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Suggestions for Improving Hunting License Law 



The suggestions for improving the present resident 

 hunting license law so as to make it a more efficient 

 instrument for the protection of birds and other game have 

 been classified thus, with the number reporting each: 

 Make license higher, 6; enforce present law, 5; make law 

 State-wide with no exemptions, 5; raise license to $25, 1; 

 raise license to $10, 1 ; enforce by rural policemen, 1 ; have 

 local warden give entire time to the enforcement of the 

 law, 1; require higher license from those who use pump 

 and automatic guns, 1; deputy in every township. 



Mr. W. T. Hankinson, Jr., Barnwell, writes: "Tax 

 every gun $5 per year, and every bird dog $5 per year. I 

 have talked with a great many people and I think it would 

 meet with State-wide approval." Mr. Pat Wall, Beaufort, 

 reports: "Raise the cost of license to $25 per year. We 

 need our friends, the birds, and the license should be 

 raised to a prohibitive price, or make it a chain gang 

 offense to kill any bird at any season.' ' Mr. A. K. Smoke, 

 Calhoun is of the opinion that: "It might be advisable to 

 amend the law and require a license even to hunt by per- 

 mission on the land of another/ ■ Mr. L. A. Beckman, 

 Charleston, suggests: "A gun tax of $1 for every man who 

 has a gun, whether on his own land or the land of another. 

 The present law allows a man to hunt on his own land 

 without a license, and also allows him to give his friends 

 permission to hunt on his land without a license. You 

 would be surprised how many take advantage of this 

 clause to evade the law." 



Judge H. A. M. Smith, Charleston, suggests: "It should 

 be made more general to apply to all counties and not 

 allow the license in one county to nullify the effects in an 

 adjoining county." Mr. J. C. Dye, Chester, suggests: 

 ' 'Make this law State-wide by all means, and counties that 

 have it will come near enforcing it. ' ■ Mr. E. G. Dreher 

 Lexington, suggests: "Would have local warden give entire 

 time to enforcement." Mr. B. D. Dargan, Florence, 

 reports: "Do away with the written permit clause and 



