The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-04-27
FULL PRIVILEGE GIVEN BY OLD
LAW is TAKEN AWAY BY
NEW STATUTE.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What Is Transporting in the Different
Departments Where the Affairs of
State Government Are Ad-
ministered.

lection CHdn III the past, Out Stlll al
ford sufficient latitude to guarantee
good sport to the thousands of MIN
rods who flock to Montana.
License fees have been raised and
one-third of the funds thus collected
are made available for game propa
cation.
Montana, having become woman
suffrage state, women in the future
must procure a license to hunt or
fish. The old laws allowed girls and
women this privilege free.
All males more than IA years of
age and all females more than IS
must have a license to hunt.
The general resident hunting and
fishing license fee is raised from 81
to $3.50 year. Nonresident license
fees are raised from $50 to $50.
A limited nonresident license, en-
titling the holder to fish and to hunt
feathered game only, will cost SIS.
1t formerly was $40. Nonresident
fishing licenses will be So instead
of 50.
Fish screen wheels will be installed
| in bitches hereafter at the cost of
the state.
Quinat salmon and black bass have
been added to the list of game fish.
The amount of fish that may be taken
in any one day by any one person
is reduced from fifty pounds to TWEEN
ty-five pounds.
1t is a felony to leave any portion
of an elk suitable for food, after the
head or teeth have been removed
Only one deer, instead of two, may be
killed by one person. The deer sea-
son is fixed at from December / to
December Is. The deer season will
be closed until 1922 in the counties
of Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer,
Richland and Dawson.
The closed season on Rocky noun
tain sheep and goat extends from this
year to 1922 throughout the state
Bear is added to the list of animals
which must not be chased with dogs. |
Decision Cuts Clerks Fees.
More naturalization fees are taken |
away from district court clerks as a
result of an opinion rendered State
Examiner H. S. Magraw by Attorney
General S. c. Ford.
He holds that clerks should &C.
count to the county for moneys col
lected for making certified copies of
naturalization papers, and that they
are required to charge a fee of Is
cents folio and so cents for the SEAL
Two years ago Former Attorney
General J. B. Poindexter held that
the clerks had to turn into the coun-
ty one-half of the fees collected in
naturalization proceedings.
In another opinion to Examiner
Magraw, Attorney General Ford holds
that a warehouse receipt duly as
signed and placed as collateral is a
sufficient transfer of the property de-
scribed therein, and that the purchas-
er takes the same title that he would
if he held the property itself
Appointed Red Cross Head.
Miss Margaret Hughes of Helena,
chief of the child's welfare department
Of the state board of health, has re-
ceived word from Washington of her
as chairman of the Mon
lana Red Cross. A number of Mon
ana nurses have enrolled.
Institutions in Good Condition.
The state institutions are in excel
ent condition, says Gov. S. V. Stewart,
Who, with c. T. Stewart, secretary of
tate, and S. C. Ford, attorney-gen-
,ra1, comprising the state board of I
Examiners, has just finished tour of 6
he state inspecting the institutions {
Business is good throughout the +
tate and 1 look for one of the most t
prosperous years we have had for a V
ong while. The prospect for crops is a
xcellent and the farmers have every q
eason to be optimistic" t
Feeding Fish sawdust. v
State Game Warden DeHart has re- @
1rned from trip to Missoula, Raval- q
and Mineral counties, where he in G
estigated complaints of the dumping y
{ sawdust in the St. Regis stream by C
ne Mann Lumber company and the t.
copper & Terrone company of De Bor- t
la. Test cases have been brought a
gainst the companies to stop pollu- g
on of the stream and hearing will t
9 held at an early date. The st. Re-
Is river, which was an excellent trout
,ream, is said to be pretty well d
eaned out by the sawdust. Il
Highway Commission Plans. Il
Although the new highway COM :.
ission will not meet in regular SEES
on until the first Monday in May,
special meeting of the board held :
few days ago resulted in much plan Y
ng for the coming session and the r
lection, subject to the vote in May, W
George r. Metlen, engineer of the -
idge department, and Paul d. Pratt, ~
gineer of the highway department. =
present employees of the old COM 3
Lssion were continued in office until =. -
g meeting in May, to which time the
mmission adjourned. The meeting -
II be held at the capitol. -
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