State of New-Jersey.

A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled An act for the preservation of deer and other game, and to prevent trespassing with guns, passed December 21st, 1771.

• {Begin inserted text}1{End inserted text} 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it {Begin inserted text}2{End inserted text} is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That if any person or persons shall kill, {Begin inserted text}3{End inserted text} destroy, hunt or take any doe, buck, fawn or any sort of deer whatsoever, at any other {Begin inserted text}4{End inserted text} time or season except only between the first day of October and the second day of January {Begin inserted text}5{End inserted text} yearly and every year he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty {Begin inserted text}6{End inserted text} dollars for each and every such offence, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, {Begin inserted text}7{End inserted text} in an action of debt, by any person before any justice of the peace of any county of the {Begin inserted text}8{End inserted text} state of New-Jersey, where he or they so offending may be taken, one half of the forfeit {Begin inserted text}9{End inserted text} money shall be for the benefit of the person prosecuting for the same, and the remainder {Begin inserted text}10{End inserted text} paid to the collector of the township wherein the offence shall be committed, for the use of {Begin inserted text}11{End inserted text} the township; and such person or persons so offending as aforesaid, shall over and above {Begin inserted text}12{End inserted text} the penalty above prescribed, forfeit to the use of the person prosecuting, the gun, rifle or {Begin inserted text}13{End inserted text} arms used in killing such deer.

• {Begin inserted text}1{End inserted text} 2. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall hunt for the purpose of killing {Begin inserted text}2{End inserted text} or to destroy or take or kill any moos-fowl, grouse, patridge, quail or rabbit, except {Begin inserted text}3{End inserted text} only from the first day of October, to the first day of February, and every woodcock, except {Begin inserted text}4{End inserted text} only between the fourth day of July, and the first day of February, yearly and every {Begin inserted text}5{End inserted text} year, he or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay for each moos-fowl, grouse, or patridge, {Begin inserted text}6{End inserted text} five dollars, and for each woodcock, rabbit or quail, three dollars for each and every offence, {Begin inserted text}7{End inserted text} to be sued for and recovered in an action of debt with costs of suit, by any person {Begin inserted text}8{End inserted text} who shall sue for the same, in manner aforesaid; and shall moreover forfeit the gun or {Begin inserted text}3{End inserted text} arms wherewith the same was killed; and any person or persons in whose hands or custody {Begin inserted text}10{End inserted text} any moos-fowl, grouse, patridge, quail, woodcock or rabbit shall be found, that {Begin inserted text}11{End inserted text} shall have been killed contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be deemed, taken and {Begin inserted text}12{End inserted text} adjudged to be the killer or destroyer of such game, and liable to the penalties aforesaid; {Begin inserted text}13{End inserted text} and when two or more persons shall go in company for the purpose of killing, and shall

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  {Begin inserted text}14{End inserted text} kill any game or deer, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, each and every {Begin inserted text}15{End inserted text} person shall be answerable individually for the penalties incurred by the whole party or {Begin inserted text}16{End inserted text} company.

• {Begin inserted text}1{End inserted text} 3. And be it enacted, That the fourth and sixth sections of the act to which this is a {Begin inserted text}2{End inserted text} supplement, and so much of the fourteenth section of the same act, as makes it the duty of {Begin inserted text}3{End inserted text} the justices of the general quarter sessions of the peace, to cause the said act to be read {Begin inserted text}4{End inserted text} and given in charge to the grand jury at every quarter sessions of the peace, and also the {Begin inserted text}5{End inserted text} supplement to the said act, passed the 11th day of February, 1818, and also the supplement {Begin inserted text}6{End inserted text} to said act passed on the 21st day of February, in the year 1820, be and the same {Begin inserted text}7{End inserted text} is hereby repealed.

{Begin handwritten}{Omitted text, 1l}
{Omitted text, 1w} of Deer
& other game{End handwritten}

{Begin handwritten}99/30{End handwritten}

New Jersey? That figures.......