﻿BULLETIN OF THE 



Contribution from the Bureau of Biological Survey, Henry W. Henshaw 

 Chief. September 16, 1913. 



GAME LAWS FOR 1913 



A SUMMARY OF THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO SEASONS, EXPORT, 

 SALE, LIMITS, AND LICENSES. 



By T. S. Palmer, W. F. Bancroft, and Frank L. Earnshaw, 



Assistants, Biological Survey. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 SCOPE OF THE BULLETIN. 



The present bulletin, containing the fourteenth annual summary 

 of the game laws of the United States and Canada, has been prepared 

 on the same general plan as those issued each year since 1902. It 

 contains a summary of the more important features of the new 

 legislation, a brief synopsis of the new game laws enacted in each 

 State and Province, and a series of tables showing the provisions 

 relating to seasons, export, sale, limits, and licenses. It differs from 

 other publications on the game laws in several important points: 

 (1) Inclusion of a brief but comprehensive review of the measures 

 enacted, (2) arrangement of provisions by subjects instead of by 

 States, and (3) adoption of a uniform statement and order of the 

 various details to facilitate ready comparison of similar provisions 

 in different States. Its chief objects are to present in convenient 

 form the restrictions on hunting which affect the enforcement of the 

 Federal statutes regulating interstate commerce in game and the 

 protection of migratory birds, and to show the trend and general 

 condition of legislation from year to year. Provisions relating to 

 methods of capture, game refuges, enforcement of laws, disposition 

 of fines and fees, and matters of special or local application are 

 omitted. These can be found only by reference to the laws them- 

 selves or to the pamphlet editions of the game laws, obtainable in 

 most States from the proper officials. 1 



1 A directory of these officers, with their addresses, is published as Circular No. 94, B iologieal Survey 

 Of. S. Department of Agriculture, 1913. 



