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CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



forcement of Lacey Act, 1909; S7,000 for main- 

 tenance of bison and bird reservations, 1909; 

 S15,000 for Heyburn Park, Idaho, 1909; S5,000 

 for feeding elk, Wyoming, 1909, 1911; $20,000 

 for elk in Jackson Hole, Wyo., 1911. 



Arizona, Board of Fish Commissioners, 1881, juris- 

 diction extended to game, 1887; first game 

 law, 1887; last record of elk, 1901; Grand 

 Canyon Game Preserve, 1906; antelope law 

 extended by act of Congress, 1911. 



Arkansas, Sunday hunting prohibited 1855; non- 

 resident license, 1875; game and fish declared 

 property of the State, 1SS9; decisions in State v. 

 Mallory, 1904 (nonresidents); Wells Fargo Ex- 

 press Co. v. State, 1906 (export). 



Arrest without warrant, by members of Central As- 

 sociation, New Jersey, 1874. 



Artificial light, use in hunting deer prohibited, 

 Michigan, 1S87 (see also fire lighting and jack- 

 ing). 



Associations, Fowling and Fishing Association, Up- 

 per Township, Cape May County, N. J., 1S13; 

 New York Association for the Protection of 

 Game, 1844; Blooming Grove Park Associa- 

 tion, Pennsylvania, 1871; West Jersey Game 

 Protective Association, 1873-1S96; Massachu- 

 setts Fish and Game Protective Association, 

 1874; Central Association for Propagation and 

 Protection of Game, New Jersey, 1874; Cuvier 

 Club, Ohio, 1874; Delaware Game Protective 

 Association, 1879; act authorizing formation of 

 game protective associations, New Jersey, 1879; 

 Audubon Society, 1886; Boone and Crockett 

 Club, 1887; New York Zoological Society, 1895; 

 Game and Fish Protective Association Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, 1897; League of American 

 Sportsmen, 1898; California Game and Fish 

 Protective Association, 1900: North American 

 Fish and Game Protective Association, 1900; 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 1902; American Bison Society, 1905; Ameri- 

 can Game Protective Association. 1911. 



Audubon Societies, first society, New York, 1886; 

 revival in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, 

 1896; National Association organized, 1902, 

 incorporated, 1905; State society incorporated 

 with powers of game commission, North Caro- 

 lina, 1903; South Carolina, 1907. 



Automatic gun, prohibiting use in hunting game, 

 failure of bills in 9 States, 1906; in 16 States, 

 1907; passage of law, Pennsylvania, 1907; de- 

 cision sustaining constitutionality of law, 

 Pennsylvania, 1910. 



Automobile, use in shooting wild fowl prohibited, 

 Xorth Dakota, 1911. 



Bag limits (birds), Iowa, 1878; Maryland, 1910; (big 

 game) Maine, 1883; New York, 1886; -Michi- 

 gan, 1895; Georgia, 1911; half bag limit for 

 boys, Illinois, 1909. 



Baited hooks for capturing game, prohibited, Michi- 

 gan, 1897. 



Baiting-doves prohibited, Georgia, 1898; ducks pro- 

 hibited, Illinois, 1909; traps with big game 

 prohibited, Colorado, 1893; turkeys prohib- 

 ited, Pennsylvania, 1809; restrictions on bait- 

 ing waterfowl repealed, Illinois, 1911. 



Barnegat Bay, wildfowl shooting regulations; New 

 Jersey, 1879. 



Batteries prohibited, New York, 1839; New Jersey, 

 1852; Ohio, 1890; Michigan, 1897; in open water 

 in Currituck Sound, N. C, 1870, 1897; Barne- 

 gat Bay, N. J., 1879; licensed on Susquehanna 

 Flats, Md., 1872. 



Bayne bill, New York, 1911. 



Beagles prohibited in hunting deer, New York, 1788. 



Bears, black, close season, New York, 1904; 

 brown, close season, Alaska, 1902. 



Bibliography, Hallock's Bibliography for Sports- 

 men, 1880; New York Public Library List of 

 Works on Sport and Shooting, 1903. 



Big game, committee appointed by Congress to in- 

 quire into law for protecting, 1872; 

 use for baitingtraps prohibited, Colorado, 1893. 



Big guns prohibited, Virginia, 1832; Michigan (punt 

 or swivel) 1865; New York, 1866-69; North 

 Carolina (Currituck Sound), 1870; Maryland 

 (Susquehanna Flats), 1872; Wisconsin, 1887. 



Bills, etc., in Congress, Cole resolution, 1872; Hoar 

 bill, 1898; Lacey bill, 1897-1900; Teller bill, 

 1897; Shiras bill, 1904; Weeks bill, 1908. 

 In State legislatures, Blow bill defeated, Illi- 

 nois, 1895; Shea bill, New York, 1910; Silz 

 bill defeated, New York, 1906, 1907; spring 

 shooting bills defeated, New York, 1906,1911; 

 Massachusetts, 1911; North Dakota, 1911; 

 Wisconsin, 1911; Stuckenbruck bill defeated, 

 California, 1909. 



Bird day, Oil City, Pa., 1894; bill vetoed, Califor- 

 nia, 1907. 



Bird reservations, national, first, Florida, 1903; act 

 protecting birds, 1906; 26 reservations estab- 

 lished, 1909. 



Bison range (see National bison range). 



Black act (9 Geo. I, chap. 22, 1722), decision in State 

 D. Campbell, Georgia, 1808. 



Black bear, close season, New York, 1904. 



Blinds for capturing wild turkeys prohibited, Penn- 

 sylvania, 1869. 



Blinds prohibited in open water in Currituck Sound, 

 N. C, 1870; Wisconsin, 1887. 



Bloodhounds, prohibited in hunting deer, New 

 York. 1788. 



Blooming Grove Park Association, Pennsylvania, 

 1871. 



Blow bill, Illinois, 1895. 



Boards of county supervisors (see County super- 

 visors). 



Boards of fish and game commissioners (see Com- 

 missioners). 



Boards of ducking police (see Ducking police). 



Boats, pneumatic, prohibited, Michigan, 1897. 

 sail prohibited, New York, 1869; New Jersey 



(Barnegat Bay), 1879: Wisconsin, 1S87. 

 skiffs in hunting wildfowl prohibited in Acco- 



mac and Fairfax counties, Va., 1839. 

 sneak, prohibited in open water, Wisconsin, 



1887. 

 steam prohibited. New York, 1869; New Jersey 

 (Barnegat Bay), 1879; Wisconsin, 1887; Mich- 

 igan, 1897. 



Bonding game in close season, New York, 1902. 



Boobies or ruddy ducks, close season for ring shoot- 

 ing on Currituck Sound, N. C, 1899. 



Book of the Game Laws, Reynolds, 1890. 



Boone and Crockett Club organized, 1887. 



Brant shooting at night prohibited, New Jersey, 

 1859; close season, Nevada, 1861. 



