MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 



The game laws contain many provisions that can not be conveniently 

 grouped under the subjects heretofore presented, and hence are col- 

 lected under the head of miscellaneous provisions. Some of these are 

 highly interesting and very essential to proper administration. 



PUBLICATION OF LAWS AND REPORTS. 



Prompt publication of the frequent amendments to game laws in 

 sufficiently large editions to meet all reasonable requirements is essen- 

 tial, and failure in this particular interferes seriously with enforce- 

 ment. The volumes of session laws are inaccessible to a large part 

 of the people, who must therefore rely upon some secondary but 

 authoritative publication for a knowledge of such changes as have 

 been made. Eveiy State and Territory except Arizona, Georgia, 

 Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Oklahoma, and 

 Rhode Island, publishes the full text of its game laws in pamphlet 

 form for general distribution, and Arizona and Rhode Island issue 

 abstracts. These pamphlets are usually published by the game depart- 

 ment, but in a few instances they are issued by the secretaiy of state, 

 and in Florida b} 7 one of the county wardens — the game warden of 

 Lake County. In some States, such as Pennsylvania and New Mexico, 

 where there is a large foreign element in the population, summaries of 

 the laws are published in two or more languages. Three States — 

 Alabama, Colorado, and New Hampshire — direct their game depart- 

 ments to publish and distribute the game laws; others make an appro- 

 priation for the purpose; but the majority leave the matter entirely to 

 the discretion of the game officials. The number of copies to be 

 printed is sometimes fixed by statute, as in Idaho and Wyoming, 

 where it is placed at 5,000, in New Hampshire at 10,000, and in New 

 York at 25,000 copies. Specific appropriations for printing the laws 

 are made in four States — Idaho, $50; Wyoming, $250; Colorado, $300; 

 and Pennsylvania, $300. Few States, however, have thus far provided 

 editions large enough to meet the demand, for each hunter should be 

 supplied with at least one copy of the game laws every year. The 

 distribution in States which issue resident licenses can be readily and 

 economically effected by placing at the disposal of each officer who 

 issues licenses enough pamphlet copies to supply each licensee. 



Nearly every State requires its game official or board to report on 

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