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Item Open Access 1869-70 N.C. Sess. Laws 85, Pub. Laws, ch. 42, § 1(General Publisher, 1870)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 misdemeanorItem Open Access 1879 N.C. Sess. Laws 54-55, ch. 46, §§ 1-4(General Publisher, 1879)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.Item Open Access 1871-72 N.C. Pub. Laws, 115, ch. 68, §§ 1-4(General Publisher, 1872)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 dollarsItem Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 59-60, Pub. Laws, ch. 18, § 1.(General Publisher, 1868)[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.Item Open Access 1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 22, Pub. Laws, ch. 24, § 1.(General Publisher, 1856)[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.Item Open Access John Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order, at 234-35, Hunting, § 3 (1814)(General Publisher, 1784)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.Item Open Access John. A Haywood, Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order, at 199-200, Hunting, § 2 (Vol. 1, 1808)(General Publisher, 1768)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;Item Open Access 1756-1776 N.C. Sess. Laws 168, 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.(General Publisher, 1768)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[.]Item Open Access 1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 69, An Act to Prevent Killing Deer at Unseasonable Times(General Publisher, 1745)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 . . .