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The practice IS common in man, places for the public authorities to offer rewards or bounties for the destruction of crows, mockbirds,an rmisc!icv- .ous depredators. The early settlers of the Plymouth colony had different way of doing this thing, as appears from the following extractfrom the history of .Scituate:-

 'sI696, the town did enact that every. householder should kill and bring in six sblack-birds, yearly, between the I2ih and lastof May, on the penalty of for. sfeiting, for the towns use, ,s6d, for ever, bird short of that numher.''

 In 1875, the county court resorted 10 sshe following strong measure Of preeau- fion; " lt IS ordered that every man that comes to meeting on the Lords da,s, bring with him his arm, with at least six charges of powder and shot !; also, that whatsoever shah shoot of a gun, atany game whatsoever, except at an Indian or welf shall forfeit 5s.. sor such default, until further order. a-

 Hist. Scit.

 .sEfff1ere were living at Scituate, in slo3l, two veterans Of the French var. VIZ:

 "Job Cowen, who was at St. Johns in sl759, now aged 90, and Reuben Bates, who was at the second taking Of Louis. burgh in l767, and now aged 95 years. They are intelligent men, and retain thelr faculties in an extraordinary de- gree"