22 CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1830. Maine. — First game law, protecting moose and deer from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1 



(chap. 471). 

 Virginia. — Deer law changed by closing month of August; close season, Jan. 1 to 



Sept. 1 (chap. 46). 

 Ohio. — Law protecting muskrats from May 1 to Oct. 15 (p. 9). 



1831. Massachusetts. — Law protecting heath hen from Mar. 1 to Sept. 1 (chap. 69). 



1832. Indian Territory. — First Federal game law, and the oldest one on the statute 



books, as it remained in force until the admission of Oklahoma in 1907. This 

 law prohibited capture of game by any persons other than Indians, except 

 for subsistence in the Indian country (R,. S., sec. 2137). 

 Virginia. — First law protecting wild fowl, by prohibiting night shooting on water 

 or use of big guns for killing wild fowl for sale (chap. 80). 



1833. Connecticut. — Towns authorized to make by-laws for regulating capture of 



birds (chap. 30). 

 Virginia. — Act amending Act of 1832 by exempting residents shooting wild fowl 

 for their own use from penalties, requiring warrants for seizure of big guns and 

 destruction of such guns (chap. 85). 



1834. Virginia. — Law further amending Act of 1832 by exempting residents from 



provision requiring warrants for seizure of big guns (chap. 76). 



1835. Massachusetts. — Law protecting plover, curlew, dough bird, or chicken bird 



from Apr. 20 to Sept. 1 at night only (chap. 136). 



1836. Massachusetts. — Prohibition of sale of marsh birds during close season. 



1837. Massachusetts. — Close season on heath hen for 4 years (chap. 170). 



New Jersey. — Law authorizing landowners to arrest nonresidents hunting on 



their lands and take them before a magistrate (p. 460). 

 New York. — Prohibition of purchase or sale of quail, partridge, or woodcock in 



close season in counties of New York, Kings, Queens, and Westchester (chap. 



288). 



1838. New Jersey. — Law extending close seasons for woodcock to July 5 (from Jan. 1 to 



July 5) and for partridge, moorfowl, grouse, quail, and rabbit to Nov. 1 (from 

 Jan. 10 to Nov. 1) (p. 216). 



1839. Delaware. — Law prohibiting nonresidents from killing or capturing wildfowl on 



the waters or marshes of Delaware Bay or Delaware River (chap. 216). 



New York. — "In 1838 [1839, chap. 173] a law was passed in this State, pro- 

 hibiting the use of batteries. For a short time it was respected — but the 

 gunners . . . defied it; at first shooting with masks, at the same time threaten- 

 ing to shoot the informer, should one be found. They finally laid aside their 

 masks, and the law became a dead letter, and has since been repealed." 

 [Laws 1840, chap. 77.] (Giraud, Birds of Long Island, p. 295, 1844.) 



Virginia. — Law prohibiting use of skiffs in hunting wildfowl at any time in 

 Accomac and Fairfax Counties except by owners of marshes hunting thereon 

 (chap. 80). 

 1840 Pennsylvania. — Noncitizens of State prohibited from hunting deer in Monroe, 

 Pike, or Wayne Counties (No. 117, sec. 6). 



1841. Delaware. — Law of 1839 extended to include all rivers, creeks, and lands 



bordering thereon in the State (chap. 303). 

 Maine. — Decision in case of Peables v. Hannaford (18 Me., 106) construing 



definition of open seasons. 

 Pennsylvania. — Provision prohibiting killing of squirrels, Jan. 1 to June 10, in 



certain townships of Chester, York, Lehigh, Delaware, and Montgomery 



Counties (Act No. 27, sec. 2). 

 Virginia. — Act prohibiting nonresidents from killing wildfowl in any counties 



below the head of tidewater (chap. 79). 



1842. Virginia. — Amendment to Act of 1841, authorizing officers to seize boats, tackle, 



ammunition, and arms used in illegally hunting wildfowl (chap. 109). 



