10 CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1710 had prohibited the use of boats or canoes with sails, or canoes 

 disguised with hay, sedge, or seaweed for hunting waterfowl. 

 Kestrictions on export and sale of deer skins were also in force in 

 some of the colonies. The beginnings of the warden system had 

 been made in Massachusetts and New Hampshire about the middle of 

 the eighteenth century, but these comparatively few statutes were all 

 that were considered necessary. 



By 1800 the number of States which had found it desirable to pass 

 game legislation had been increased from 12 to 14 by the addition 

 of Vermont and Georgia. 



By 1850 comparatively little game legislation had been enacted, 

 although the list of States having such laws had increased to 19, which 

 included the thirteen original States and Maine, Vermont, Florida, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, and Indian Territory, thus comprising all the 

 States along the coast from the New Brunswick boundary to the 

 mouth of the Mississippi River, together with Indian Territory. The 

 only game law in force west of the Mississippi was the restriction on 

 hunting on Indian lands. No protection for nongame birds was pro- 

 vided until the passage of the first laws protecting insectivorous 

 birds in Connecticut and New Jersey in 1850. 



In the decade from 1851 to 1860 game laws were passed for the 

 first time in 12 States, increasing the total number to 31. These 

 States included Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, east 

 of the Mississippi River; Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and 

 California in the West; and Louisiana and Texas in the South. The 

 first law prohibiting the use of ferrets in hunting rabbits was passed 

 in Rhode Island in 1860. The only provision for warden service was 

 for local moose wardens in Maine in 1852. 



In the decade from 1861 to 1870 the list of States was still further 

 increased by 10. The chief advance was in the Rocky Mountain 

 States — in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming; farther west 

 in Nevada and Washington; and in the Middle West in Kansas, Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The first efforts to restrict 

 spring shooting were made in Ohio, 1 1861, and Michigan, 1863 and 

 1869; and shooting waterfowl from blinds placed in open water was 

 prolubited locally in North Carolina in 1870. 



In the decade from 1871 to 1880 the progress of game legislation 

 extended to 48 States by the addition of North and South Dakota, 

 Utah, and Oregon in the West; Arkansas and New Mexico in the 

 South; and the District of Columbia in the East. The waste of 

 game (Wyoming, 1871) and hide hunting (Oregon, 1874) were pro- 

 hibited, and the first statutes were enacted limiting bags of game 

 birds (Iowa, 1878) and providing rest days for wildfowl (Maryland, 



i This law (Acts 1801, p. 173) was local. Earlier laws covering a few species were enacted in Rhode 

 Island in 1840 and in Michigan in 1859. The former prohibited spring shooting of wood duck, black duck, 

 woodcock, and snipe; the latter restricted killing of mallard and teal. 



