﻿8 BULLETIN 22, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.' 



LICENSES. 



License measures received consideration in 16 States and 4 Cana- 

 dian Provinces, and resident licenses were adopted for the first time 

 in Delaware, Florida, Michigan (birds), Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 

 The fee in each instance is SI with additions of 10 to 25 cents as a 

 clerk fee in Delaware, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Alberta also required 

 a SI. 25 bird license for residents of cities in the southern part of the 

 Province. Other new license requirements were as follows: Maine 

 provided a special nonresident license (fee $5) for hunting birds in 

 certain counties prior to October 1 ; Michigan a nonresident and resi- 

 dent alien license (fee $10) for small game; Wyoming withdrew the 

 privilege permitting a nonresident to be afield with a .22-caliber rifle 

 without a license; and Alberta required a resident big game license 

 throughout the Province, but the fee to farmers and their sons residing 

 on their own land was reduced to $1. License fees were increased in 

 several States. In Vermont the resident license was raised from 50 to 

 75 cents; the Maine general nonresident license from $15 to $25; in 

 Montana the general alien from $25 to $30 ; and in Wyoming the spe- 

 cial resident license permitting the killing of one additional elk from 

 $5 to $15. In Canada resident big game licenses were increased from 

 $2 to $3 and from $2 to $5, respectively, in New Brunswick and 

 Saskatchewan. Fees were also reduced in three Western States : in 

 Utah the cost of the alien license was reduced from $100 to $15; in 

 Wyoming, the alien bird license, from $20 to $5, and the resident 

 bird license from $1.50 to $1; and in Washington the $5 nonresident 

 county licenses and the $50 nonresident alien licenses were abolished. 



Montana and Oregon required $25 alien gun licenses in addition 

 to the prescribed hunting licenses, but on the whole the license legis- 

 lation affecting aliens has been more favorable than usual. 



Among the miscellaneous provisions the following may be men- 

 tioned: Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Wyoming strengthened their 

 license laws ; New Hampshire authorized town clerks to issue resident 

 licenses, but in order to prevent fraudulent issue of such licenses to 

 nonresidents prohibited issue to any applicant not personally known 

 to the clerk as a resident of the State. 



WARDEN SERVICE. 



The warden service of at least 17 States was affected either directly 

 or indirectly by the legislation of the year and in most instances 

 the tendency was to increase its effectiveness. Florida created the 

 office of fish and game commissioner, Maine delegated the protec- 

 tion of game on the islands in the sea and 1 mile inland on the coast 



