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1911. Washington. — Acts prohibiting aliens from owning guns except under license 

 and consular certificate (chap. 52); and establishing a State game preserve 

 on Puget Sound near Tacoma (chap. 84). 



West Virginia.— Repeal of the resident license and the protection given rabbits 

 (chap. 47). 



Wisconsin. — Act requiring hunting license fees to be turned into the general 

 fund of the State and limiting the expenses of the game department to the 

 amount received from licenses and sale of confiscated game (chap. 527). 



Wyoming. — Establishment of a State game commission comprising the governor, 

 secretary of state, and auditor of state (chap. 66); appropriation of $5,000 

 for preservation of game from starvation (chap. 3); memorial requesting appro- 

 priation from the Federal Government for preserving game in Jackson Hole 

 (House Joint mem. No. 1). 



Transfer of small herds of elk from Jackson Hole to the National Bison Range, 

 Montana, and the Wichita Game Preserve, Oklahoma. 



Defeat of spring-shooting bills in Massachusetts, New York, North Dakota, and 

 Wisconsin. 



Organization of American Game Protective and Propagation Association with 

 endowment fund provided by manufacturers of guns and ammunition. 



Shipment of 3 buffalo, a bull and 2 cows, from the Corbin preserve, New Hamp- 

 shire, to Peru, as a nucleus of the first herd of buffalo in South America (Ameri- 

 can Field, Vol. LXXV, p. 285, Apr. 1, 1911). 



