The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-11
GAME LAWS OF THE STATES
MANY NOVEL FEATURES ARE
FOUND AMONG THEM.
Tbirty-Nine States Made Changes
in Their Game Laws This Year.
What Some of Them Are.

in Their Game Laws This Year.
What Some of Them Are.
In 1905 legislative sessions were
held in Al states and territories, and
in all but two of these changes were
made in the game laws. Including the
local laws of New York and North
Carolina the statutes affecting game
numbered about $50, exclusive of APP
preparation bills. In a resume the
acts of Vermont are included; as the
session of its legislature IN 1904 oc-
Cured in the autumn too late to in
corporate the changes in the game law
bulletin of last year. Seven states
| Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas and Utah-adopted
entire new game laws, and California,
Michigan and South Carolina passed
laws giving complete protection to
non-game birds. Important progress
in protecting game birds was made in
number of states, among which
should be mentioned Montana, Utah
and Wisconsin, which cut off spring
shooting of waterfowl, and California,
Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania and
Utah, which gave protection to shore
birds. More attention than usual was
paid to licenses, and strong tenden-
CIV was noticeable toward local legis-
lation, which in North Carolina was
carried to the extreme of enacting
special laws for number of different
towr ships.
Among the novel features of the leg
islatiOn of the year may be mentioned
the adoption by Montana of a uniform
season for all game, thus greatly sim
plifying the law; the principle adopted
by Oregon and Vermont of fixing GER
tain seasons by days of the week in
stead of the month; the practical pro-
Mbition by Minnesota of placing game
in cold storage; the establishment by
| Wyoming of a large state game pre-
serve Immediately south of the Yellow
stone Park; the adoption by Wyo-
ming of 81 permit for photograph
! ing big game in winter, and the re-
quirement by Wisconsin that each
special deputy warden shall carry an
Identification card bearing his photo
graph, his signature, the seal of the
department and miniature reprOduc-
| tion of his commission.
In some states certain days of the
week constitute additional close sea-
sons throughout the term in which
killing is permitted. Hunting on Sun
day is prohibited in all except four of
the states east of the Mississippi and
in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minneso-
ia, North Dakota, Nebraska and Ok
! lahoma as we'll as in most of the Ca
madam provinces. Mondays consti-
tute a close season for waterfowl in
Ohio, and other week days for water
fowl in several favOrite ducking
grounds in Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. Hunting
is prohibited on election days in Bal
timore, Frederick and Hartford coun-
ties, Maryland. These special excep-
lions, the county laws of Mississippi,
of which no compilation is available,
and the county laws of Alabama, Ma
ryland and North Carolina are a
practically complete resume of the reg
Ulations now in force.
The closed season in Georgia is as
follows: Deer, January l to Septem-
Der l; quail, partridge, pheasant, wild
turkey, March Is to November l.;
dove, snipe, marsh hen, March Is to
September l; woodcOck, wood duck or
summer duck, February | to Septem-
! Der |