RESOLUTIONS 



BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB 



Extract from minutes of meeting of executive commit- 

 tee of Boone and Crockett Club, held October 27, 1913 : 



The Boone and Crockett Club deeply regrets the death of its 

 associate member, Major John F. Lacey, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



Major Lacey 's life was a busy one. A soldier in the Civil 

 War, a lawyer in active practice, an author of legal works, and 

 later prom i nent in politics, he represented his district in Con- 

 gress for eight sessions. 



It is as an active worker in behalf of game conservation that 

 Major Lacey is most widely known and in the death of the 

 ''Father of Federal Game Legislation" those interested in game 

 protection in America feel that they have lost a leading soldier 

 from their ranks. 



Of Major Lacey 's many services to the American public, two 

 which stand out preeminent were the introduction and carrying 

 through Congress of the act of May 7, 1894, for the protection 

 of birds and animals in the Yellowstone National Park, and the 

 act of 1900, which regulates interstate commerce in game. 



Congress had established the Yellowstone Park twenty years 

 before, had considered many bills concerning it, and had appro- 

 priated money for its protection and improvement, but it had 

 failed to enact a law for the park's government. Major Lacey 

 took steps to remedy this omission, and his enthusiasm and en- 

 ergy carried through the act of May 7, 1894, and made protection 

 possible for that reservation. 



The act regulating interstate commerce in game, bears, and 

 will carry down to posterity, his honored name. 



Major Lacey 's death has deprived the cause of game protec- 

 tion of one of its most able and energetic advocates. 



As an expression of its sense of personal loss in the death of 



