Hunting in Many Lands 



consent of his Lordship's Governor and the 

 upper and lower Houses of Assembly, that it 

 should not be lawful that any person (Indians 

 in amity with us excepted), between January 

 first and July last, to kill any deer under the 

 penalty of 400 pounds of tobacco." South 

 Carolina followed In 1 769 with an act prohibit- 

 ing the killing of deer during the same period, 

 "under a penalty of forty shillings proclama- 

 tion money." Both of these acts prohibited 

 night hunting with fire-light, as did also the 

 Statutes of the Mississippi Territory, 



The earliest laws upon this subject in Ken- 

 tucky were passed In 1775 by the Legislature, 

 appropriately holding its sessions under the 

 greenwood trees, and their author was Daniel 

 Boone. 



The earliest law in the State of New York 

 was passed In 1791 (2 Session Laws of 1791, 

 p. 188), and it prohibited the killing of "heath 

 hen, partridge, quail or woodcock" on Long 

 Island, or "In the city and county of New 

 York," under penalty of twenty shillings. 



Laws upon this subject thereafter multiplied 

 in New York, varying In their scope and char- 

 acter with every Legislature. Sometimes the 

 prosecution was left to the county prosecutor; 



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