﻿16 BULLETIN 22, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



South Dakota. — Five acts: Creating a State game and fish commission to consist of 

 the governor, attorney general, and the State game warden, and providing for the 

 employment of one clerk, three assistant salaried wardens, and five assistant per 

 diem game wardens (supplanting the county game- ward en system), and providing 

 rewards for informers (ch. 223); establishing a State game preserve in Custer County 

 and appropriating $15,000 for fencing and stocking it (ch. 224); extending absolute 

 protection to quail (ch. 225); creating a game fund (ch. 226); repealing the protection 

 afforded does in 1911 and permitting them to be killed during the regular open season 

 (ch. 227). 



Tennessee. — Four local laws: Protecting game in Haywood, Johnson, Lauderdale, 

 Washington, and Unicoi Counties (chs. 117, 269, 271, 309). 



Texas. — No legislation. 



' Utah. — Two acts: General revision of the game laws: Increasing salary of the com- 

 missioner from $1^800 to $2,400 and that of the chief deputy from $1,200 to $1,400 per 

 annum; shortening the season two weeks on deer, 45 days on sage hens, on quail in cer- 

 tain counties, and providing an open season of 10 days on grouse and a limit of 6 a day 

 and 25 a year; providing a close season throughout the year for elk, antelope, sheep, 

 doves, shore birds (except snipe), and swans; increasing the daily limit on geese from 



5 to 12; affording protection throughout the year to pelicans, bitterns, hawks, black- 

 birds, and kingfishers; reducing the fee for an alien license from $100 to $15; creating 

 the Strawberry Valley and Fish Lake game preserves; authorizing the commissioner 

 with concurrence of the State board of examiners, to set aside and maintain public 

 hunting grounds in Salt Lake, Davis, and Box Elder Counties (ch. 46); and providing 

 for the observance of bird day in the schools on the last Friday in April of each 

 year (ch. 60). 



Vermont. — Five acts: General revision and codification of the game laws; length- 

 ening the season on deer 10 days, on ruffed grouse and woodcock 16 days, and on plover 

 and English snipe two weeks; providing a close season on other shore birds for the first 

 time, December 1 to September 1, and providing no open season for pheasants, 

 European partridges, upland plover, and wood duck; permitting the sale of deer and 

 rabbits during the open season and of deer for a "reasonable time thereafter;" increas- 

 ing the resident license fee from 50 to 75 cents; reducing the daily bag on rabbits from 



6 to 5 and limiting possession of rabbits and squirrels to one day's bag; reducing the 

 daily limit on quail, ruffed grouse, partridge, and woodcock from 5 to 4 each, and that 

 on plover and English snipe from 5 each a day to 10 of all shore birds combined; 

 authorizing the commissioner to seize and confiscate birds or quadrupeds held in 

 violation of law, and wardens to search without warrant; providing for the establish- 

 ment of private preserves, game refuges, and regulation of propagation farms (No. 201); 

 relating to rabbits (No. 205); trapping and other prohibited methods of taking game 

 (No. 206); protecting elk for 10 years (No. 208); appropriating $2,500 for clerical 

 assistance of the commissioner for the biennial period (J. Res. No. 496). 



Washington. — Three acts: Creating a county game commission of three resident 

 members for each county and providing for the appointment of a chief game warden 

 west of the Cascades and a chief deputy warden east of the Cascades; county com- 

 mission authorized to appoint wardens and assistants and to set aside by proper publi. 

 cation county game preserves; shifting the season on big game to open October 1 

 instead of September 1 ; protecting moose until 1925, and allowing no open season for 

 caribou and swan, with 'numerous changes in local seasons, tending slightly toward 

 uniformity; reducing the seasonal limit on sheep and goat from 2 to 1 each, and on 

 upland game birds from 30 a week to 25; omitting the daily limit on waterfowl, reduc- 

 ing the weekly limit from 50 to 20, and defining a week to begin at midnight on 

 Wednesday night; repealing the nonresident $5 county license and the $50 alien 

 license (ch. 120); creating a game refuge in Pierce County, near Commencement Bay, 

 on Puget Sound (ch. 122). 



