Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-18
ALL MUST PAY a FEE OF $
TO CARRY GUN AFTER
JULY4
NOM RESIDENTS TO BE TAXED
$40 FOR HUNTING PRIVILEGES
No Ono Can Hunt Except on Own Land
After Date Of Now Law - Permits
Must Be Secured From County Audi
tor-Fees to Help enforcement of
Iowa Game Laws.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Dubuque June 1S.-The Iowa Fish
and Game Protective Association, with
headquarters in this city. is preparing
to assist in the enforcement Of the new
hunters license law.
After July 4, 1909, you can't take
your gun and go out to shoot any
kind of game, even If the season be
open, without first securing official
sanction for your support by stepping
up to the county auditors desk and
paying him silver dollar. He will
then issue you a permit that greatly
resembles a marriage license, which
will give you the right to hunt game in
the open season until July 4, 1910. Such
is the effect of law passed by the
Thirty third general assembly which it
Is believed. will effectually settle the
question of game protection by fur
nishing funds to look after and prose-
cute the violators.
1t may not be generally known, but
we have already a hunters license
law on the statute books of the state,
which has been very nearly dead let
ter. The old law, which was enacted
In 1900, applied only to hunters who
were not residents Of the state and 1t
proved practically impossible to en-
force its provisions. The hunter who
was found shooting without q license
always claimed to live in some remote
corner of the state and it was rarely
possible to prove the contrary. The
new law requires license for every
hunter and it will not be so easy to
evade its requirements.
Preference is still given the Iowa
sportsman over the man from other
states, the license fee for non-resi-
dents being fixed at $40, while those
living in Iowa are only taxed 81 for
the same privilege. Hunting by chill
dren is discouraged by provision to
the effect that mo license shall be
granted any person under 10 years Of
age unless the written consent of par
ents or guardian is attached to the APP
plication." The hunter must always
carry his license with him while shoot
ing, inasmuch as section 8 Of the new
law provides that the license Shall not
entitle the person to whom issued, to
hunt, pursue, or kill wild animals,
birds or game in this state without be-
ing prepared at the time of SO doing
to exhibit it for inspection and per-
uniting 1T, on demand, to be examined
by any. person
License May Be Revoked,
If license is changed or altered In
any way, the person making such
change is to be deemed guilty Of for
gerry and subject to ali the penalties
for forgery, while the license SO filtered
may be revoked. It will also be re-
voked if used by any other person than
the one to whom it was first issued,
or If the person holding 1t shall hunt
on enclosed or cultivated lands without
permission Of the owner or tenant. It
is evident that the farmer members OF
the legislature were looking we'll after
the interests of their co-laborers when
this latter provision was inserted. as
farmers in the past have suffered much
annoyance from having their fields run
over and their stock frightened and
Of irresponsible hunters
IL udS UScIl OuE1Vut III llo past 10
prove violations OF the game law. as
it has been necessary to show that the
accused has killed prohibited game.
The law makers avoided such a possi-
bility in respect to this enactment by
providing in section II, that posses
sion of a gun in the fields, or forests Or
on the waters Of the state or upon the
ice Of the same, and failure to dis
play a license when 1t Is demanded by
any person. shall be, expect in the
case Of the owner or tenant, prima
facie evidence Of violation of this
act" The person starting a a tramp
in the woods or going across lots IN
the country will do well to leave his
gun at home unless he has previously
provided himself with a license and
the consent of the land owners whose
property he may traverse.
How Fees Are Applied.
The fees collected by the county
auditor thru whose office the licenses
are procured are RENTED to the state
treasurer and placed to the credit IF a
fund known as "the fish and game pro-
lection fund" Out Of this fund are to
be paid the expenses Of the state game
warden and his deputies in travelling
over the state for the enforcement of
the law and also for gathering and dis
tributing fish in the public waters Of
the state, with other uses that may
contribute to increase the game sup
ply or the efficiency of the fish and
game service.
Nonresident hunters are not per-
mitted to ship more than twenty five
game birds or animals out Of the state
and these must be so shipped as to
be easily inspected, and the hunter
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