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Carolina prohibited hunting by any person "not having a settled habita- 

 tion in the" province, requiring each hunter to first obtain a certificate 

 from officials of his county asserting "his having planted and tended 

 five thousand corn-hills" during the preceding season or year. This was 

 evidently aimed at hunting by irresponsible persons who were not tax- 

 payers and at non-resident hunters. Possibly the germ of discrimina- 

 tion against non-resident hunters may be found in a New Jersey statute 

 of 1719 prohibiting non-residents from "taking oysters or putting them 

 on board a vessel not wholly owned by a resident." In most of the 

 United States and Canadian provinces the license fee for non-resi- 

 dents-, is now much higher than that for residents. In some states 

 non-residents are also required to employ resident guides. About 

 5,000,000 hunting licenses were issued in the United States in 1924, 

 the fees for which amounted to over $6,000,000. 



In many states the owner (and members of his family or his tenants) 

 may hunt on his own property without license. Some states allow 

 persons under a certain age to hunt without license, sometimes re- 

 quiring consent of parents or guardians, and a few exempt veterans 

 of the Civil War from the license requirement or require them to pay 

 no fee therefor. Some states do not require a license for hunting rab- 

 bits and squirrels. In a few jurisdictions unnaturalized aliens are pro- 

 hibited from hunting or the possession of firearms. 



The game laws in most states contain various definite provisions re- 

 lating to trespass by hunters, 6 such as requiring permission of the 

 owner or lessee, which permission in some states must be in writing, 

 while in a few states the owner who wishes to prevent hunting on his 

 premises is expected to post notices to that efTect. Laws against shoot- 

 ing from public highways and railroad rights of way are becoming 

 more general. 



Protective laws are not confined to game animals. Though it is gen- 

 erally known that many states have close seasons for or permanently 

 protect beaver, many people do not seem to be aware that there are 

 now in nearly all states close seasons for other fur-bearers, in addi- 

 tion to the bear and rabbit, which in some jurisdictions are protected 



since then. For summary of laws down to date see Game Laws [of the United 

 States and Canadian provinces] for the season 1927-1928, Farmers' Bull., No. 155 

 1928; for 1928-1929, No. 1575; for 1929-1930, No. 1616. 



6 Palmer, Some benefits the farmer may derive from game protection, Yearbook 

 U. S. Dept. of Agric. for 1904, pp. 509-520. Farmers' Bull., No. 1550, 1928. 



