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appropriations sufficient for its enforcement. Until its future 

 is assured as a constitutional statute, with ample means for its 

 enforcement, it will be premature to publish the law or the 

 regulations in this volume. 



Some progress has been made in prohibiting the use of ultra- 

 destructive or silent guns. New Jersey has forbidden the 

 use of automatic guns and ten States and two Canadian prov- 

 inces have forbidden the use of gun silencers. Proposed 

 legislation for these purposes has been defeated in many 

 States by the agents of the manufacturers. 



INIassachusetts and several other States have established 

 long close seasons for birds that are in danger of extinction, and 

 some such seasons are now made general under the federal law. 

 Long before this volume was written I had used every possible 

 legitimate influence to secure laws in New England requiring 

 the registration of all hunters, and every State but Maine has 

 adopted them as a means of regulating hunting and of securing 

 means for protecting the game and enforcing the law. Maine 

 was able to accomplish much by a system requiring registration 

 of nonresident hunters, which provided her with the means for 

 law enforcement. This system of hunting licenses has pro- 

 duced a revenue for protection, propagation and law enforce- 

 ment in all the New England States. 



No license legislation for alien hunters has been established 

 with a fee high enough to be really prohibitive, but Pennsyl- 

 vania has forbidden shooting by aliens. The law has been 

 upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, and Massa- 

 chusetts has followed the lead of Pennsylvania with a similar 

 prohibitive law, which, however, has some weak points. The 

 only way to prevent the bird-killing alien from shooting is to 

 prohibit it altogether and now that the Supreme Court has 

 sustained the law, other States should follow. New Jersey, 

 North Dakota and West Virginia have done so. 



Connecticut forbade summer shooting of shore birds in 

 1907, and the law has remained on the statute books until this 

 day (1915). Under it the birds have increased considerably 

 within the State. The federal law for the protection of migra- 

 tory birds now prohibits the killing of most shore birds, and 

 so if enforced would do away with most summer shooting. 



