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West Virginia.— One act: Protecting elk until 1928 (ch. 27). 



Wisconsin. — Nineteen acts: Reimbursing the warden and deputies for certain 

 expenditures incurred in the line of duty (chs. 19, 24, 29, 498, and 499); extending 

 absolute protection to deer in Door, and in Wood County until 1916 (ch. 46); permitting 

 use of ferrets for taking rabbits on hunter's own land in Door County (ch. 71) ; authoriz- 

 ing the prosecution of educational work in behalf of fish and game by the game warden 

 and his deputies (ch. 73); more clearly defining the term "nighttime," during which 

 wild fowl are protected as the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before 

 sunrise central time (ch. 97); granting a clerk fee of 10 cents for issuing resident 

 licenses (ch. 172); permitting shipment or export to a taxidermist of green deer heads 

 when severed from the carcass, under permit from warden (ch. 258) ; directing superin- 

 tendent of public property to provide suitable quarters for the warden department 

 (ch. 369); regarding local protection of rabbits and squirrels (chs. 403 and 104); 

 strengthening the license law (ch. 424); authorizing the printing of 3,000 copies of 

 the report of the State fish and game warden (ch. 429); making the seasons for game 

 birds open on the same dates as those in Minnesota and North Dakota (ch. 737) ; pro- 

 tecting elk indefinitely (ch. 748) ; and memorializing Congress to set aside unoccupied 

 and unclaimed islands in the Great "Lakes for bird reserves (J. Res. 63-A). 



Wyoming. — One act: General revision; enlarging powers of game warden and 

 deputies, permitting employees of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to be appointed 

 deputy game wardens without bond or pay; extending term protection to quail and 

 Mongolian pheasants until 1915; shortening the season on deer 2 months, on grouse 

 4 days, and on sage grouse 1 month; extending term protection to moose, elk, and 

 sheep until 1918, except in three counties in the northwest part of the State, where 

 the season on elk and male sheep was shortened 15 days; repealing the provision 

 permitting nonresidents to be afield with a .22-caliber rifle without a license; reducing 

 the fee for the alien bird license from $20 to $5 ; prohibiting the sale or possession of game 

 taken in a State, nation, or foreign country when such acts are prohibited in this State; 

 requiring soldiers and sailors stationed at Government posts in the State when hunting 

 to be accompanied by a qualified guide; reducing the clerk fees for issuing licenses; 

 regulating sale and export; modifying the boundary lines of the Teton and Big Horn 

 game preserves and creating the Popo Agie, Shoshone, and Laramie game preserves; 

 increasing the pay of county deputy game wardens from $3 to $5 a day; increasing the 

 fee for a resident special license for one additional elk from $5 to $15; and reducing 

 the fee for a resident bird license from $1.50 to $1; reducing the limit on deer from two 

 to one male, and under a resident ordinary license from two elk to one female elk; 

 authorizing the appointment of a clerk in the office of the State warden at a salary of 

 $1,200; reducing the daily limit of grouse from 12 to 6; and prohibiting the use of a 

 silencer (ch.. 121). 



CANADIAN LAWS. 



Alberta. — One act: Protecting elk until 1915; permitting the sale of all game birds 

 except those of the grouse family September 20 to March 1 ; making the resident big 

 game license apply throughout the Province, but requiring a fee of only $1 of farmers 

 and their sons residing on their own land ; reducing the fee for a market hunter's 

 license from $10 to $5; prescribing a $1.25 bird license for residents of city or town 

 south of township 59; permitting treaty Indians to hunt without license. 



Manitoba. — One act: Permitting all game except pheasants to be taken at any time 

 north of latitude 54° by persons in actual need of food ; prohibiting hunting of water- 

 fowl in yachts or launches propelled by steam, gasoline, or electric motive power; 

 also protecting waterfowl on sand bars or shallow islands in open waters of Whitewater 

 Lake; prohibiting export of big game except by nonresident licensee, lawfully killing 

 same, under permit, fees, deer $2, and moose, elk, and caribou, $5; creating Riding 

 Mountain, Spruce Woods, Turtle Mountain, and Duck Mountain game preserves, and 



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