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1907. New Hampshire. — Provision requiring use of buckshot in hunting deer except 



in Carroll, Coos, and Grafton counties (chap. 130). 

 New York. — Defeat of the foreign game importation or Silz bill (Forest and 

 Stream, LXVIII, p. 895, June 8, 1907). 



Oklahoma. — Transfer to Wichita Game Preserve of herd of 15 buffalo presented 

 by the New York Zoological Society (Rept. Am. Bison Soc, p. 55, 1908). 



Pennsylvania. — Establishment of game refuges on State forest reserves (No. 

 64); law prohibiting use of automatic guns in hunting game (No. 244). 



South Carolina. — Incorporation of the Audubon Society with powers of a game 

 commission and provision for wardens (chap. 315). 



Texas. — Jurisdiction of fish and oyster commissioner extended to include game; 

 establishment of $15 nonresident license (chap. 379). 



West Virginia. — Adoption of the A. 0. U. "model law" for the protection of 

 nongame birds (chap. 57). 



Wyoming. — Conviction of noted tusk hunters in the Yellowstone National 

 Park. Act making head hunting and tusk hunting a felony (chap. 47). 



Memorial praying the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to dis- 

 courage the hunting of elk for tusks (House Joint mem. No. 1, p. 196). 



Discovery of quail disease ( Colibacillosis tetraonidarum) in birds from Ala- 

 bama, Kansas, and Oklahoma (Yearbook Dept. Agr., p. 595). 



Introduction of bills to prohibit use of automatic guns in hunting game in 17 

 States (all failed except that in Pennsylvania). 



Vetoes: California, bills establishing bud day and a game commission; New 

 York, protecting gray squirrels throughout the year and appropriating $20,000 

 for a buffalo herd in the Adirondack Park; Oregon, allowing fruit growers to 

 destroy birds injuring their orchards. 



1908. Congress.— Appropriation of S30,000 for land and $10,000 for fencing for National 



Bison Range in Montana (35 Stat., 267). 



Introduction of the Weeks bill (II. R. 22888) "To protect migratory game 

 birds of the United States." 



Alabama.— Decision in Hyde v. State (46 S., 489), upholding the law prohibit- 

 ing hunting on lands of another without written permission. 



Alaska. — General game law, including provisions authorizing governor to 

 appoint wardens and to issue licenses (nonresident, $50; alien, $100; shipping 

 moose, $150; shipping licenses, $5-$150) (35 Stat., 102). 



California. — Introduction of wild turkeys from Mexico (Biol. Surv. Cir. No. 80, 

 p. 22, 1911). 



Louisiana. — Adoption of the resident license system (No. 277). 



New Jersey. — Division of State into two districts and prohibition of spring 

 shooting in the northern counties (chap. 222). 



Kansas. — Act passed at extra session protecting deer and antelope for 10 years 

 (chap. 59). 



New York. — Codification of the entire game, fish, and forestry law and the 

 adoption of the $1 resident license (chaps. 130, 471). 



Vermont. — Authorizing the governor to suspend the hunting season in times of 

 drought (No. 13). Season suspended 17 days and deer season postponed two 

 weeks. 



Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York ex rel Hester- 

 berg v. People (211 U. S., 31), involving the right of the State to regulate the 

 sale of imported game. 



Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebr., containing 55,000 acres, practically 

 made a game refuge; by order of the President, the War Department prohib- 

 ited hunting on the reservation (Bird Lore, X, p. 144). 



Inauguration of the "More Game" movement by the Amateur Sport 



