession any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn, under penalty of one hundred do...

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1905 Pa. Laws 253

| | 1905

No person shall make use of what is known as buckshot in hunting deer or fawn within this Commonwealth, or shall kill or wound, or attmept to kill or wound, any deer or fawn within this Commonwealth, or shall kill or wound, or attempt to kill or wound,...

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1905 Utah Laws 197, An Act for the Protection of Fish, Game, and Birds . . . , ch. 118, § 30.

, , | | 1905

It shall be unlawful for any non-resident person or for resident who is not a citizen of the United States to kill any game, animals, birds or fish in this State, without first having procured the license to do so hereinafter provided for. Any non-resi...

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1905 Mo. Laws 161, An Act Relating to the Preservation, Propagation and Protection of Game Animals, Birds and Fish, Creating the Office of Game and Fish Warden, Creating a Game Protection Fund, and Appropriating Money Therefrom, § 11.

| | 1905

Any person who, in the pursuit of any wild duck, goose, brant, or other aquatic bird, upon the waters of this state, shall use any sneak boat, or any sail boat, or boat propelled by steam, naptha, electric or other engine or machinery, or any battery, ...

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1905 N.H. Laws 515, An Act to Prohibit the Use of Swivel and Punt Guns, ch. 98, § 1.

| | 1905

IF any person shall, at any time, within this state, hunt, pursue, shoot at, or kill any game bird, as defined by section 34 of chapter 79 of the laws of 1901, with any punt gun swivel gun, or other gun not fired from the shoulder, or of larger bore th...

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1904 Ky. Acts 150-51, An Act Creating the Offices of Fish and Game Wardens and Defining the Powers and Duties and Fixing the Compensation of such Officers, and for the Further Protection and Preservation of Fish, Game and Birds in the State of Kentucky, ch. 68, § 3.

| | 1904

Game wardens . . . may arrest on sight and without warrant any person detected by them in the act of violating any such law; they shall have the same right as sheriffs to require aid in executing any process or in arresting without process any person f...

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1903 Tenn. Pub. Acts 376-77, A Bill for an Act to Be Entitled An Act for the Protection of Game in the State of Tennessee . . . , ch. 169, § 6.

| | 1903

[N]o person or persons shall . . . for the purpose of taking or destroying birds or animals not protected by this Act, use any swivel or punt gun, or gun other than a gun held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, and of the gauge not lar...

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1903 Pa. Laws 178, An Act Requiring non-resident hunters, and unnaturalized, foreign born, resident-hunters, to procure a license before hunting in the Commonwealth … §§1 and 2

, , | | 1903

§ 1. . . . every non-resident and every unnaturalized foreign-born resident of this Commonwealth shall be required to take out a license from the treasurer of the county in which he proposes to hunt. . . § 2. Possession of a gun, in the field...

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1903 Va. Acts 331-32, An Act . . . to Prevent the Extermination of Partridges (or Quails) in the State of Virginia, ch. 227, §2070a.

| | 1903

. . . It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot at, kill or capture any wild water fowl or wild turkey at any time during the night in this State. . . or to shoot at any game on land or water in this State with a gun larger than an eight bore. . . T...

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1903 N.C. Sess. Laws 154, An Act Supplemental to an Act. . . Relating to Hunting and Fishing in Currituck County, ch. 136, § 3.

| | 1903

And it shall be unlawful for any persons or persons, either before or after they have put out decoys in the waters of Currituck Sound, to sail or row or propel a boat in any way after wild fowls in the waters of said sound for the purpose of forcing th...

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1903 Minn. Laws 588-89, An Act for the Preservation, Propogation, Protection, Taking, Use and Transportation of Fish and Game, ch. 336, § 12.

| | 1903

No person shall at any time set, lay, prepare or have in possession any trap, snare, artificial light, net, bird lime, swivel gun or set gun or any contrivance whatever for the purpose of catching, taking or killing any of the birds in this act mention...

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1902 N.J. Laws 780, An Act to Require Non-residents to Secure Licenses before Hunting or Gunning within the State of New Jersey and Providing Penalties for Violation of Its Provisions, ch. 263, § 1.

, , | | 1902

Every non-resident of this state shall be required to take out a license before he shall begin hunting or gunning in this state, which license the several county clerks of this state, and each of them, are hereby authorized and required to issue upon t...

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1901 Neb. Laws 372, An Act, to Protect Fish, and Game . . . within the State of Nebraska, and to Provide Penalties for the Violation Thereof . . . , Art. II, ch. 36, § 4, pt. 8.

| | 1901

No game shall be pursued, taken, wounded or killed in the night, nor with a steel or hard pointed bullet, nor with any weapon other than an ordinary shoulder gun or pistol, nor shall any fish be taken or killed except in the ordinary manner with a line...

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1901 N.D. Laws 133-34, An Act . . . Relating to Game and Fish, ch. 106, § 1, pts. 5, 6.

| | 1901

Every person who either . . . 5. Shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds permitted to be killed by this act at any time in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held ot the shoulder by a person discharging the same; or 6. Shall at ...

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1901 Cal. Stat. Laws 476, § 179.

| | 1901

§ 179. Every person who uses a shotgun of a larger caliber than that commonly known and designated as a number ten gauge, is guilty of a misdemeanor. . . possession of such gun in the field, marsh . . . is prima facie evidence of its illegal use.<...

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1901 Or. Laws 221, An Act to Provide for the Preservation and Protection of Forests, Game, Wild Fowls, Song Birds, Trout, and Other Game Fish . . . , § 11.

| | 1901

It shall be unlawful to use any battery, swivel or pivot gun, or other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either form the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia River, or any lake or river in the State ...

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