36 CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1897. Congress. — Introduction of the original Lacey bill in the House on July 1, and 

 the Teller bill in the Senate on July 2, to prohibit illegal export of big game 

 from Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. 

 Act preventing trespassing on National Military Parks (29 Stat., 621). 



California. — Provision in county-government act authorizing boards of super- 

 visors to shorten open seasons for fish and game (chap. 277, sec. 25, sub. 28). 



Colorado. — Destruction of the Lost Park herd of buffalo; the last wild buffalo 

 in the United States outside the Yellowstone National Park. (Am. Field, 

 LXXIII, p. 273, 1910.) 



Connecticut. — Provision prohibiting use of sulphur in smoking out rabbits 

 (chap. 109). 



District of Columbia. — Organization of Game and Fish Protective Association. 

 Decision in the case of Javins v. U. S. (11 App. D. C, 345), sustaining the 

 law regulating sale of imported game. 



Florida. — First warden law, providing for county wardens (chap. 4563). 



Georgia. — Close season for opossums, Mar. 1 to Oct. 1 (No. 166). 



Illinois. — Decision in the case of Merritt v. People (48 N. E., 325). 



Iowa. — Creation of the office of State fish and game warden (Code 1897, sec. 2539). 



Maine. — Law requiring guides to register with commissioners of inland fisheries 

 and game (chap. 262). 



Massachusetts. — Law prohibiting use of birds for millinery purposes (chap. 

 524). 



Michigan. — Concurrent resolution providing for a committee of one senator and 

 two representatives to act with State game warden and chairman of board of fish 

 commissioners to secure uniform legislation in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, and Illinois (p. 446). 



Acts prohibiting the killing of wildfowl from any floating device propelled 

 by steam, gas, naphtha, oil, or electricity (Act 83, sec. 1) ; or by use of floating 

 or stationary batteries or mines or pneumatic boats (Act 159, sec. 15); or the 

 killing of any game birds with deadfalls, baited hooks, drugs, chemicals, or 

 explosives (Act 159, sec. 16). (For description and figure of a pneumatic boat 

 see Am. Field, XLIV, p. 124, Aug. 3, 1895.) 



Montana. — Penalty for killing buffalo, moose, and other game protected through- 

 out the year, two years in State prison, thus making the offense a felony 

 (H. B. 123, sec. 1). 



Sale of all protected game prohibited, one of the first laws of the kind (p. 

 253, sec. 19). 



New Mexico. — Act prohibiting sale of game killed in the Territory (Comp. 

 Laws, p. 394, sec. 1362). 



New York. — Law prohibiting for five years jacking and killing deer in water. 



North Carolina. — Extreme type of local legislation: "Act to allow N. W. Craft 

 to collect birds on his own premises at any time of the year" (Pub. Laws, 

 chap. 95). 



Comprehensive law for wildfowl in Currituck County; noncitizens of the 

 State prohibited from hunting from any box, battery, or float not on land; 

 rest days provided ; all persons prohibited from rowing or sailing on Sunday 

 to locate birds for future day; unlawful for any hired person to sail around 

 or interfere with a citizen shooting (chap. 291). 



South Dakota. — Comprehensive law protecting big game. Nonresidents pro- 

 hibited from hunting big game; year 1900 and each fifth year thereafter 

 closed; young protected indefinitely and females until Oct. 1, 1901; uniform 

 open season in October and November except as noted (chap. 66). Repealed 

 1899 (chap. 91). 



Utah. — Creation of the office of State fish and game warden (chap. 46). 



