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(ch. 154); increasing the weekly export limit on birds from 1 dozen to 20 and on 

 animals from 6 to 10 of each species and repealing the shipping exemption in favor 

 of residents on plover, snipe, and ducks; requiring officers of any court to remit 

 fines collected to the commission, and abolishing the informer's fee and the provision 

 that part of the fines shall go to the Audubon Society (ch. 155). 



Florida. — Three acts: A general game law, making seasons on all game uniform 

 throughout the State, prohibiting the killing of does and hen turkeys at any time 

 and ruffed grouse and imported pheasants until December 1, 1915; prohibiting export 

 and sale of all protected game, reducing the bag limit on deer from five to three a 

 year, providing daily and yearly limits on birds, and repealing all local laws (ch. 

 6534); creating the office of game and fish commissioner at a salary of $2,500 and 

 establishing $1 county and $3 State licenses for residents and a $15 county license 

 for nonresidents and aliens, creating a game and fish protection fund and providing 

 that any surplus above $5,000 in said fund shall be paid March 1 each year into the 

 State school fund (ch. 6535). Extending absolute protection to robins (ch. 6533). A 

 number of local game laws were passed but were all repealed by the provision in 

 ch. 6534. 



Georgia. — No legislation. 



Idaho. — No legislation. 



Illinois. — One act: Replacing the office of State game commissioner by a State game 

 and fish conservation commission of three members, the president to receive a salary 

 of $4,000, the other two members $3,000 each; authorizing the appointment of 

 six wardens at $1,500 and 60 deputy wardens at $1,200 a year each, and additional 

 deputies for temporary services at $100 per month; shortening the open season on 

 squirrels one month and on doves six weeks; lengthening the season on prairie chickens 

 one week; extending the close term until 1918 on partridge, blue, mountain, and 

 valley quail, Hungarian partridge, capercailzie, heath hen, black grouse, and wood- 

 cock, and until 1923 on wild turkey, sand grouse, and imported pheasants and par- 

 tridges; and providing that all license receipts shall be paid into the State treasury 

 (S. B. 617). 



Indiana. — Four acts: Prohibiting the use of ferrets in hunting rabbits (ch. 12); 

 repealing the provision requiring one-third of the license receipts to be expended 

 for restocking purposes and providing that all license receipts shall be paid into a 

 fish and game fund (ch. 120); shortening the open season on quail and ruffed grouse 

 10 days, extending protection to rabbits from January 10 to April 1, and prohibiting 

 the hunting of any other game from December 20 to April 1; reducing the commis- 

 sioner's fee taxed against the defendant under the game laws from $20 to $5 (ch. 147); 

 removing protection from blackbirds and increasing the maximum penalty for viola- 

 tion of the nongame bird law from $25 to $50 (ch. 197). 



Iowa. — Two acts: Increasing the salary of the game warden from $1,600 to $2,200 

 and authorizing the appointment of three assistant game wardens at $1,200 a year 

 each (ch. 203); providing that no deer shall be distrained until it shall be necessary 

 in the opinion of the game warden or his deputies (ch. 206). 



Kansas. — Two acts: Protecting quail and prairie chicken for five years, adding 

 doves to the game list without a season, but providing a limit of 20 a day; increasing 

 the limit on plover and ducks from 12 each to 20 each a day (ch. — ); authorizing the 

 issue of permits to export game birds for scientific or propagating purposes (ch. — ). 



Maine. — One act: General revision and codification of game and fish laws; short- 

 ening the season on bull moose two weeks; protecting deer on Mount Desert Island, 

 shifting the season in Androscoggin County, and making it more uniform in the State; 

 repealing the provision authorizing the commission to reimburse farmers and tenants 

 for damage done by deer; extending complete protection to Hungarian partridges; 

 pheasants, black game, and capercailzie, (cock of the woods) ; making the law on ducks 

 uniform throughout the State; reducing the daily bag on plover from 15 to 5. on 



