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  HUNTING 
  LICENSES. 
  

  

  licenses, 
  in 
  most 
  cases 
  good 
  only 
  for 
  the 
  county 
  of 
  issue. 
  With 
  a 
  few 
  

   exceptions 
  the 
  license 
  fees 
  were 
  comparatively 
  small, 
  usually 
  less 
  than 
  

   $10. 
  The 
  county 
  license 
  has 
  not 
  met 
  with 
  general 
  favor. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  

   adopted 
  by 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  States, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  force 
  in 
  less 
  than 
  one-third 
  

   of 
  the 
  States 
  which 
  have 
  the 
  license 
  system. 
  

  

  MARKET-HUNTING 
  LICENSES. 
  

  

  The 
  effort 
  in 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Southern 
  States 
  to 
  restrict 
  market 
  hunting 
  

   and 
  to 
  prevent 
  the 
  export 
  of 
  game 
  from 
  the 
  State 
  for 
  commercial 
  pur- 
  

   poses 
  brought 
  about 
  a 
  twofold 
  result 
  — 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  market- 
  

   hunting 
  license 
  and 
  the 
  absolute 
  exclusion 
  of 
  nonresidents 
  from 
  

   hunting 
  privileges. 
  A 
  correspondent 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Field, 
  who 
  

   states 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  observed 
  game 
  conditions 
  in 
  Arkansas 
  for 
  twenty- 
  

   five 
  years, 
  asserts 
  that 
  90 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  game 
  killed 
  in 
  that 
  State 
  has 
  

   been 
  killed 
  by 
  market 
  hunters. 
  (Am. 
  Field, 
  LIX, 
  p. 
  216, 
  Feb. 
  28, 
  

   1903.) 
  In 
  view 
  of 
  this 
  statement, 
  which 
  apparently 
  has 
  strong 
  inde-. 
  

   pendent 
  support, 
  it 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  notice 
  that 
  Arkansas 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  the 
  pioneer 
  in 
  restrictions 
  on 
  market 
  hunters. 
  In 
  the 
  act 
  of 
  

   March 
  6, 
  1875, 
  a 
  tax 
  of 
  $10 
  was 
  levied 
  on 
  all 
  nonresident 
  trappers, 
  

   hunters, 
  seiners 
  or 
  netters 
  of 
  fish 
  following 
  their 
  calling 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

   Twenty-two 
  years 
  later, 
  in 
  1897, 
  the 
  tax 
  was 
  increased 
  to 
  $25. 
  (Acts 
  

   of 
  1897, 
  p. 
  113.) 
  In 
  1903 
  two 
  bills 
  were 
  passed 
  b} 
  T 
  the 
  legislature 
  — 
  one 
  

   imposing 
  a 
  tax 
  of 
  $300 
  on 
  all 
  nonresidents 
  hunting 
  in 
  the 
  State, 
  the 
  

   other 
  absolutely 
  prohibiting 
  hunting 
  b}^ 
  nonresidents 
  except 
  in 
  Mis- 
  

   sissippi 
  County. 
  The 
  license 
  bill 
  was 
  vetoed; 
  the 
  prohibition 
  bill 
  

   became 
  a 
  law. 
  

  

  Missouri, 
  in 
  1877 
  (Laws 
  of 
  1877, 
  p. 
  333), 
  prohibited 
  nonresidents 
  

   from 
  hunting 
  game 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  selling 
  it 
  or 
  removing 
  it 
  from 
  

   the 
  State, 
  and 
  in 
  1879 
  extended 
  this 
  law 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  prohibit 
  nonresidents 
  

   from 
  hunting 
  at 
  all 
  within 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  In 
  1879 
  Tennessee 
  enacted 
  legislation 
  prohibiting 
  nonresidents 
  

   from 
  hunting 
  deer 
  for 
  profit 
  in 
  some 
  counties, 
  and 
  in 
  1889 
  in 
  others 
  

   restricted 
  such 
  hunting 
  to 
  persons 
  hunting 
  on 
  their 
  own 
  lands. 
  These 
  

   provisions 
  were 
  repealed 
  in 
  1903 
  by 
  the 
  adoption 
  of 
  a 
  general 
  game 
  

   law 
  which 
  provided 
  a 
  market-hunting 
  license 
  of 
  $25 
  and 
  authorized 
  

   the 
  State 
  game 
  warden 
  to 
  collect 
  from 
  nonresident 
  sportsmen 
  the 
  same 
  

   fee 
  which 
  residents 
  of 
  Tennessee 
  would 
  be 
  subject 
  to 
  in 
  their 
  States. 
  

  

  In 
  1884 
  South 
  Carolina 
  enacted 
  a 
  law 
  requiring 
  each 
  nonresident 
  

   engaged 
  in 
  the 
  business 
  of 
  hunting, 
  ducking, 
  fishing, 
  or 
  gathering 
  oys- 
  

   ters 
  or 
  terrapin, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  sale 
  of 
  game 
  in 
  the 
  counties 
  along 
  the 
  sea 
  

   board 
  — 
  Georgetown, 
  Charleston, 
  Beaufort, 
  Colleton, 
  and 
  Berkeley 
  — 
  to 
  

   pay 
  a 
  license 
  at 
  the 
  rate 
  of 
  $25 
  for 
  each 
  nonresident 
  hand 
  employed. 
  

   (Laws 
  of 
  1881, 
  p. 
  731.) 
  These 
  licenses 
  were 
  not 
  required 
  of 
  persons 
  

   hunting 
  or 
  fishing 
  on 
  their 
  own 
  lands 
  or 
  waters 
  included 
  within 
  them, 
  

   nor, 
  under 
  an 
  amendment 
  passed 
  in 
  1892, 
  of 
  persons 
  authorized 
  by 
  

  

  