CHRONOLOGY OF GAME PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES, 

 1776-1911. 



1776. Pennsylvania. — Constitutional provision that inhabitants of the State "shall 



have liberty to fowl and hunt in seasonable times on lands they hold, and all 

 other lands therein not inclosed." 

 Virginia. — Expiration on Aug. 1 of first close term on deer for 4 years. (Hen- 

 ning's Stats., vol. 8, p. 591.) 



1777. North Carolina. — Law prohibiting hunting at night by firelight (chap. 22). 



1778. New Hampshire. — Act protecting deer, Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, and requiring towns to 



select two persons each year to enforce the law. (Laws 1776-80, p. 135.) 



1779. North Carolina. — Act prohibiting hunting at night with gun and firelight. 

 Vermont. — First game law, protecting deer from Jan. 10 to June 10 (p. 58). 



1780. Vermont. — Act regulating fines and changing them from continental currency 



to English currency. 



1784. North Carolina. — Law prohibiting fire hunting under penalty of 39 lashes, 



prohibiting slaves from hunting, and forbidding hunting without permission 

 on posted lands east of the Appalachian Mountains (chap. 33). 



1785. New York. — Law protecting deer (from Dec. 1 to Sept. 1) and heath hens (from 



Apr. 1 to Oct. 1) (chap. 31). 

 South Carolina. — Law prohibiting fire hunting for 3 years (No. 1299, p. 719). 



1787. [Tennessee]. — Act providing for payment in skins of salaries of State officers. 



" Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Franklin . . . that 

 from and after the first day of January 1788, the salaries of this Common- 

 wealth be as follows, to wit: His Excellency, the Governor, per annum 100 

 deer skins. His Honor the Chief Justice 500 deer skins. The Secretary to 

 his Excellency the Governor 500 raccoon skins," etc. 



1788. New York. — Deer law, close season Jan. 1 to Aug. 1; possession of green skins 



prima facie evidence of guilt; hunting deer with bloodhounds or beagles 

 (except in Suffolk County) prohibited (chap. 82). 



1789. South Carolina. — Law prohibiting fire hunting, and protecting does from 



Mar. 1 to Sept. 1. Captains of militia to read act to their companies every 

 6 months. (No. 1463, p. 121.) 



1790. Georgia. — First game law, prohibiting fire hunting. (Prince's Digest, p. 341.) 



1791. New York. — Law protecting heath hen in Queens and Suffolk Counties, Apr. 1- 



Oct. 5; partridge and quail in Queens, Kings, and New York, Apr. 1 to Oct. 5; 

 and woodcock in Queens, Kings, and New York, Feb. 20 to July 1 (chap. 9). 



1792. Virginia. — Law prohibiting fire hunting for deer (chap. 50, sec 1). 



1795. Delaware. — Lawreenacting prohibition of Sunday hunting (first law was enacted 

 in 1750). (Rev. 1829, p. 483.) 



1797. Vermont. — Amendment to the deer law changing the close season to Jan. 10 to 



July 1 (chap. 44), and protecting muskrats in June, July, and August (chap. 

 43). 



1798. New Jersey. — Laws prohibiting Sunday hunting (p. 329), and providing for 



flogging of slaves found hunting on Sunday (p. 307). 

 1801. Vermont. — Act repealing protection of muskrats passed in 1797 (p. 105). 



Virginia. — Law protecting deer from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1. (Shepherd's Stats., 

 vol. 2, p. 276.) 

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