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1905. Oregon. — Acts prohibiting sale of practically all game (chap. 117) and fixing 



open season by days of the week (chap. 77). 

 South Carolina. — Provision for county game wardens (No. 489). 

 Tennessee. — Creation of the department of game, fish, and forestry in charge of 



a State warden, appointed for eight years (chap. 455). 

 Wisconsin. — General civil-service law applying the merit system to the game- 

 warden service as well as other departments of the State government (chap. 



363). 

 Wyoming. — Act creating a State game preserve south of the Yellowstone National 



Park (chap . 90) . Provision requiring license to photograph big game in winter 



(Rev. Stat., sec. 2117). 

 Incorporation of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 

 Organization of the American Bison Society. 

 Extensive feeding of game birds, especially in Illinois, Massachusetts, and 



Pennsylvania during winter of 1904-05 (Yearbook Dept. Agr., 1905, p. 615.) 



1906. Congress. — Act protecting birds on bird reservations (34 Stat., 536); establish- 



ment of the Grand Canyon Game Preserve, Arizona (34 Stat., 607); appropria- 

 tion of $15,000 for fencing the Wichita Game Preserve (34 Stat., 696). 



Arkansas. — Decision in case of Wells Fargo Exp. Co. v. State (96 S. W., 189), 

 construing nonexport law. 



District of Columbia. — Act of Congress prohibiting hunting except on the 

 Eastern Branch and on the west shore of the Potomac (34 Stat., 808). 



Massachusetts. — Laws prohibiting use of live decoys in Nantucket County 

 (chap. 292) and sale of imported ducks, quail, and prairie chickens in close 

 season (chaps. 301, 303, 304). Introduction of three bills to regulate keeping 

 of cats (all of which failed) . 



Mississippi. — Adoption of a general game law containing license, nonexport, 

 and nonsale provisions (Code, sees. 2323-2336). 



New York. — Defeat of the spring-shooting bill and so-called Silz bill permitting 

 sale of imported game in close season (Forest and Stream, LXVI, pp. 415, 753, 

 1906). 



Wyoming. — Incursion of TJte Indians from Colorado resulting in great destruc- 

 tion of game (Ann. Rept. State Game Warden, 1906, 617.) 



Introduction of bills to prohibit the use of automatic guns in hunting game in 

 eight States and the District of Columbia (all of which failed). 



1907. Alabama. — Adoption of a general game law including the A. O. U. "model 



law " for the protection of nongame birds, prohibiting sale and export, requir- 

 ing resident and nonresident licenses, establishing the elective office of State 

 game and fish commissioner, and repealing all local laws (No. 18). This law 

 stopped the last of the large shipments of quail for restocking purposes. 



California. — Adoption of the resident, nonresident, and alien license system 

 (chap. 206). 



Connecticut. — Adoption of a complete license system (chap. 153). 



Louisiana. — Decision in case of State v. Schwartz (44 S., 20), sustaining the con- 

 stitutionality of the law prohibiting sale of imported plumage. 



Massachusetts. — Provision requiring use of buckshot in killing deer (chap. 307). 



Michigan. — Addition of fire protection to the duties of State warden and increas- 

 ing salary to $3,000 (No. 264). 



Minnesota. — Act to prohibit the shooting of firearms within 3 miles of the cor- 

 porate limits of cities having a population of 50,000 or more (chap. 300). 



Missouri. — Law abolishing regular deputy wardens and repeal of many pro- 

 visions of the Act of 1905 (p. 277); and providing for calling a grand jury 

 annually in each county to investigate violations of the game law (p. 320). 



Montana. — Sale of Pablo herd of buffalo to Canadian Government, and transfer 

 of 410 head to Elk Island Park, Alberta (Byshe, 4th Ann. Rept. Am. Bison 

 Soc, p. 38, 1911). 



