Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-08-27
GAME WARDEN ISSUES AD-
DRESS TO LAND OWNERS

Col. J, II. Acklen, Game Warden Of
tho State, has issued the following ad-
dress to the farmers and landowners of
Tennessee 1t is as follows:
The general game law passed by the
last General Assembly is not an expcr-
iment in other states, but it is now on
trial for the first time in Tennessee.
The law was drafted not only to protect
your property and game, but to enable
you to derive considerable revenue from
shooting privileges, which you may
grant to sportsmen If you choose,
The law establishes game warden
system for every county of the state,
without which, experience has shown,
game law is dead letter" The
beneficial results OF this present game
law rests almost exclusively in your
hands. Unless you actively cooperate
with the game wardens of your re-
spective counties the objects sought to
be obtained, viz: protection of property
and game-must necessarily fail.
You cannot in reason expect the coun-
ty game wardens and their deputies to
give their time and labor to the protec-
tion of your property from trespass and
the game thereon from destruction,
without some compensat This COM
pensation can come to these wardens
only in two ways,
First, from fines imposed upon viola
tors of the law These offenders they
cannot successfully prosecute unless
you give the required information and
evidence, and as violations of the law
will soon become by reason of its rigid
enforcement very rare, compensation
from this source will soon be reduced to
practically nothing. Second, from di-
vision between you and these wardens
of the amounts realized from shooting
privileges accorded by you on your
property.
MUST HAVE PERMITS.
Under existing law no person has the
right to shoot, or enter upon your prop.
erty for the purpose of shooting, with
out your written permission You are
now requested to authorize the county
game warden to grant to sportsmen the
written permission required under the
law to shoot on your premises Yol
naturally ask why you should do this
The answer is for your own protection,
and if you wish it, also for your profit
This however requires some eXplana
| tion. This department will furnish yor
free of charge paper, at the top o
which is printed authority to the county
warden to grant written permit tc
sportsmen to shoot on your premises or
such days only as may be indicated OF
said paper by you. Below this is print
ed the open or shooting season Nov.
| to March u in calendar form, each date
however, having line for name. You
can then exercise your good pleasure as
to what days during the season you viii
permit sportsmen to shoot, reserVing tc
yourself all the remainder, or you car
reserve to yourself the whole season i
you wish, which is in effect sta temen
that you wish no shooting on your prop
erty during that season. Now, wher
you have thus placed the shooting priv
ileges on your property in the hands o
the game warden, with such reserva
tions as you wish, you have accomplish
ed two things first you, are entirely
freed from opportunities of acquaint
ances for permission to shoot on YOU
premises, because you can refer all ap
plicants to the game warden, and, sec
ond you can receive through this game
warden a compensation for the right tt
shoot on your property on such days al
YOU have indicated, and which h
will charge sportsmen and for whicl
perhaps, you would not care TO directl,