Chapter 3932. To prohibit the killing of wild birds and wild animals in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 3932.— An Act To prohibit the killing of wild birds and wild animals in the District of Columbia. June 30, 1906. [[H. R. 13193](/us/bill/59/hr/13193).] [[Public, No. 401](/us/pl/59/401).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Killing birds prohibited.Penalty. That no person shall at any time or at any place in the District of Columbia kill, or attempt to kill, any game bird or tiny other wild bird whatever, except the English sparrow, under a penalty of five dollars or imprisonment in the workhouse for not more than six months, or both, for each bird killed or *Proviso.*Permits.for each attempt as aforesaid: *Provided*, That landowners or tenants may, under special written permit from the superintendent of the Metropolitan police, shoot or kill crows, Cooper hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, and great horned owls found destroying crops or poultry on their premises.
Sec. 2. Killing wild animals without permit prohibited. That no person shall at any time or at any place in the District of Columbia trap, catch, kill, injure, pursue, or attempt to trap, catch, kill, injure, or pursue any squirrel or any chipmunk, or shall shoot or hunt with a gun any rabbit or other wild animal without a special written permit so to do from such officer as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, by regulation or order, from time to Penalty.time charge with that duty, under a penalty of five dollars or 809imprisonment in the workhouse for not more than thirty days, or both, for each squirrel or chipmunk trapped, caught, killed, injured, or pursued, or for each rabbit or other animal killed as aforesaid: *Provided*, That any wild animal may be killed when suffering from *Proviso.*Exception.injury or disease.
Sec. 3. That no person in the District of Columbia shall kill any Killing birds, etc., with firearms prohibited.English sparrow or any wild animal suffering from injury or disease, by means of any gun, air gun, rifle, air rifle, parlor rifle, pistol, revolver, or other firearm, without a special written permit so to do from such official as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, by regulation or order, from time to time charge with that duty, under a Penalty.penalty of five dollars or imprisonment in the workhouse for not more than thirty days, or both, for each sparrow or animal so killed.
Sec. 4. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are Regulations of firearms, etc.hereby authorized and empowered to make and enforce all such usual and reasonable police regulations, in addition to those already made under the Act of January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-sevenVol. 24, p. 365., and the joint resolution approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen Vol. 27, p. 394.hundred and ninety-two, as they may deem necessary for the regulation of firearms, projectiles, explosives, or weapons of any kind in the District of Columbia.
Sec. 5. That no person in the District of Columbia shall at any time Waterfowl.Restriction on hunting.hunt, pursue, or needlessly disturb any wild duck, goose, or other waterfowl, on any of the waters of the District of Columbia, with any boat propelled by any means other than oars, under a penalty of ten Penalty.dollars or imprisonment in the workhouse for not more than thirty days, or both, for each offense. Sec. 6. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith be, and Repeal.the same are hereby, repealed.
But nothing in this Act shall prevent Marsh hunting.the hunting of game birds on the marshes of the Anacostia River, or Eastern Branch, north of the Anacostia bridge, and on the marshes on the Virginia shore of the Potomac River east of the Aqueduct Bridge: *Provided*, That said birds are not hunted within two hundred yards of *Proviso.*Restriction.any bridge or dwelling. Approved, June 30, 1906.