The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-09
HUNTERS BECOME
REVENUE Bearers
Residents of Connecticut
Must Take Out
License.
NON-REsIDENTS STUNG
New Law Provides For
Stiff Penalties For
Violation.
NON-REsIDENTS STUNG

VIII make 1t necessary for the hunter
Of birds and quadrupeds, to take out
la license. If the hunter is "bona
fide resident" of the State he will have
to pay 81 as license feet and 10 cents
for a recording fee, while every citizen
not a resident Of the State must pay
$40 plus % cents, and aliens, whether
resident or nonresident, are to pay
SIS and an extra Is cents Violations
of the act will make the violator LA
able to a fine of from 81 to $50 or i'm
prisonment for not exceeding thirty
days, or both. The full text of the new
law follows:
Section 1. No person shall hunt, pur-
sue, take, or kill any bird or quadru-
ped protected by law without having
first obtained a license as hereinafter
provided; provided, that nothing in
this act shall be construed as affecting
the right Of bona fde resident of
this State, Or his lineal descendants, to
hunt without such license on land own
ed by him or on land leased by him
and on which he is actually domiciled,
and which land is used exclusively for
as grtcultural purposes, and not for
club or shooting purposes, nor as af-
fecting in any way the provisions Of
the general statutes relating to tres
pess, nor as authorizing the pursuit,
taking, wounding, or killing, or the
possession Of birds or quadrupeds CON
trary to any laws now in force or
which may hereafter be enacted, nor
shall the possession Of such license
grant or confer any privilege not en-
joyed prior to the passage OF this act
Sec. 2. The clerk of every town, city,
or borough SHALL upon the application
of any person and the payment Of the
license fee and recording fee herein
after provided, issue to such person
license, in the form prescribed and up
on blanks furnished by the commits
sicners on fisheries and game, which
license shall bear the name, age, oc-
cur alton, place of residence, and an
identifying description of the licensee,
and shall authorize the person 50 II
censed to hunt game birds and quad
rupeds during the period when the
same, respectively, may lawfully be
killed, and at no other time, and only
subject ia the restrictions and condi-
| tlons provided by law. Said license
shall be valid for and during the term
Of one year from the date Of issue
thereof, and, no longer, shall not be
transferable, and shall be produced
! for examination upon demand of any
commissioner Of fisheries and game
game warden, game protector, sheriff,
constable, police officer. or other officer
authorized to arrest for crime, or Of
| the owner or Lessee in actual occupancy
of any land upon which such licensed
person may be found Failure or refus-
al TO produce said license upon such
demand shall constitute a violation of
this act
Section g. Every citizen who is bona
such a license a fee of 81 and a record
Ing fee of 10 cents; every citizen not
rsident of this State shall pay a Ii
cense fee Of $40 and a recording fee of
% cnts; every alien whether resident
| or nonresident shall pay a license fee
of SIS and a recording fee of rs cents.
| Sec a. Every town, city, and Dor
ough clerk shall keep q record of all
such licenses issued by him, which rec
81, h0 ~ I. u
officers authorized to make arrests, and
by the State treasurer or his agents,
and the commissioners of fisheries and
game; and such clerk shall, on the
first Monday in every month, pay to
| the State treasurer all money, except
recording fees received by him for such
| Lenses issued during the month preced
| ing. All moneys so received by the
State treasurer shall be set apart as A
fond to be used for the protection ana
| propagation of game, and shall he
| / aid. from time to time, to the COM
lmissioners of fisheries and game In
the manner provided by section 3O9S of
the general statutes. Said commission
shall use all moneys so received for
the protection, preservation, and prop-
aga ton of game in this State, and said
commissioners are hereby authorized
to receive and use said moneys in the
manner and for the purposes hereto
before provided; provided however,
that in case of a failure to convict in
any prosecution for violation of the
laws relating to birds and quadrupeds
or Of this act, the costs of said prose-
cution shall be paid out of the fund
created by this act
Section Amy person who shall vlo-
late any of the provisions of this act
shall be fined not less than 81 nor
more than $50, or imprisoned not more
than thirty days, or both, and the IL
cense of any person who shall be con-
vieted of violation of any law relat-
ing to birds or qaudrupeds, on of any
of the provisions of this act, shall
thereafter be void, and such person
shall not receive a license during the
period of one year from the date of |
such convictions.