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Start date: 1756Category: search.filters.subject.HUNTING REGULATION

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    Game and Fish Laws of the State of Delaware 16 (1927)
    (1927)
    § 2381A. Sec. 24A: Prohibited the use of any silencer or noise-reducing contrivance on any gun, rifle, or firearm when hunting game or fowl. Violators fined twenty dollars for each offense.
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    1839 Del. Laws 263
    (1893)
    An Act for the Protection of Fish and Game In and on the Waters of the Delaware Bay and River, and The Streams, Tributary Thereto, Within the Limits of this State, ch. 216, § 1: Prohibited non-Delaware citizens from hunting, shooting, or killing any geese, ducks, fowls, birds, or other kind whatever. Violators forfeit the boat, vessel, and/or gun used to violate the act. Violators also shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars for each offense.
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    1893 Del. Rev. Stat. 432
    (1893)
    Prohibited trespassing on lands with a gun and/or a dog for the purpose of shooting birds or game. Violators shall pay a fine of five dollars and shall forfeit the gun until the fine is paid.
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    26 Del. Laws 324 (1911)
    (1911)
    Of Fish, Oysters and Game, § 8: Prohibited the unlawful shooting or killing of any birds or animals protected by laws of the state using any device, swivel, punt gun, or any gun other than shouldered weapons raised at arm's length. Also prohibited hunting with the aid of artificial light or lantern, dog, or dogs equipped with bells or other noise-producing device.
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    1863 Del. Laws 372
    (1863)
    An Act to Amend Chapter 55 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, Entitled "For The Protection Of Fish, Oysters and Game," chap. 328, § 10: Prohibited hunting in the state by anyone who is not a citizen of Delaware. Prohibited the hunting of any fish, wild goose, wild duck, or other wild fowl. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars. Any boat or vessel, apparell, furniture, gun, decoy geese, or decoy ducks shall be forfeited.