The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-22
THE STATE GAME LAWS.

Proposed Repeal Of the Section Regulating
the shooting Of Aquatic wild Fowl ON Long
Islnnd-Memoral on Behalf of the People
of suffolk County.
Within the last month there has been much agi.
tatlon on Long Island, and especially In Suffolk
county. in favor OF repeal OF the Game law or
modification OF the law exemptinR a part OF the
island from It's provisions. The following petition
L. being extensively circulated
To TIE HosoRABLr THE LEaIsLAruRE OF THE STATE
The undersgned inhabitants of the town Of - in the
that hel1 opinion k rsre q Il. ns
Contained hap. OF e aw % ws a.:
unjust uncasd for and in conflict with ths interests
That such restrictions while they benefit no one most m
our fellow citizens Who depend for livelihood almost en-.
tIsy upon the products Of our beautiful and prolific bays
lego that heretofore been legmaey ~
be @saa s sos and
thereto shall be exempted from the provision Of said
The following is the section Of the law referred to
in the petition, and that which we have italicized il
the part which the good people OF suffolk county,
or that small portion OF them who agitatng this
question, and who are DESTROYS OF gaining livei-
hood for. few short years BY exterminatng this
specie OF game or driving them from "our beautl
fnl and prolific bays and harbors" ore opposed to:
In the counties Of Kings, Queens and Suffolk the
bis or @ S any Wild
brant wood duck duky duck commonly called black duck
sauaw between the 10th day Of june and The 10Th day q
g N o sash s or "s 70 @ .0 a nj ss s
g o. "a arg dag e he ysag, and no g.rsCn a
vessel ,3o,e by sol Of .sas rom any boat a,i q
Ss BE- pspo,s y ,ps G o% ss o . ~ as oa,ss
q ' yp1 n. S. or o @ Blu, nothing herein
Island sound ANY . violating any Of Ss provision: 81
each offence.
The provisions OF this act have been In force since
the first day OF June OF this year and not In the last
this fan and winter in our BAYS and narbors. The
great enemy OF this species OF game has been the
In the twelve hours between sunset and SUNRISE he
viii XII, wild fowl by propeling MS battery into tho
midst of their roosting ground and IN the remaining
hours of the tweaty-four follow mock from eating
ground TO eating ground until, democrat
ized, they seek less dangerous waters and leave
our bays not return. or course II requires skill
and perseverance IL shoot frem q battery, but 1t Is
the skin OF the midnight assassin In the waters OF
Long Island sound the bays not 80 wei adapted
for this kind OF hunting and consequently the mar
ket huutsmen have located themselves on the
southern side OF the Island.
ments from year to year, the wild fowl have been
gradually disappearing, untl our Legislature took
the matter up and enacted this law, which went into
effect stated above.
one other section seems to be obnoxious to many
OF the inhabitants OF the ISLAND. 1t Is the follow
ing
No person shall kill or pursue with the intent KILL In the
counties Kings vueons suffolk and Richmond, ruled
Commonly Gale quail, at any time two years after
the passage OF thus ae except such Win
under such restrictions contained In tina various
tons OF this Act
The ground OF opposition seems to be that the
scarcity OF quail according TO the ideas Of its oppo
nents. is not account OF too many huntsmen, bus
rather account OF our hard winters, which
more deadly than the sportsmen. IL IS also charged
that the act was passed In the interest OF the
Sportmens Club. We think Long Island instead
OF opposing this club should give them all
honor for the interest which they have taken
IN the subject for to their exertlons We
with quail; among the items they have contracted
for are ZOO live ones which to be delivered
on the island from Florida the coming season.
But even if these reasons 40 not nave weight with
the opponents, they should bear In mind tnat only
season more remains In which this section VIII
be enforced and In oil probability, even II this SEQ
tion was repealed, II would be In operation until
greater part Of the season had passed BY.