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plying with the bylaws of this Game Protective Society then 

 the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay the 

 sum of $50 each, for each and every offense., .provided 

 nothing in this Act shall prevent residents of this state from 

 taking game or fish, subject to the existing laws of this 

 state." 



The membership fee being $5 for the first year and $2 

 for every year thereafter, and nonresidents being required 

 to procure membership certificates before hunting in the 

 six counties above named. These certificates became in 

 effect nonresident hunting licenses. In 1878 a broader and 

 general act was passed, applying to other associations of 

 that State. Other States later adopted the same plan, and 

 thus the hunting license that we have today, though 

 changed from time to time, came into being. 



The second phase of licensing the hunter is called the 

 enactment of market-hunting licenses, the effect in some 

 of the southern States being to restrict market hunting and 

 to prevent export of game from the State for commercial 

 purposes, which brought about this legislation. This is the 

 blow that was needed to control the unlawful activities of 

 the market-hunter, what is now called in outdoor parlance, 

 "the pot-hunter". Much good legislation has been enacted 

 with a view to counteracting his evil practices, but he is still 

 very much at liberty in not a few localities, no doubt. 



The resident hunting license had its origination in 

 the system of special licenses as developed in some of the 

 counties of Maryland in the early seventies and eighties. 

 Shooting wild fowl from sink boxes, sneak boats, or in some 

 cases from blinds was prohibited except under license, and 

 these licenses, the record says, were issued only to residents. 

 Hence they constitute the beginning of the resident hunt- 

 ing license. The first of these laws was passed in 1872 for 

 the protection of wild fowl on the Susquehanna Flats, at the 

 head of Chesapeake Bay. Section 7 of the act provides : 



"No owner, master, hirer, borrower, employee of any 



