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Protection For Birds.

Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, August 19, 1853

At the late session of the New York Legislature, an act was passed, forbidding under heavy penalties, the killing of birds in cemeteries, and buying and selling birds killed or taken therein or therefrom. In some of the handsomer cemeteries near New York city, the trees have been stocked with birds of beautiful plumage and sweet song, and the boys trap them and sell them to market hucksters.

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