Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-06-17
TIL e CITIZEN
The New Game Law

The bill which has just received the
Governors approval, will do away with
the nefarious trade of pot-hunters,
snarers, as well as the murderous occu-
patton of the hat bird hunter whose
business has been made possible by the
vanity of lovely women.
Section two deals with the protection
of song and insectiverous birds and pro
vides that persons who desire to collect
birds. their nests and eggs for strictly
scientific purposes shall obtain cert1tl-
cate from the Board of Game Commits
siouers. at a cost of five dollars. The
money derived from these permits,
heretofore issued by the prothonotarles
of the different counties, at cost OF
81. 90 per wear. will be devoted to the
use of the Game Commissioners. From
this source revenue of perhaps 5000 or
$500 annually VIII be obtained
As there have been numerous com
Dlaints in past years about the great de
struction OF nests and eggs of game
birds bv men VINO claim to hold per
mits for collecting for scientific pur
noses. the trainers of this new bill pro
poses to stop this and the law mas been
so framed that the Game Commission
ers cannot. even if they so desired, give
| a hermit which viii enable any person
! TO collect game birds OF their nests auo
| eggs ont of season.
| While some may be disposed 10 OBJ
| ipct TO this clause. it is needless to say
| that II Is . good one. and science vii
inot suffer by its rigid enforcement
| The bill prohibits the sale Of game OF
| all kinds killed in the State. This tea
| fure Is intended to stop a class Of non
residents who live in adjoining States
and who come over the Pennsylvania
| lines and trespass and shoot on the pre-
misses of Pennsylvania Transportation
| companies are prohibited from carrying
game out of the State, but they are no
| interferred with in carrying game XIII
| ed in other States through this State
Game dealers OF Pennsylvania can pur
| chase and sell all the game they Wlsl
| to that has been killed in other States
| Heretofore in consequence of detlclen
| game laws, so far as penalty clause
| were concerned, it has been tount
practically impossible III many cases u
| DO anything with a class of game viola
| tors who had no property and when ar
rested took advantage of the insolven
law and would escape, by this means
punishment for their misdeeds. In
has been corrected by the new bill ant
now if men kill game illegally they VII
be put to Jail if their fines are not PAID
a day for every dollar of fine imposed
The use of ferrets is common IN
good many localities in Pennsylvania
but this practice will have to be stop
ped. as a man now found with ferre
in possession when hunting rabbits VII
be liable to a severe fine.
The trainers of this bill or1g1nall
tried to establish uniform season 10
the taking of all game, but in view @
the fact that there We're so many divers
lopinions among the sportsmen as to tn
wisdom of this feature 1t was abandon
ed. Under the new bill woodcock can
taken in the month of July and froI
lOctober 18th to December 10Th, inclu
lsive; deer in the month OF November
rabbits from November 1st to Decembe
18th, inclusive. The season, so far a
they relate to ducks, reed birds, sn1peS
plover, doves and wild pigeons, are tn
same as under the old laws Pheasants
squirrel, quail and wild turkeys can b
illegally taken from October 10th to DE
cember 18th Mongolian or Englls
lpheasants, which have been introduce
in few of the localities with view Q
naturalization, cannot be killed for
period of five years.
To prevent the professional hunte
and market shooter from slaughterin
great quantities of game in a hmite
time limitation has been placed o
the number of birds, etc, which a gun
ner can kill in a day, as follows: Wood
cock and pheasants, 10; quail, 10; viii
turkeys ?, and no person is allowed t
kill more than two deer in any one sea
son.