The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-05-30
HUNTERS MUST
HAVE LICENSE
To Go Cunning for Game I'm the
State of Ohio Under the Law
Recently Enacted.

No one will be able to hunt in Ohio
hereafter without taking out a hunters
license. This license, however, it should
be we'll understood, gives the prospect
i've hunter no privilege. He must still
secure the consent of the property owner
to hunt on his premises. and he will be
held to obey all the laws protecting game
| birds and animals as before.
The new law will go into effect the
latter part of July, so that it will be in
full force when the next open season
comes. The state fish and game COM
mission has been trying to get a law of
this kind for many years. 1t has been
introduced at every session of the legis-
lature for the last decade, but always de-
| feated heretofore because of a misappre-
hension regarding it on the part of the
| farmers, who were made by the enemies
of the bill to believe that the hunter with
license might hunt on their land with
out permission.
The hunters license in Ohio will be
issued by the county clerks or township
clerks. They will be authorized to
charge fee of rs cents for their work,
which will be in addition to the 81, which
| is the license fee. The dollar is to be
| forwarded to the fish and game commits
| sion, by which it will be placed in the
state treasury to the credit of the fish and
game fund. The licenses are not trans
! ferable and 1t is violation of the law to
use the license of another. It is not a
gun license, and one may own gun for
other uses than huntingdon instance,
farmers keep rifles to shoot hogs at
butchering time, without taking out
licenses for them. 1t is only when he
goes out to hunt wild animals and birds
that he will be required to produce Ii
cense. One who IS found hunting with
out license will be subjected to fine of
from SIS to $780, There is no imprison-
ment feature and that was left out with
purpose.
Where there is an imprisonment pen
atty the accused is entitled to jury trial,
and the fish and game commission did
not want that.
The bill contains & provision to the
effect that one half OF the proceeds of the
hunters license fees shall be used by the
state fish and game commission in the
propagation of game birds. 1t is expected
| that the commission will do a great deal
in the way of the cultivation of quail
under this PROVISION 1t will be possible
farmers of a township to set it apart as
game preserve in which h no hunting at
| all is to be allowed, in consideration of
this enterprise.
By securing the eggs OF quail they can
be artifcia1lv hatched and under protec-
ton from vermin, that cause the death
of many within a few weeks after they
are hatched, and the percentage of the
! taf1 rTf
ly increased.
Singu1arlv, the new law comes into
effect at the same time as the Hoaglin
law preventing the killing of quail until
the fall of 1915, so that there will prob
ably be fewer applications for hunters
licenses for the next two years than usual;
and vet it is the prediction of General
Speaks, the state warden, that even
under the Hoag1in law the hunter $
license law will produce not less than
$50, 900 a year When the closed period
of the Hoaglin law has passed it is his
expectation that the revenue from the
hunters license law will amount we'll up
toward the hundred thousand mark.
This means that the newla will sus-
tain the fish and game commission en-
tirelv. 1t has been getting from the
.
to $50 900 a year The appropriation
bill for this year will carry the usual ap-
preparation for the commission, for it is
felt that the new law is a venture yet and
it would not be safe to make the COM
mission depend on it for support at once.
Each hunter is required by the law
to wear number conspiciously displayed
while he is hunting, the number CORE
spending to the serial number of his
license. In this way the hunter who
violates the law will be subject to iden-
tifcation, just as automobile owners now
are. There is no provision in the law
for furnishing these numbers, but the
state commission is so we'll pleased with
the new law and the prospects for returns
under it that it will probably stand the
costs of having these made and given
free to the hunters with their licencse.