74 Fiest Annual Eeport of the 



mence or end, as the case may be, on the Saturday immediately 

 preceding each Sunday." This law has given general satisfac- 

 tion to the sportsmen throughout the State. 



THE BANNER DIVISIONS. 



The conditions in the Metropolitan and Long Island Division 

 in relation to the protection of game have improved greatly during 

 the year 1911, and I wish to make special mention of the efficient 

 and energetic work carried on by this division. The department 

 has received a great many complaints from the people of Long 

 Island in relation to the shooting of ducks between sunset and 

 sunrise. Protectors were ordered to the vicinity of Eaton's Neck 

 to put a stop to this practice, and on Thanksgiving morning at 

 Eaton's Neck, the protectors who had been given charge of the 

 suppressing of the illegal killing of ducks between sunset and 

 sunrise apprehended twenty men who were taken before Justice 

 George C. Hendrickson of Huntington, Long Island. The men 

 apprehended decided to stand trial, and retained lawyers to 

 defend them. The first case was that of Charles Hendrickson 

 (in no way related to Judge Hendrickson), who was tried on a 

 charge of violation of section 170 of the Game Law, and found 

 guilty by the justice, who suspended sentence. The other nine- 

 teen men plead guilty, and sentence was suspended in each case. 

 After the twenty cases were disposed of, a second charge was 

 brought against Charles Hendrickson for shooting without a 

 license. He also plead guilty to this offense, and sentence was 

 again suspended. 



The department had gone to a great deal of trouble and expense 

 to apprehend these men, on whom the justice suspended sentence, 

 although they plead guilty. The department not being satisfied 

 with the disposition of the cases, penalty actions were brought 

 against those men by Mr. H. Leroy Austin, who was the com- 

 missioner at that time, but were dismissed by Hon. Thomas Mott 

 Osborne, who succeeded Mr. Austin as commissioner. 



I also wish to call attention to the splendid work done by the 

 Central "New York Division. Although there were but six pro- 

 tectors in this division there were successfully prosecuted 116 



