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End date: 1925Category: search.filters.subject.HUNTING REGULATION

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    1925 N.C. Sess. Laws 530
    (1925)
    Pub.-Local Laws, ch. 460, § 4: It shall be unlawful to trap for bear or to run or hunt deer with dogs or to use while hunting any gun having a "Maxim silencer" or any other device thereon that will muffle the report of such gun, nor shall any gun be used that does not produce when discharged the usual and ordinary report.
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    1917 N.C. Sess. Laws 309
    (1917)
    Pub.-Local Laws, ch. 209, § 1: Prohibited killing quail with a gun that shoots over two times before reloading.
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    1903 N.C. Sess. Laws 154
    (1903)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 136, § 3: 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 them on the wing or to shoot them with rifle or shot gun from any boat while sailing at any time.
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    1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 382
    (1885)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 207, §§ 1-2: That nothing in section two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of The Code shall be so construed as to prevent the farmers in Pamlico county from shooting larks, doves and partridges on their own premises, when the same are doing injury to their crops.
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    1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 54-55
    (1879)
    Priv. Laws, Ch. 46, §§ 1-4: That it shall not be lawful for any person in the hunting of wild fowl in Carteret county to use any gun other than can be fired from the shoulder.
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    1869-70 N.C. Sess. Laws 85
    (1870)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 42, § 1: That if any person whatsoever shall hunt or shoot wild fowl in the county of Currituck on the Sabbath day, or hunt them on any day of the week after the hour of sundown or before daylight in the morning with guns or fire, or use any gun other than can be fired from the shoulder, or build or use any blinds, boxes or batteries in any of the waters away from the marshes or shores proper, from and after thirty days after the passage of this act, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
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    1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 59-60
    (1868)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 18, § 1: [I]f any person or persons whomsoever shall be known to hunt in this state on the Sabbath with a dog or dogs, or shall be found off of their premises on the Sabbath, having with him or them a shot-gun, rifle or pistol, he or they shall be subject to indictment; and, upon conviction, shall pay a fine not to exceed fifty dollars at the discretion of the Court, two-thirds of such fine to enure to the benefit of the free public schools in the County of which such convict is a resident, the remainder to the informant.
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    1871-72 N.C. Pub. Laws, 115
    (1872)
    Ch. 68, §§ 1-4: That if any person shall hunt for with gun, or chase with a dog, or shall kill or destroy any deer running wild in the woods, between the fifteenth day of January and the first day of September next thereafter ensuing, unless in an enclosure surrounded by a sufficient fence, at least five feet high, and where such person shall have a lawful right so to do, the person so offending shall pay a penalty of fifty dollars
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    1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 22
    (1856)
    Pub. Laws, ch. 24, § 1: [T]he true intent and meaning of the 95th section of the 34th chapter of the Revised Code was and is hereby declared to be to prevent fire hunting for deer with a gun or guns in the night time, and nothing more.
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    1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 36
    (1729)
    An Additional Act to an Act for Appointing Toll-Books, and for Preventing People from Driving Horses, Cattle, or Hogs to Other Persons' Lands, ch. 5, § 7: Prohibited "slaves" to hunt on any person's land besides their master's with any weapon.
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    1756-1776 N.C. Sess. Laws 168
    (1768)
    An Act To Amend An Act Entitled, "An Additional Act To An Act, Entitled, An Act To Prevent Killing Deer At Unseasonable Times, And For Putting A Stop To Many Abuses Committed By White Persons Under Pretense Of Hunting, ch. 13: Whereas by the before recited act, persons who have no settled habitation, or not tending five thousand corn hills, are prohibited from hunting, under the penalty of five pounds, and forfeiture of his gun[.]
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    1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 69
    (1745)
    An Act to Prevent Killing Deer at Unseasonable Times: That it shall not be lawful for any person to kill or destroy any deer, running wild in the woods or unfenced grounds in this government, by guns, or any other ways or means whatsoever, between the fifteenth day of February, and the fifteenth day of July, yearly, and in each year, after the ratification of the said act; and that any person convicted of the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds, current money . . .
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    John Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina 234-35 (1814)
    (1784)
    Hunting, § 3: If any person or persons shall be discovered hunting in the woods with a gun, in the night time, by fire light, such person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction, by indictment or presentment in any court of record in this state, be fined by such court 20 current money, to be applied to the use of the county wherein the offence was committed until all costs accruing upon the presentment be paid.
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    John. A Haywood, Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina 199-200 (1808)
    (1768)
    Hunting, § 2: From and after the First day of January next, no person whatever (masters excepted) not having a freehold of one hundred acres of land within this province, or tending ten thousand corn hills, at least five feet distance each, shall hunt or kill deer, under the penalty of ten pounds proclamation money for every offence;