﻿GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 11 



NEW LAWS PASSED IN 1913. 



FEDERAL LAWS. 



Two acts: Agricultural appropriation act containing provisions 

 for Federal protection of migratory birds and for the establishment 

 and maintenance of elk refuge in Wyoming (37 Stat., 847); resolu- 

 tion authorizing the President to propose to Governments of other 

 countries the negotiation of a convention for the protection and pres- 

 ervation of birds (S. Res. 25.) 



FEDERAL REGULATIONS. 



Proposed regulations of the Department of Agriculture under the 

 law for the protection of migratory birds (Biol. Circ. 92) ; regulations 

 of August 1 under the Alaska game law suspending the sale of deer 

 in Alaska -until August 15, 1914, and shortening the season on 

 mountain goats. 



STATE LAWS. 



Arkansas. — Four acts: Affecting Boone, Calhoun, Grant, Hot Spring, Lonoke, and 

 Monroe counties (Acts 251, 267, 276, 280). 



Arizona. — One act : Prohibiting the importation of game for sale ; repealing the provi- 

 sion authorizing the State warden to appoint per diem State deputies; increasing the 

 salary of the State warden from $1,200 to $1,800, allowing $1,000 per year for traveling 

 expenses, and authorizing the appointment of an office deputy at $1,200 per year, all 

 to be paid from the general fund; making sheriffs, constables, and live-stock sanitary 

 inspectors ex officio game wardens; authorizing the State warden to appoint such 

 county deputy game wardens as may be necesssary at $3 per diem and expenses 

 while under directions from the State warden. 



California. — Several laws; not received at date of going to press. 



Colorado. — Two acts: Protecting deer until 1918 and imported pheasants until 1924; 

 lengthening the open season on waterfowl, cranes, and shore birds (except curlew and 

 yellowlegs) 81 days, and on curlews and yellowlegs 112 days; shortening the season 

 on doves two weeks and making it uniform throughout the State (ch. — ); memorial- 

 izing Congress to enact Senate bill 6497 for the protection of migratory game and 

 insectivorous birds (H. J. M. No. 3). 



Connecticut. — Six acts: Providing that any licensed hunter who shall injure fences 

 or let down bars without replacing them shall forfeit his hunting license and the 

 privilege of securing another license for a period of two years (ch. 37); shortening 

 the season on rabbits three weeks, making it open on the same date as the season for 

 upland game (ch. 74); prohibiting use of snares for all game (ch. 79); requiring appli- 

 cants for hunting license to be 16 years old (ch. 103); permitting killing of the star- 

 ling, and red-winged and crow blackbirds when destroying corn (ch. 133); providing 

 j.'or the appointment of a nonpartisan commission of eight members, one from each 

 county, and the appointment of a superintendent of fisheries and game (ch. 228). 



Delaware. — Seven acts: Providing resident and nonresident hunting licenses with 

 fees of $1.10 and $10.50, respectively (ch. 152); closing the season indefinitely on 

 Hungarian partridges, pheasants (ch, 156), and swans in the State and on doves in 

 Newcastle County and reducing the daily limit on rail from 75 to 50 (ch. 158); 

 shortening the seasons on squirrels two months, on ducks one month, and on geese 

 and brant two weeks, and making the season on waterfowl uniform in the State (ch. 

 159); authorizing the appointment of a chief game and fish warden, salary $600 per 

 annum (ch. 153); providing that all fines shall be paid into the game protection fund 



