44 CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1909. Wisconsin. — First competitive oral examinations for position of deputy game 



warden held by Civil Service Commission. 



Wyoming. — Appropriation of $5,000 for purchase of feed for elk and other big 

 game (chap. 59). Memorials requesting Congress to grant certain lands for 

 winter refuges for big game (No. 2), and requesting the State of Idaho to create 

 a game refuge contiguous to the Wyoming State game preserve (No. 4) . 



Practical removal of antelope from the game list by the closing of the seasons 

 in Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming. 



1910. Congress. — Establishment of Glacier National Park, Mont. (36 Stat., 354). 

 Florida. — First decision of supreme court on game law, Harper v. Galloway (51 



S., 226), declaring local nonresident license law for Marion County inoperative 

 as to residents of Florida. 



Louisiana. — Reorganization of game commission (No. 265), and provision for 

 two State game preserves (No. 273). 



Maryland. — Uniform season for wildfowl (chap. 251), and establishment of 

 bag limits (chap. 337). 



Massachusetts.— First open season on deer for several years in five counties in 

 western part of the State (chap. 545); authorization of search without war- 

 rant (chap. 548). 



Mississippi. — Decision in State v. Hill (53 S. 411), declaring unconstitutional 

 the local ordinance of Itawamba County prohibiting hunting by nonresidents 

 except on their own land . 



Missouri. — Establishment of State game farm at Jefferson City; creation of 

 office of millinery expert. 



New York. — Close season on deer on Long Island for 3 years, repeal of special 

 buck law permitting bucks to be killed first 15 days in November, and pro- 

 hibition of spring shooting of brant for 3 years (chap. 657). 



Passage of the Shea plumage bill (to take effect July 1, 1911). This bill 

 prohibits possession or sale of aigrettes or other plumage of birds belonging to 

 same families as birds of New York (chap. 256). 



Oklahoma. — Decision of United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Rupert v. 

 United States (181 Fed., 87), sustaining the Oklahoma law and construing 

 the Lacey Act. 



Pennsylvania. — Decision in Commonwealth v. McComb (76 Atl., 100), sustain- 

 ing constitutionality of law prohibiting use of automatic guns in killing game. 



South Carolina. — Provision for appointment of a chief game warden (No. 293). 



Wyoming. — Transfer of 25 elk from Jackson Hole to Big Horn game preserve at a 

 cost of about $1,300 (Ann. Rept. State Game Warden, 1910, p. 7). 



Arrest of 23 Japanese poachers on Laysan Island, in the Hawaiian Bird Reserva- 

 tion. These men had destroyed nearly 300,000 birds during the summer and 

 autumn of 1909. They were brought to Honolulu by the revenue cutter 

 Thetis and later deported to Japan, and the plumage which they had col- 

 lected was confiscated. 



Duck disease (cholera or coccidiosis) prevalent locally in Utah, Colorado, and 

 California (Cir. 80, Biol. Surv., p. 15, 1911). 



First use of the aeroplane in hunting game birds on grounds of the Bolsa Chica 

 Club, Orange County, California (Forest and Stream, LXXV, p. 1047, Dec. 

 31, 1910). 



National Association Game Commissioners' convention in New Orleans (Am. 

 FieM, LXXIII, p. 169, Feb. 19, 1910). 



Vetoes: New Jersey, general game bill exempting warden service from civil- 

 service law. 



Publication of W. T. Homaday'e "Sportsman's Platform," containing 15 cardinal 

 principles affecting wild game and its pursuit (Field and Stream, Vol. XV, 

 p. 179, June, 1910). 



