The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-23
GIVES INSTRUCTIONS
TO GAME WARDENS.
Season for Doves Opens on
August l
WALLACE'S LETTER
Calls Attention to Various Provisions
of the State Laws for Protec-
tion of Fish and
Game

| Montgomery, July 22.-(Special )-Statt
Came and Fish Commissioner John H
Wallace. Jr.. has addressed a communi-
cation Of special instructions to all Of
the game and fish wardens of the state
directing their attention to the fact that
| the season on doves opens on August /
and calling on them TO suppress all in
| fractions of the game and fish laws oe-
casioned by persons shooting doves Out
of season or batting them, also hunting
without licenses and exceeding the bag
| limit of Is birds for each day Mr.. Wal
lace terms dove batting as a relic OF
barbarism and a pernicious practice that
should be suppressed.
| The special Instructions to the game
and fish wardens of the various coun-
| ties of Alabama, issued by the commits
sioner, are as follows:
THE special attention of all game and
| fish wardens is directed to the fact that
the season on doves opens on August l.
All officers charged with the enforce
ment of the provisions of the statutes for
the protection of birds and game should
exercise especial vigilance, during the
closing days of July, in order to appre-
bend any person who may attempt &c
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this can be done legally.
"Wardens are urged TO demonstrate
particular activity in bringing to the bal
of justice those who may violate the law
by resorting to the pernicious practice
of batting fields for doves This custom
| is clearly a relic of barbarism, for the In
! nocent birds of a large territory are col
| lected within the radius of small area
through the medium of food spread to at
cid ttDla
an army of men assembled to participate
| in a carnival of determination of one oil
| the most valuable species of the wild life
| of Alabama. BY resorting to the practice
| of batting doves. few enjoy what they
| term sport. to the detriment of the peo-
| Pile generally. At all hazards suppress
this nefarious practice which has flour
ished in the past in many counties in
this state.
See TO it that no one hunts or pur-
sues any of the game birds or animals
of this state without first having taken
out a hunters license as required by
law; that no game is transported on any
of the common carriers of the state by
any person not having in his possession
hunters license, duly issued to him;
that no squirrels are shot during the
| close season, which does not expire until
| October /; that the bag limit of 20 birds
| that no person hunts on the lands of an
other without written permission of the
owner or agent thereof; that the shoot
| ing of all game. during the close season
| on same be suppressed. and that no game
or birds are sold.
| See to it that all persons taking fish
| by the use of seines. trammel nets oil
| gill nets be prosecuted. that any person
fishing without writer permission in prl
vate ponds or lakes, wholly on the lands
| OF another, be brought To justice: that thu
murderous dynamiter of fish be made Il
| pay the penalty of his crime for employ
| ing in the waters of this state this pow.
| erful death dealing explosive which
| works havoc against the rights of the
people, at large, in the fish of our streams
| and lakes.
Communicate at once with your depu-
ties urging them to exercise the same
! diligence In apprehendng violators oil
| the game and fish laws. that | have inn
| pressed upon you to demonstrate; take
occasion to inquire OF all law abiding cit
| liens If any infractions OF our conserNa-
ton statutes have come to their notice
and investigate fully and thoroughly each
and every offense to which your attention
| is called. Swear out warrants immedi
ately before a justice of the peace If vol
| are convinced that the game and fish
laws have been violated. when the evi
dence points to some particular indi
vidual as the guilty party, and do no
wait for the grand jury to meet to in
dict the accused
1 1.-THE natural resources of a state d.
not belong to individuals. but to tn
race and this matchless asset should b.
protected from the rehabilitation of thos
who seek to destroy merely for the pur
pose of satisfying their perverted an
rapacious appetite TO kill"