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Rhode Island

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Rhode Island. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial period through statehood to the present.

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Start date: 1770Category: search.filters.subject.HUNTING REGULATION

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    1914 R.I. Pub. Laws 245
    (1914)
    Ch. 1032, § 10: Every person who shall at any time of the year take, kill or destroy any quail or partridge by means of any trap, snare, net or spring, or who shall construct, erect, set, repair, maintain or tend any trap, snare, net or spring, for the purpose of taking, killing or destroying any quail or partridge, who shall shoot any water fowl by means or by use of any battery, swivel, punt, or pivot gun, or who shall take, kill, or pursue with intent to kill any migratory bird or insectivorous bird between sunset and sunrise, shall be fined for each offense twenty dollars.
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    1907 R.I. Pub. Laws 252
    (1907)
    An Act for the Protection of Deer: It shall be unlawful to pursue or shoot deer in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this act.
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    Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 17 (1890)
    (1890)
    Ch. 897, § 6: Every person who shall at any time of year, take, kill or destroy any quail or partridge, by means of any trap, snare, net or spring, or who shall construct, erect, set, repair, maintain or tend any trap, snare, net, or spring for the purpose of taking, killing or destroying any quail or patridge, or who shall shoot any water fowl by means or by the use of any battery, swivel, punt or pivot gun, shall be fined for each offence, twenty dollars. Provided, however, that at such seasons as the taking, killing or destroying of such birds is prohibited by this chapter, any person may snare on his own land.