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1909. Congress. — Enactment of Criminal Code (to take effect Jan. 1, 1910), containing 

 important amendments to the Lacey Act (35 Stat., 1137). 



Appropriations: $7,000 for bison and bird reservations, and $9,420 for enforce- 

 ment of Lacey Act (35 Stat., 1051); $10,000 for protection of game in Alaska 

 (35 Stat., 990). 



Twenty-six national bird reservations; Mount Olympus National Monument 

 in Washington for elk; and Fire Island Reservation, in Alaska, for moose, estab- 

 lished by Executive orders. 



California. — Establishment of a game refuge on the Pinnacles National Forest 

 (chap. 428). Defeat of Stuckenbruck bill to remove protection from meadow- 

 larks. Provision prohibiting the use of any animal except a dog as a blind in 

 hunting waterfowl or shorebirds (chap. 395). 



Idaho. — Establishment of a game refuge on the Payette River (H. B. 242), and 

 appropriation of $15,000 from game fund for purchase of Heyburn Park, on 

 the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation (H. B. 186). 



Illinois. — Provisions prohibiting baiting of ducks and allowing only one-half bag 

 limit to boys under 12 (p. 236). 



Maine. — Authorizing governor to prohibit use of firearms in forests during 

 droughts (chap. 52), and prohibiting use of silencers (chap. 129). 



Massachusetts. — Adoption of a resident license system (chap. 262), authorizing 

 governor to proclaim close season in time of drought (chap. 421). 



Minnesota. — Making the Minnesota State forest reserve lands and parks and the 

 national forests game refuges (chaps. 171, 320). 



Missouri. — Adoption of a comprehensive game law, reenacting many of the 

 provisions of the law of 1905, and increasing the nonresident license fee from 

 $15 to $25 and the resident license fee from $2.50 to $5 (p. 519). 



Montana. — Completion of National Bison Range in Montana, on which were 

 placed 37 buffalo donated by the American Bison Society (3d Ann. Rept. 

 Am. Bison Soc, p. 1, 1910). 



New Jersey. — Open season for deer after a continued close term of ten years 

 but hunting deer with rifles, or shotguns smaller than No. 12, prohibited 

 (chap. 187). 



New Mexico. — Adoption of a resident and nonresident license system (chap. 83). 



New York. — Decision in the case of Dieterich v. Fargo (87 N. E., 518), involving 

 the right to sell deer raised in captivity. Law authorizing governor to pro- 

 hibit hunting in forest-reserve counties during droughts (chap. 474). 

 North Carolina. — Passage of 79 game laws, all but two, local acts, the maximum 

 number in any one State in one year. 



North Dakota. — Law prohibiting use of silencers (chap. 122); prohibiting spring 

 shooting, and creating game and fish board of control (chap. 128). 



Pennsylvania. — Prohibiting unnaturalized foreign-born residents from hunting 

 in the State or owning guns or rifles (No. 261). 



Tennessee. — Attempt to depose the State warden by making the commissioner 

 of agriculture ex officio warden under the Langford bill (chap. 519), which 

 was declared unconstitutional (Acklen v. Thompson, 126 S. W., 730). Pro- 

 vision for acquisition of Reelfoot Lake as a fish and game preserve (chaps. 

 371, 463, 534). 

 Texas. — Act passed at extra session providing for resident license (chap. 27). 

 Utah. — Codification of the game law, repealing protection for does, reducing the 

 nonresident license fee to $5, and establishing a $100 alien license (chap. 53). 

 Vermont. — Law permitting the killing of does after a continuous protection of 



44 years (No. 146). 

 Washington. — Provision prohibiting use of silencers (Crim. Code, sec. 265). 



General game law passed at the extra session containing a prohibition of 

 the storage of game (ext. sess., chap. 12). 



