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  States 
  which 
  have 
  no 
  fees 
  for 
  nonresident 
  licenses. 
  Tennessee 
  and 
  

   Kentucky 
  adopted 
  the 
  general 
  plan 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  law 
  of 
  1902. 
  

  

  The 
  reciprocal 
  license 
  is 
  experimental 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  adopted 
  only 
  in 
  

   States 
  which 
  have 
  not 
  jet 
  established 
  a 
  regular 
  license, 
  o 
  where 
  the 
  

   usual 
  form 
  of 
  license 
  has 
  proved 
  unsuccessful. 
  At 
  first 
  sight 
  it 
  seems 
  

   to 
  have 
  much 
  in 
  its 
  favor, 
  since 
  it 
  taxes 
  only 
  hunters 
  from 
  States 
  

   where 
  the 
  nonresident 
  license 
  system 
  is 
  in 
  force, 
  but 
  the 
  requirement 
  

   is 
  very 
  difficult 
  of 
  enforcement 
  and 
  its 
  inequalities 
  are 
  likely 
  to 
  arouse 
  

   resentment. 
  The 
  Minnesota 
  law, 
  which 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  in 
  the 
  

   country 
  providing 
  for 
  general 
  licenses, 
  proved 
  a 
  failure, 
  and 
  thus 
  far 
  

   the 
  New 
  York 
  law 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  dead 
  letter. 
  Kentucky 
  apparently 
  adopted 
  

   the 
  plan 
  chiefly 
  because 
  its 
  own 
  first 
  high-license 
  law 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  success, 
  

   while 
  the 
  Tennessee 
  law 
  was 
  proving 
  more 
  effective. 
  Tennessee 
  is, 
  in 
  

   fact, 
  the 
  only 
  State 
  in 
  which 
  this 
  method 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  accomplished 
  

   its 
  purpose. 
  If 
  each 
  State 
  had 
  a 
  single 
  fixed 
  rate 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  possible 
  

   to 
  carry 
  out 
  the 
  idea 
  with 
  some 
  degree 
  of 
  success, 
  but 
  when 
  the 
  appli- 
  

   cant 
  is 
  a 
  resident 
  of 
  a 
  State 
  where 
  separate 
  rates 
  are 
  in 
  force 
  for 
  large 
  

   and 
  small 
  game, 
  as 
  in 
  Idaho, 
  Minnesota, 
  Colorado, 
  Montana, 
  North 
  

   Dakota, 
  South 
  Dakota, 
  and 
  Wisconsin, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  easy 
  to 
  do 
  so; 
  and 
  when 
  

   he 
  resides 
  in 
  a 
  State 
  like 
  Maryland, 
  where 
  the 
  license 
  fee 
  varies 
  with 
  each 
  

   count} 
  7 
  , 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  determine 
  what 
  rate 
  he 
  should 
  be 
  charged. 
  The 
  

   question 
  is 
  still 
  further 
  complicated 
  by 
  exemptions 
  allowed 
  landowners, 
  

   as 
  in 
  North 
  Dakota, 
  or 
  guests, 
  as 
  in 
  Maryland 
  and 
  Virginia. 
  Further- 
  

   more, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  clear 
  what 
  is 
  expected 
  of 
  a 
  nonresident 
  from 
  New 
  York 
  

   hunting 
  in 
  Kentucky 
  or 
  Tennessee, 
  or 
  vice 
  versa. 
  Apart 
  from 
  these 
  

   administrative 
  difficulties 
  the 
  law 
  is 
  likety 
  to 
  create 
  friction 
  in 
  a 
  rigid 
  

   enforcement 
  of 
  its 
  provisions. 
  Two 
  residents 
  from 
  Maryland, 
  for 
  

   example, 
  hunting 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondacks 
  might 
  think 
  it 
  unfair 
  that 
  one 
  

   should 
  be 
  charged 
  $5 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  $25 
  because 
  the 
  first 
  happened 
  

   to 
  be 
  a 
  resident 
  of 
  Dorchester 
  County 
  and 
  the 
  second 
  of 
  Garrett 
  

   County; 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  equally 
  irritating 
  to 
  two 
  residents 
  of 
  Mary- 
  

   land 
  hunting 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  estate 
  in 
  Tennessee 
  by- 
  invitation 
  of 
  the 
  

   owner 
  if 
  one, 
  being 
  from 
  Washington 
  County, 
  should 
  have 
  the 
  privi- 
  

   lege 
  without 
  charge, 
  while 
  the 
  other, 
  being 
  from 
  Garrett 
  Count}^ 
  

   should 
  have 
  to 
  pay 
  a 
  fee 
  of 
  $25, 
  because 
  Washington 
  County 
  exempts 
  

   from 
  the 
  license 
  laws 
  nonresidents 
  hunting 
  by 
  invitation 
  on 
  their 
  host's 
  

   land, 
  while 
  Garrett 
  County 
  makes 
  no 
  such 
  exemption. 
  

  

  FEES. 
  

  

  The 
  fees 
  charged 
  for 
  nonresident 
  licenses 
  have 
  varied 
  from 
  $1 
  to 
  

   &500, 
  those 
  for 
  resident 
  licenses 
  from 
  25 
  cents 
  to 
  $5. 
  One 
  dollar 
  is 
  the 
  

   present 
  rate 
  charged 
  residents 
  and 
  nonresidents 
  alike 
  in 
  Washington 
  a 
  

   (see 
  PI. 
  VII), 
  and 
  $500 
  — 
  probably 
  the 
  highest 
  game 
  license 
  fee 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  « 
  Although 
  Washington, 
  in 
  1903, 
  actually 
  established 
  the 
  first 
  low 
  uniform 
  fee 
  for 
  

   residents 
  and 
  nonresidents 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  the 
  same 
  principle 
  was 
  advocated 
  

   eight 
  years 
  earlier 
  in 
  Illinois 
  in 
  a 
  btfl 
  which 
  failed 
  to 
  pass 
  the 
  legislature 
  in 
  1895. 
  

   (See 
  footnote, 
  p. 
  17). 
  

  

  