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game-laws ; and he was especially severe in his com- 

 ments upon the "foreigners" who came into the 

 country merely to hunt, killing off the wild beasts, 

 and taking their skins and furs away, for the benefit 

 of persons not concerned in the settlement. This 

 last point is curious as showing how instantly and 

 naturally the colonists succeeded not only to the 

 lands of the Indians, but also to their habits of 

 thought; regarding intrusion by outsiders upon 

 their hunting-grounds with the same jealous dislike 

 so often shown by their red-skinned predecessors. 



Henderson also outlined some of the laws he 

 thought it advisable to enact, and the Legislature 

 followed his advice. They provided for courts of 

 law, for regulating the militia, for punishing crim- 

 inals, fixing sheriffs' and clerks' fees, and issuing 

 writs of attachment. 23 One of the members was a 

 clergyman : owing to him a law was passed forbid- 

 ding profane swearing or Sabbath-breaking; a puri- 

 tanic touch which showed the mountain rather than 

 the seaboard origin of the men settling Kentucky. 

 The three remaining laws the Legislature enacted 

 were much more characteristic, and were all intro- 

 duced by the two Boones for Squire Boone was 

 still the companion of his brother. As was fit and 

 proper, it fell to the lot of the greatest of back- 

 woods hunters to propose a scheme for game pro- 

 tection, which the Legislature immediately adopted ; 

 and his was likewise the "act for preserving the 



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