BOUNTIES. 



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bits. The ' Los Angeles Times ' states that no less than 4,000 scalps were 

 secured in the drive near Traver, March 6, 1892, and as many as 5,391 

 have been deposited by a single person at one time. The ordinance 

 under which these bounties were paid will serve as an illustration of 

 those in other counties. It was passed October 31, 1891, and reads as 

 follows : 



Ordinance No. 46. 



The board of supervisors of the County of Tulare, State of California, do ordain 

 as follows : 



Section 1. [Provides for a bounty of 2^ cents on ground squirrel scalps.] 



Sec. 2. That a bounty of one and one-half ($0.01^) cents be paid by this county 

 on each and every scalp taken from a jack rabbit, containing both ears of said dead 

 animal, killed or destroyed by any person or persons in this county, upon the said 

 person or persons so killing or destroying said animal depositing said scalp or scalps 

 with any notary public, justice of the peace, or any officer authorized by law to take 

 affidavits, and certify claim with said affidavit, together with affidavit of such officer 

 that said scalp or scalps have been destroyed by fire to this board. 



Sec. 3. That said bounty shall be paid by the county until such time when the 

 funds set apart for that purpose shall be exhausted, or until this ordinance be 

 repealed or rescinded by this board. 



Sec. 4. That this ordinance take effect and be in force from and after the 31st day 

 of October, 1891. 



Sec. 5. [Provides for publication of the ordinance.] 



So far as figures are available, the amount expended in California is 

 about $16,000, although no returns have been received from San 

 Bernardino County. The amounts disbursed are shown below: 



Table showing expenditures for Bounties by Counties in California. 



County. 



Butte 



Colusa 



Fresno 



Modoc 



San Bernardino. 



Sha.sta 



Sutter 



Tulare 



Bounty in force. 



Jan. 7, 1887, to Feb. 1, 1890. . . . 

 I Feb. 10, 1888, to Sept. 12, 1892. 

 'Sept. 12, 1892, to Feb. 1, 1894. . . 



Three months, 1886 



Aug. 25 to Dec. 6, 1893 



May 11, 1891, to Mar. 1, 1892. 

 Sept. 25, 1893, to July 9, 1894. 

 Oct. 31, 1891, to Nov., 1894?. . 



Number 

 of scalps. 



^33,000 

 27. 559 



= 200, 000 



Kate per 

 scalp. 



Amount 

 expended. 



Cents. 

 10 



3 



20 

 5 

 8 



$3, 500. 00 

 4, 800. 00 



342. 55 

 13,040.42 

 3, 000. 00 



* Estimated from amounts expended. 



t Includes also bounties on gophers and ground squirrels, at 5 cents per scalp. 



Two counties in Idaho — Ada and Canyon — are now paying bounties 

 on jack rabbits at the rate of 3 cents per scalp. Mr. Charles S. Kings- 

 ley, county clerk, has kindly supplied the figures for the expendi- 

 tures in Ada County, and wrote, under date of August 24, 1895, as 

 follows: 



"The county began the payment of bounty July, 1878, and from that 

 time until October, 1886, paid |8,129.75; from the latter date to the 



