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Item Open Access 1874 N.J. Laws 137-38, ch. 525, § 4.(General Publisher, 1874)That no person shall at any time kill any wild duck, brant, or goose with any device or instrument known as a swivel or punt gun, or with any gun other than such guns as are habitually raised at arms [sic] length and fired from the shoulder; or shall use any net, device, instrument, or gun other than such gun as aforesaid with intent to capture or kill any such wild duck or goose, under a penalty of fifty dollars.Item Open Access 1901 N J. Laws 265, ch. 120, § 14.(General Publisher, 1901)It shall be unlawful to hunt with a hound or hounds, or with fire-arms or weapons of any kind, or to carry a gun in the woods or fields or on the waters on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.Item Open Access 1906 N.J. Laws 699-700, ch. 317, § 1.(General Publisher, 1906)It shall be unlawful for three years after the passage of this act for any person to gun for or to take, or attempt to take, kill, injure or destroy, or to have in possession any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn, under penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense; and thereafter it shall be unlawful to take, kill, injure or destroy or to hunt with intent to take, kill, injure or destroy, any wild deer, be the same buck, doe or fawn, excepting on every Wednesday in the month of NovemberItem Open Access 1911 N.J. Laws 185, ch. 128, § 1.(General Publisher, 1911)It shall be unlawful to use any silencer, when hunting for game or fowl, on any gun, rifle or firearm, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense.Item Open Access 1914 N.J. Laws 65, ch. 43, § 1.(General Publisher, 1914)No license to hunt, pursue or kill with a gun or any fire-arm any of the game birds¸ wild animals or fowl of this State, shall be issued to any person under the age of fourteen years, and if any applicant for license shall misrepresent his age he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered as other penalties under the fish and game laws.Item Open Access 1916 N.J. Laws 275-76, ch. 130, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1916)Prohibited any individuals from going into the woods or fields with a firearm while intoxicated or under influence of drugs or alcohol. Punishable by revocation of hunting and fishing license.Item Open Access 1920 N.J. Laws 67, ch. 31, § 9(General Publisher, 1920)Prohibits hunting fowl or other animals with any shotgun or rifle holding more than two cartridges or that may be fired more than twice without reloading. Violators fined twenty dollars.Item Open Access Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1703-1745, at 293, An Act to Prevent the Killing of Deer out of Season, and Against Carrying of Guns and Hunting by Persons not Qualified (vol. 2, passed May 5, 1722)(General Publisher, 1722)That if any Person or Persons shall presume, at any Time after the Publication hereof, to carry any Gun, or Hunt on the Improved or Inclosed Lands in any Plantation, and on other than his own, unless he have Lisence or Permission from the owner of such Lands or Plantation, and shall be thereof Convicted, either upon the View of any Justice of the Peace within this Province, or by the Oath or Affirmation of any one or more Witnesses, before any Justice of the Peace, he shall, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Fifteen Shillings, with Costs attending such Conviction.