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HUNTERS
IN OHIO
Must Be fuIly Registered
After July |
And Have In Possession
License To huot
The County Clerk viii Supply
The Permits
Each Days Violation Is
Separate 0ffense
The Provision Of New Law
Regarding Hunting

No one will be able to hunt In Ohio
hereafter without taking out hunt
er's license. This license, however,
it should be well understood, gives the
prospective hunter no privilege. He
must still secure the consent of the
property owner to hunt on his prem
ises, and he will be held to obey all
the laws protecting game birds and
animals as before, says the Columbus
Dispatch.
The new law, of which Senator Hass
was the author, will go into effect the
latter part of July, so that 1t will be
In full force when the next open sea.
son comes. The state fish and game
commission has been trying to get a
law of this kind for many years. 1t
has been introduced at every session
OF the legislature for the last decade,
but always defeated heretofore be.
cause Of misapprehension regarding
1t ON the part OF the farmers, who
were made BY the enemies OF the bill
to believe that the hunter with II.
cense might hunt on their lands with
out permit.
Two other states passed practically
the same law last week, and there are
over forty states now with the same
law on their statute books. Ohio has
for some time had foreign hunters
license law on her statute books. and
the fee was the same as that provided
for In the Hass bill, SIS, but II has
produced very little revenue, the max.
law being only about $500 year.
Ohio has no big game to attract hunt
ers from other States as Michigan and
Maine have, In these states the for.
eign hunters license fees run up into
big figures.
The hunters licenses In Ohio will
be issued by the county clerks. They
will be authorized to charge fee of
25 cents for their work, which will be
in addition to the 81 which is the
license fee, The dollar Is to be for.
warded to the fish and game commits.
sion, by which It will be placed In the
state treasury to the credit of the Ash
and game fund. The licenses are not
transferable and 1t IL violation OF
the law to use the license OF another.
II is not "a gun license. and one may
own gun for other uses than hunt.
ing--for instance. farmers keep rifles
to shoot hogs at butchering time, with.
out taking out a license for 1t. It il
only when he goes out TO hunt wild
animals or birds that he will be re.
quired to produce license. One who
Is found hunting without q, license
will be subjected to a fine of from $25
to 5000. There is no Imprisonment
feature. and that was left out with
purpose. Where there Is an imprison.
ment penalty 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 commits.
sion in the propagation OF game birds.
1t Is expected that the commission
will do great deal In the way of the
cultivation of quail under this pro-
vision. II will be possible for the COM
mission to arrange with, the farmers
OF township to set It apart as a
game preserve In which no hunting
ut all Is to be allowed. In considera.
tion OF this enterprise.
by securing the eggs OF quail they
can be artiflciaily hatchsd and under
protection from vermin, that cause
the death OF many quail within q few
weeks after they are Matched, the per-
centage Of the matches that reach ma.
turity can be greatly Increased.
singularly, the new law comes into
effect at the same time as the Hpag-
lin law preventing the killing Of quail
until the fall Of 1915. so that there win
probably be fewer applications for
hunters licenses for the next two
yeass than usual; and yet It Is the