The Green Forest tribune., 1906-05-12
FISH AND GAME
 LAWS COMPILED
Secretary of State Ludwig Has Is- sued Pamphlet Giving All Sesctions of Acts Regard
 ing Fish and Game.


 garding the fish and game laws of the state has been so great since the last session of the legis- lature that a pamphlet has been issued by Secretary of State Lud- wig in which all statutes now in force relative to fishing and hunt ing have been compiled, There arc 30sections on the statute books regarding fish and game. Twelve of these sections refer to fishing and penalties for violation, and the others to game and pen aIties for violation.
 One of the provisions in the act passed in 1903 and amended in l 1905 provides that non residents shall not hunt, shoot, or fish or trap at any season of the year except in Spring river, in Sharp and Fulton counties, where non- residents may fish with hook and line. The sections regarding fish prohibit the use of seinea, traps, etc., except in Miller, Lafayette, Stone, Johnson, Jefferson, Lee, Faulkner and Phillips counties; prohibits the use of explosives in all counties of the state, and pro- hibits the construction of fish traps, except in the counties of Conway, Arkansas, Saline, Madi- son, Little River, Yell, Poinsett, Lincoln, Cleveland, Lawrence, Union, Carroll, Grant, Pike, Izard, White, Randolph, Calhoun Bradley, Fulton, Marion, Phillips, Dallas, Baxter, Chicot, Lonoke, Johnson, Ouachita, h. dependence, Sharp, Miller, Hope, Newton, Cleburne, Van Buren. Searcy, Hot Springs, Stone and Clay.
 The sections regarding game provide penalties for killing quail or cartridges from March 1 to September 1; deer or lawn, February 1 to September 1; wild turkeys, May 1 to September 1, and prairie chickens, December l 1 to October 1. Hunting with gun is prohibited except during the daytime on any of the waters of the state. Pens and traps for wild turkeys are prohibited at all times, and quail, prairie chickens and cartridges may be caught in this manner only during the open season. Killing or maiming oi any wild birds other than game birds is prohibited. English sparrows crows, blackbirds, hawks, owls, eagles and other birds of pray are excluded.
 The same section prohibits the sale or exhibition for sale of such game birds or their eggs aud makes transportation companies liable for having such in their pos session. The act prohibits the sale of deer, quail, wild turkeys, prairie chickens or any other kind o1 game except bear, rabbits and squirrels. It also prohibits the shipment from the state of any kind of fish or game except rab- bits, which must be in open crates. Chinese or English pheasants are protected until Junuary 1, 1913, and penalty is attached for killing, maiming ol shipping out of the state dead ol alive, any of these fowls. The act gives railroads and express companies the right to oper and examine packages whicf they may suppose contain, fisf or game for export.
 A specific act passed at the las legislature prohibits the sale O. squirrels killed in Ouachita anc Union counties.
 |, An act of the last legislatur' n prohibits the catching of fish any e where in the state with anything e except hook and line, except il ,. navigable streams, where hoop