The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04
STRONG ADDRESSES PROMISED.

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the State.
STRONG ADDRESSES PROMISED.
In addition TO an address TO be de-
liVered by Payne, there VIII be inter
esting addresses by Frank H Mayer
editor Of Western Field; by Walter r.
Welch. who has been in the vanguard
OF game protectionists for some years,
by II. c. Hall of Corte MADEIRA and by
". Scott Way. secretary Of the Cali
fornia Audubon Societies.
One Of the questions which viii be
given careful consideration is that of
licensing the guns owned by sports
men This system has been gaining in
favor during the past few years and
Professor Palmer of the United States
Biological Survey provides interesting
data on the subject The system has
proved the most successful thus far
devised for raising funds for game pro-
lection.
II is shown that in 1905 nearly ten
thousand licenses were issued to non
residents or persons hunting outside
their own States; that in seventeen
States and three provinces in Canada
511,S05 licenses were issued to resi-
dents. AS far as figures are available
the total number of licensed hunters in
the United States and Canada is more
than half a million. They pay for. IL
censes more than $500, 900.
PLAN LICENSE LEGISLATION.
License legislation covers four
classes Of hunters-resident, non-resi-
dent. market hunter and alien. The
resident license was probably first sug-
gested in New York in 1864 but this
statute was repealed before it had an
opportunity to go into effect The first
resident license actually in force seems
to have been in Maryland in 1872, to
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Susquehanna fats by retaining the
business for the benefit of residents
and at the same time raising the reve-
nue. for enforcing the game laws.
The nonresident license was appar-
entity inaugurated first in New Jersey
in 1873 in six Of the southern counties
but il was local in character and wide
ly different from the modern license,
first adopted in the United States in
1895.
The market hunting license appar-
entity had its origin in Arkansas in
1875 In 1903 Pennsylvania extended
its nonresident license law to include
aliens or unnaturalized foreign-b born
residents hunting in that State
The possibility Of making the pro-
lection of game self-sustaining and of
maintaining a warden service from the
income derived from license fees has
been successfully demonstrated Last
year warden service was maintained
without appro- Ration from the State
treasury in nine Of the thirty-sfx
States which have State commissioners
or game wardens in charge of the
work-Idaho, Illinois. Michigan. Mis-
souri,, Montana, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin.
TAX NONRESIDENT GUNMEN.
The right of State officials TO i'm
pose heavier fees upon non-residents
than upon residents, which has often
been questioned, has been upheld in
every instance in which test cases
have been carried to the highr courts.
Nine States-Arizona Colorado, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshfre
Vermont, wisconsin and wyoming
and the provinces of Ontario and Que
bee have adopted the coupon license,
which furnishes a record Of the game
offered for shipment. but not of the
game killed. The latter information is
secured by Manitoba where each
holder of a permit must return an af-
h-avit 10 the Department of AgricuI-
ture showing the number of animals
killed or taken Failure to make such
returns within thirty days after the
close of the season subjects the holder
to a fine and may be ground for re-
fusal of a permit another year.
The full statistical benefits of the IL
cense system can only be obtained
persons hunting. the amount of game
shipped and also the amount of game
killed