AMERICAN GAME PROTECTION. 21 



1802. Massachusetts. — Law protecting deer Jan. 1 to Aug. 1, permitting capture of 



deer in private parks or islands at any time and prohibiting hounding in 

 Barnstable county. (Laws 1780-1807, p. 70.) 



1803. Mississippi Territory (including Alabama). — First game law prohibiting fire 



hunting; each slave discovered fire hunting to receive 39 lashes and his mas- 

 ter to pay $10; captains of militia to have law read at head of their companies 

 twice every year (Digest 1798-1823, p. 368); and law prohibiting Sunday 

 hunting (Clay's Digest, p. 592). 



Tennessee. — Law prohibiting Sunday hunting (previous law in 1741). 



New York. — Law prohibiting setting traps or sticks or spears for deer, or watch- 

 ing for deer at night within 30 rods of a highway (chap. 97). 

 1805. Ohio. — Law prohibiting hunting on Sunday (chap. 43). 



1807. Indiana. — Law prohibiting Sunday hunting (chap. 37). 



1808. Georgia. — Decision in State v. Campbell (1 T. U. P. Charlton, 166) holding that 



the "Black Act," protecting game parks of England (9 Geo. I, c. 22, 1722) did 

 not become part of common law of Georgia. 



1809. New Hampshire. — Law authorizing towns of Newmarket, Stratham, and 



Exeter to appoint 3 fish wardens — one of the first authorizations for wardens 

 (Act June 27). 

 Tennessee.— Repeal of game laws of 1729, 1738, 1745, 1766 (chap. 94). 



1812. Vermont. — Act protecting muskrats between May 25 and Mar. 15 (chap. 105). 



1813. New Jersey. — Incorporation of the fowling and fishing association of Upper 



Township, Cape May County, the first incorporated association of the kind in 

 the State (Act Feb. 5). 



1816. New Hampshire. — Law prohibiting killing between Jan. 10 and Sept. 1 any 



deer except tame deer or deer kept in private parks (chap. 14). 



1817. Indiana. — Second law prohibiting hunting on Sunday by persons 14 years of 



age or over (chap. 57). 



1818. Massachusetts. — Law protecting partridge and quail from Mar. 1 to Sept. 1, 



and woodcock, snipe, lark, and robin from Mar. 1 to July 4 (chap. 103). 



1819. Virginia. — Law granting privilege of hunting to owners of shores on Atlantic 



Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, and rivers and creeks thereof (chap. 28). 



1820. New Jersey. — First protection for game birds and rabbits — woodcock from Feb. 



1 to June 25; moorfowl, grouse, partridge, quail, and rabbit from Feb. 1 to 

 Sept. 1 (p. 673). 

 New York. — Overseers of the poor in towns required to sue for penalties under 

 the deer law (chap. 37). 



1821. Illinois. — Law prohibiting Sunday hunting (p. 48). 



Massachusetts. — Law prohibiting shooting on salt marshes (except by land- 

 owners) between Mar. 1 and Sept. 1 (chap. 10). 



New Hampshire. — Law protecting beaver, mink, muskrat, and otter, May 30 

 to Nov. 1 (chap. 50). 



1822. Alabama. — Act to suppress fire hunting by increasing penalty to $50 (in effect 



Jan. 1, 1823— p. 57). See 1803. 



1827. New Jersey. — First decision of supreme court of State on the game law (Chew v. 



Thompson, 9 N. J. Law, 249) involving construction of Act of Dec. 21, 1771, 

 prohibiting trespass with guns. 



1828. Florida. — Law prohibiting fire hunting west of Suwanee River; captains of 



militia to have act read at head of their companies twice every year (approved 

 Jan. 1, 1828, 1827-28, p. 24); general prohibition of fire lighting (approved 

 Nov. 22, p. 48, sec. 106); slaves prohibited from fire hunting or using firearms 

 for killing game without weekly license from master or overseer (p. 174). 



1829. Vermont.— Act repealing muskrat law of 1812 (No. 19). This repeal was itself 



repealed in 1830. 



