﻿GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 15 



North Dakota. — One art: Authorizing the appoint menf of one regular deputy war- 

 den for each judicial district (instead of four for each commission district); closing the 

 season on deer until 1910, prohibiting spring shooting of geese and cranes, and adding 

 all the year protection to partridge. 



Ohio. — Three acts: Removing quail, ruffed grouse, and doves from the game list by 

 closing the season until 1015; extending the protection on imported pheasants to 1915; 

 closing the open season on shorebirds, rails, coots, and waterfowl December 1 (No. 79); 

 creating the agricultural commission and delegating to it the work of game preservation 

 (No. 147); providing a resident license, fee $1.25, and requiring licensee to wear a 

 badge conspicuously exposed bearing the number of his hunting license; creating a 

 game-protection fund into which all license receipts shall be paid; authorizing the 

 expenditure of 50 per cent of the game fund for the purposes of restocking, and the 

 establishment of game preserves on private holdings; and reducing the export limit 

 under a nonresident license from 50 to 25 birds or animals (No. 249). 



Oklahoma. — Two acts: Opening the season on male deer in Delaware County 

 (ch. — ); abolishing the salaried-warden system and the present force of 12 wardens. 



Oregon. — Five acts: General revision of the game and fish laws — Dividing the State 

 into two game districts, east and west of the Cascades; extending absolute protection 

 to elk, caribou, and goats; affording protection throughout the year to imported 

 pheasants and partridges, bobwhite, prairie chicken, wild turkey, certain shore birds, 

 and swan; shortening the season on doves and wild pigeons 46 days, on shore birds, 

 rail, coot, and geese 6 weeks, and on ducks west of Cascades 17 days, but east of Cas- 

 cades lengthening the season 16 days; protecting squirrels east of Cascades all the year; 

 reducing the limit on deer from 5 to 3; making numerous changes in local bag limits; 

 providing limits for seven consecutive days instead of individual weekly limits; pro- 

 hibiting the sale of all game, except imported game, between September 1 and Novem- 

 ber 1, and game birds or animals raised in captivity under permit and tag; establishing 

 civil liability for game illegally killed ; providing a $25 alien gun license ; permitting 

 game to be raised in captivity under permit; removing protection from cormorants, 

 American mergansers, and ravens, and prohibiting use of a gun larger than 10 gauge 

 (ch. 232); creating the Imnaha, Deschutes, Steen's Mountain, Sturgeon Lake, Capitol, 

 and Grass Mountain game preserves (ch. 189); permitting such exceptions in contracts 

 for the establishment of game preserves on private lands as will protect the property 

 or crops of the owner (ch. 251); resolution requesting Federal protection of migratory 

 game birds (S. J. M. No. 2); resolution requesting enactment of a law establishing 

 Federal refuges for the protection of big game (S. J. M. No. 6). 



Pennsylvania. — Seven acts: Removing doves, killdeer plover, and blackbirds from 

 the game list (No. 11); protecting elk until 1921, but permitting them to be raised in 

 captivity under the same regulations as apply to deer (No. 26); prescribing a resident 

 license, fee $1.15, and requiring each licensee to wear the number of his license on 

 back of his sleeve (No. 63) ; shifting the season on squirrels, ruffed grouse, and imported 

 pheasants two weeks earlier; shortening the season on woodcock two weeks, lengthen- 

 ing the season on rabbits and Hungarian partridges two weeks (No. 70); amending the 

 nongame bird law by extending protection to the shrike, eagle, osprey, crane, heron, 

 bittern, and raven, and prohibiting the sale of plumage of native birds or any foreign 

 birds of the same family, in effect July 1, 1914 (No. 72); protecting wild turkeys until 

 1915 (No. 123); prohibiting the sale of quail and ruffed grouse wherever taken (No. 134). 



Rhode Island. — One act: Shifting the season on quail, ruffed grouse, and woodcock 

 two weeks, to open November 1 instead of October 15, and protecting imported pheas- 

 ants and Hungarian partridges until 1920 (ch. 966). 



South Carolina. — No legislation. 



