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In 1858 Georgia passed an act preventing nonresidents 

 from hunting or fishing within the limits of that State, in 

 order, as stated, to prevent strangers and others from hold- 

 ing conversation with slaves. 



Delaware in 1863, following the example of Virginia, 

 made it a misdemeanor for the nonresident to kill wild 

 ducks, geese, or other water-fowl on any of the marshes or 

 waters of that State, the penalty for so doing being fixed 

 at $50 to $100. In 1866, Florida got busy and prohibited 

 nonresidents from camping or fire hunting, with or with- 

 out dogs or guns, in the counties of Taylor and LaFayette. 

 In 1880 we are told that Maryland prohibited nonresidents 

 of the five counties bordering the Patuzent from shooting- 

 snipe, rail, and wild fowl on the waters and -marshes of the 

 river, and also tabooed the use of sink boxes in Queen Anne 

 county by others than residents of the county. Later laws 

 in the different States went further, but space does not per- 

 mit the enumeration here of any more instances of discrimi- 

 nation against the unhappy nonresident. ' Sportsmen of to- 

 day, even, get a taste of it when they go to some distant game 

 field, and so they will know how to sympathize to some ex- 

 tent with their less fortunate Colonial fathers. 



Mr. T. S. Palmer, who has studied this subject exhaus- 

 tively for the U. S. Government, and to whom I am indebted 

 for this data on the history of hunting licenses, tells us that 

 the local license had its rise in the Eastern States, the first 

 law containing a nonresident-license provision being ap- 

 parently that passed in 1873 in New Jersey, under the title, 

 "An act to incorporate the West Jersey Game Protective 

 Association." Section 7 of this act of incorporation last- 

 ing for fifteen years reads as follows : 



"That if any person or persons nonresidents of this 

 State, shall kill, destroy, hunt, or take any doe* buck, fawn, 

 partridge, moor fowl, grouse, quail, or woodcock, at any 

 time within the counties of Camdeii, Gloucester, Atlantic?, 

 Salem, Cumberland and Cape May in this state without <><mi- 



