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boats propelled by sail or steam. Market bunting 

 was stopped in Arkansas in 1875, and a bag-limit 

 law passed the legislature of Iowa in 1878. Cali- 

 fornia and New Hampshire established game com- 

 missions in the latter year. Non-resident shoot- 

 ing-licenses were required in New Jersey by 1873 

 — the same year in which New York published the 

 first game-laws in pamphlet form — and in Dela- 

 ware in 1879. 



The reforms of the next decade were equally 

 numerous. The model law for the protection of 

 non-game birds was drawn up by the American 

 Ornithologists' Union and acted upon by New 

 York in 1886 and by Pennsylvania in 1889. 

 Eighteen eighty-seven saw in Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, and Wisconsin the appointment of the first 

 salaried game-wardens. In Wisconsin birds were 

 no longer allowed to be shot for millinery pur- 

 poses, and in Delaware there was to be no more 

 hunting in the snow. 



Michigan in 1891 regulated the training of dogs 

 on game-birds out of season. Four years later 

 the resident hunting-license system had been in- 

 stalled in several States, and by the end of the 

 decade dove-baiting was prohibited in Georgia. 

 The famous Lacey Act, regulating interstate com- 

 merce in game, became a federal law in 1900. 

 Pennsylvania in 1907 placed a ban on the auto- 

 matic shot-gun, being the first State to do so. By 

 the end of the following year a number of States 



