Chapter 3565. To protect birds and their eggs in game and bird preserves
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CHAP. 3565.— An Act To protect birds and their eggs in game and bird preserves. June 28, 1906. [[H. R. 13190](/us/pl/59/13190).] [[Public, No. 314](/us/pl/59/314).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Taking, etc., wild birds or eggs from breeding grounds, unlawful. That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever or take the eggs of such birds on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved as breeding 537 grounds for birds by any law, proclamation, or Executive order, except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Sec. 2. That any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be Penalty. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in any United States court of competent jurisdiction, be lined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court: *Provided*, That the provisions of this Act *Proviso*. Black Hills Reservation excepted. shall not apply to the Black Hills Forest Reservation, in South Dakota.
Approved, June 28, 1906.