Summary
Statutory Text
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tenessee, That whoever, in any place in Sumner, Trousdale and Robertson counties, catches, kills, injures, or pursues with such intent, any quail, partridge, grouse or pheasant for the period of five years from the passage of this act, except as hereinafter provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both; and the grand jury is hereby given inquisitorial powers in such offenses, and the judge of the circuit court of said county shall give this act specially in charge to the grand juries; Provided however, That it shall be lawful for any person to hunt quail or partridges in said counties with a gun, between the first day of November and the first day of January of each year. But it is further provided, that it shall not be lawful to hunt upon the inclosed lands of another with a gun, as above mentioned, until written permission is first obtained from the owner or owners of such inclosed lands.