Massachusetts Audubon Society 



TOWN A SANCTUARY 



Winter Park, Florida, has set a fine example to bird enthusiasts by 

 making the entire town a bird sanctuary. The town is posted with the 

 following ordinances and a card of similar import is sent yearly to all 

 hunters and handed to new arrivals. 



TOWN OF WINTER PARK ORDINANCES 



Prohibiting the Killing of Birds, Wild Game and Alligators, and For- 

 bidding the Discharge of Fire Arms Within the Corporate Limits. 



Article XII, Section 138. Be it ordained by the Town Council of 

 the Town of W^inter Park that no person shall shoot, trap or in any 

 other manner kill any birds, alligators or wild game of any kind within 

 the corporate limits of the Town of Winter Park. Any person violating 

 this ordinance shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars 

 or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both. 



Section 141. Be it further ordained by the Town Council of the 

 Town of Winter Park that no person shall fire off any gun or pistol 

 within the corporate limits of the Town of Winter Park. Any person 

 violating this ordinance shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars, 

 or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both. 

 August 1, 1918 



// you are interested in saving the ivild birds, please report violations 

 of these ordinances to Secretary of Winter Park Bird Club. 



Winter Park has for many years been the home of Dr. William F. 

 Blackman, President of the Florida Audubon Society, and the Society 

 was largely instrumental in the making of the Sanctuary as well as in a 

 great amount of other good work for bird protection in Florida. Con- 

 cerning the Sanctuary W. Scott Way, Secretary of the Society, writes: — 



The entire town of Winter Park (about two miles square) is a bird 

 sanctuary by act of the Town Council. The inclosed card contains the 

 ordinances. There is an additional ordinance under which the Mayor 

 can appoint deputy marshals for the special purpose of enforcing these 

 ordinances, but such officers receive no pay from the town. We have 

 had four or five appointed, one of which, residing in an important locality, 

 is paid a small sum by the local Bird Club. We should have at least 

 one more under pay for partial time. As Secretary of the Bird Club and 

 Manager of the Sanctuary I have personally given a great deal of time 

 to its protection without any pay whatever, Ijeyond the satisfaction of 

 having saved a good deal of wild life. I really have not been in a position 

 financially to do this work but I agreed to shoulder the job and thus far 

 I have done it. 



The sanctuary has now been established two years. The first year 

 we had quite a lot of trouble with the hunters but last year we had very 

 little. Of course the whole territory is posted with signs such as I am 

 sending you under separate cover, and the small cards like the inclosed 

 are distributed freely before each hunting season. Nearly all the prop- 

 erty holders adjoining the town limits wish to be included in the sanctuary 



