Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-25
STATES REGULATE A #: TRAFFIC IN GAME,
 AND LIMIT BAGS
Arkansas and Two Other States for First Time Pro
 vide for Licenses.
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 Washington, Sept. 24.-Thrsa inn portant charges have radicall, alfs ct- cd traffi1 in g me in the Mississippi
 valley during the present year, ac- cording to the department If agricul- tura In February ths supreme court of Arkansas held that local law per hitting shipment of game from the ChickasaWba district of Mississippi county, Ark, was unconstitutional. and that the general law prohibiting shipmsn of game was in effect in this county as we'll as in other parts of the state. A little later the legis- lature of Tennessee pEtcaibitcd the sale of all prot cted game taken with in the state, ;hs.reby cutting off the market for ducks killed on Rcolfoot lake. Finally, in June, a new game law was passed in Illinois prohibit ing sale of all game, native or inn ported, excep+ rabbits. For 2A wars or more Illinois has permitted the sale a. certain seasons of gam: i'm ported from ether statas. Illinois new not only prohibits the sale but also the export of all protected game except rabbits. Missouri has stre ngthened it's export law by a pre- vision prohibiting export of quail for any purpose.
 Bag Limits in Arkansas
 A bag-limlt law w'as passed for the first time in Arkansas applicable to deer, bear, turk y, quail, ana ducks. Limits were established in Cornecti- cut on squirrels and waterfowl; in New Hampshire cn quail ruffed grouse, and woodcock; and in Penn- sylvania on bear. Indiana, waich opened the season on prairie chickens for the first time in sav:ral. years, provided a limit of five birjs per day.
 Reductions in limits were made en deer ill Alaska from to 3, in Mon tana from to ?, and in Michigan and Nevada from ? to 1. In the case of birds the more important reductions in dHily bag limits ware made in Illi- ncis on doves from 15 to 10: in Iowa on quail from 9 to 15. and on prairie chickens from 9 to 8; in Min nesota on all birds except ducks, from 15 to 10; in Oklahoma 'cn quail, blower, snipe, and ducks, from ? iso 10. Only few increases were pro- vidsd: In Illinois on shore birds. in Missouri on birds (eXcept turkeys) from 10 to 15, end in Nava5a on quail from i5 to 20. Y.
 Resident Licenses
 Resident licenses were .prcvideay for the first time in three Southern states South Carolina, and Ten n c r1/ nc SfoJ,1ichnI license fc,' deer and "a $1 license for dogs used in huntiu quail; South Carolina license cf S1 for hunting in ta'ei county and s in the sta5e, but 27 counties were exempt from the opera ion of the act and Tenn :ssee a $1 license for the county and $2 TOT th: state. New Mexico and Vermont joined the list Of states which now issue combin.d hunting and fishing licenses. Delaware, following the ex ample of West Virginia in 1913, re- peal;d the resident license provision adopted two years ago, while west Virginia restored the license by is- suing. free licenses to persons hunt ing in the county of residence and requiring "a fee of $3 to hunt else where in the state. Fees for non- resident licenses were reduced in Hi ncis from $15 to $10, in Maine from $25 to $15, and for the special elk resident license in wyoming from $15 to $10. New Hampshire and Seuth Carolina, on the other hand, increas- ed the nonresident fee in each case from $10 to $15, and Manitoba the resident big game license from $2 to ,$4. Exemptions were provided in !. few cases-notably in Illinois, which allows vtera.s of the cival war to hunt without license, and in Ore gon, which issues free licenses to veterans. In the la.t:r state woman are now allowed c'hunt and fish with out license, but in New Mexico simi- lar privileges. arc net extended. North Dakota allowed actual settlers to obtain resident license, even though they have not acquired resi- dence. In Michigan and Minnesota all residents are now required to ob- tain licenses 10 hunt in the county of residence. In North Dakota and Vermont conviction of violating the game laws not only results in for feiture of license, but renders the holder ineligible to oh, ain another fer year, except in Vernon. with out the consent of the. game commits Sioner.