The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-25

tighter, greater protection is afforded
made for the propagation Of fish and
game and the restocking of the streams
and forests.
Double License Cost.
Among the principal changes in the
existing laws are the following:
Increase in cost of hunting and fish
ing licenses to So.
Provides fund for destruction of
predatory animals.
Requires all hunters and fishermen
over Is years to secure licenses.
Limite number of fish to be caught
in n day by one person to so.
Reduces open season on elk to 80
days.
Limite hunters to one elk and one
male deer a season.
Places limit Of 20 per day upon wild
ducks.
Provides d closed season for grouse
and prairie chicken, with exception of
five western counties, until Sept. Is,
1923.
Creates continuous game commission
to be appointed by governor.
Fish and game commission to select
game warden and all deputies.
Deputy wardens placed on a prac-
teal civil service basis and barred
from political activities.
Commission given absolute control
Of the wild life of the state and of the
fish and game funds.
Commission authorized to establish
game farm, fish hatcheries and rear
ing ponds.
Commission authorized to close any
Of the streams or parts of the state
against fishing or hunting for any per
iod of time.
Commission required to install and
maintain fish wheels at mouths of irri-
cation bitches.
Had Stormy Course.
These two bills were originally
drafted by the Legislative and law com
mittee Of the Montana State Sports
mems association, of which Attorney
T. N. NARROW, Of Missoula, is chair
man. They were generally looked at
ter during their stormy passage
through the legislature by NJ. S. Car
penter, Of Belgrade, secretary of the
state sportsmen's association. Both
were put in through the house, H. b.
9 by Representative NJ. d. Chatfield Of
Lewis & Clark county, and II. B. 10
by Representative Joseph Brooks Of
Park county.
They We're f~iercely assaulted, evident
ly through a misconception of their APP
%plicatiOn, by the stockmen of Park
county, were amended in many parti-
c~ulars, and H. B. - was printed three
times, but vas finally passed in p%racti-
cally the same form in which it was
introduced.
Although H. B. 10 is now a law, it
having been approved by the governor
and is Immediately effective, no steps
have as yet been taken towards the
appointment of the new fish and game
commission provided therein. Several
names have been suggested, however,
and it is very likely that some of these
at least will be appointed by the gov
ernor at an early date.
II. B. Is provides that the fish and
game commission shall consist Of five
members to be appointed by the gov
ernor without regard to political atfll-
iation, no more than three members to
be from the same political party, two
to ec"va ore year, one for two years,
c." Cor three years and one for four
y1&rs I'D st the expiration Of their
terms thoir successors shall be ap-
pointed for terms of four years each.
The governor is given power to remove
any commissioner for cause or for the
good of the commission and no person
shall be appointed unless he shall be
informed upon and interested in the
subject of wild life. The first mem
bers are to be appointed within 30
days after the approval of the mea-
sure.
Has Wide Powers.
Within 30 days thereafter the com
mission shall meet, organize, select a
chairman and hold quarterly or other
meetings at the call of the chairman.
The commission shall have the SUI
pervision over all of the wild life, fish,
game, game and non-game birds, and
water fowl, and game and fur bearing
animals of the state; shall have the
exclusive power to eXpend for the pro
lection, preservation and propagation
of fish, game and game birds, all funds
acquired for that purpose from appro-
priations, licenses, fines or otherwise;
shall have power to use so much OF
the fish and game fund as necessary
for the construction and operation of
fish hatcheries, game farms, and other
necessary property; shall acquire by
gift. purchase or lease such land as
may be necessary for establishing a
state game farm; shall plan and direct
installation of fish ladders and ways
upon dams and other stream obstruc-
tons at the expense of the owners of
such dams, and shall purchase and