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CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



Hounding in close season, Virginia, 1856; at any 

 season, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 

 1802; New York, 1869: Indiana, 1879; New 

 York (in part), 1886; Michigan, 1887; Wash- 

 ington, 1890. 



Hunting; for the various forms of hunting prohib- 

 ited in certain States, see the following head- 

 ings: Baited hooks; baiting doves; bull hunt- 

 ing; bullets; camp hunting; decoys; dogs; 

 explosives; ferrets; fire hunting; ground; 

 guides (without); hide hunting; hounding; 

 ice; jacking; night hunting; open-water shoot 

 ing; poisons; ring shooting; set guns; snow 

 hunting; sulphur; Sunday hunting; water. 



Hunting accidents, Maine, 1901; Michigan, 1903, 1911; 

 Minnesota, 1905. 



Hunting clubs, Blooming Grove Park Association, 

 Pennsylvania, 1871. 



Hunting permission law, Florida, 1866. 



Hunting on lands without permission, Delaware, 

 1721; without written permission, Alabama 

 (9 counties), 1891; Indiana, 1891; North Caro- 

 lina (12 counties), 1899. 



Hunting game for sale prohibited, Wyoming, 1S90. 

 (See Market hunting.) 



Hunting privileges, New York, 1629; Massachu- 

 setts, 1647; New Jersey, 1678; owners of 

 shores, Virginia, 1819. 



Ice, killing deer on ice prohibited, Wisconsin, 1897. 



Idaho, first game law (uniform season), 1864; pro- 

 tection of eagles, 1879; fish and game warden, 

 1899; State game preserve, 1911. 



Illinois, Sunday hunting prohibited, 1821; first 

 game law, 1853; game in captivity, personal 

 property, 1877; decisions in Magner v. People 

 1881 (sale of imported game, game the prop 

 erty of the State), and American Express Co 

 v. People, lSOO(transportation); game warden, 

 1895; decision in Merritt v. People, 1897 (sale 

 of imported game); game commissioner, 1 

 decision in In re Eberle, 1899 (nonresident 

 license); prohibition of sale of waterfowl 

 killed in State, 1903; decision in Cummings 

 v. People, 1904 (nonresident license); State 

 game farm, 1905; decision in Schulte v. 

 Warren, 1905 (hunting on overflowed lands); 

 prohibiting baiting for ducks, 1909; boys bag 

 limit, 1909; repealed, 1911; close term for 

 woodcock, open season for prairie chicken, 

 abolishing State game fund, 1911. 



Imported game, exempt, New York, 1869. 



Incorporation, Fowling and Fishing Association, 

 New Jersey, 1813; National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 1905. 



Indiana, Sunday hunting law, 1807; first game law, 

 1857; netting quail and prairie chickens, 1867; 

 nongame bird law, 1873; hounding prohibited, 

 isrii; nongame birds, 1891; definition of game 

 birds, 1891; written permission, 1891; com- 

 missioner of fisheries and game, 1S99; authori- 

 zation of officers of other states, 1S99. 



Indian raid, Wyoming, 1906. 



Indian Territory, first game law, 1832. 



Insectivorous birds protected, Connecticut, 1850; 

 New Jersey, 1850; Georgia, 1893. (See also 

 Nongame bird.) 



Interference with hunting prohibited on Currituck 

 Sound, N. C, 1897. 



International fish and game conferences, New York 

 City, October 12, 1891, and Detroit, Mich., De- 

 cember 20-21, 1S91. 



Interstate commerce in game, Lacey Act, 1900. 



Introduction, California Valley quail in Washing- 

 ton, 1857; bobwhite in Utah, 1871; bob- 

 white in Idaho, 1875; European quail in New 

 England, 1879; ringneck pheasants in Oregon, 

 1881; English pheasants in Georgia, 1887; elk 

 in New York, 1901; moose in New York, 1901; 

 wild turkeys in California, 1908. 



Investigation of game commission, California, 1911. 



Iowa, Sunday hunting prohibited, 1855; first game 

 law, 1S57; shipment of game birds restricted, 

 1874; export prohibited, 1878; first bag limit, 

 1878; fish and game warden, 1897. ' 



Jacking deer prohibited, Michigan (artificial light), 

 1887; New York, 1897. 



Jack rabbit, close term, Delaware, 1885. 



Kansas, first game law, county commissioners may 

 proclaim act i noperative, 1861 ; nongame birds 

 protected, export prohibited, 1876; decision 

 in State v. Saunders, 1877 (export); trespass 

 law, 1886; prohibiting sale of protected birds, 

 1886; license system, 1905; State game warden, 

 1905; extra session act protecting deer and ante- 

 lope,1908; revision of game law, 1911; warden's 

 office under supervision of university, 1911. 



Kentucky, first game laws for game and nongame 

 birds, 1861; A.O.U. "model law," 1902; county 

 game wardens, 1904; reciprocal license, 1904. 



Lacey Act, introduced 1897, passed, 1900; first de- 

 cision, United States v. Smith, Pennsylvania, 

 1902; amendment, 1909; construction, Rupert 

 v. United States, Oklahoma, 1910. 



Lark, close season, Massachusetts, 1818; protected 

 all the year, Connecticut, 1850; New Jersey, 

 1850; bill removing protection defeated, Cal- 

 ifornia, 1909. 



Launches, use of naptha or steam, prohibited in 

 hunting waterfowl, Ohio, 1890. 



Law of Field Sports, Smith, 1886. 



Lay days (see Rest days). 



Laysan Island, destruction of birds, 1910. 



League of American Sportsmen organized, 1898. 



License fee, nonresident, lowest $5, Utah, 1909; non- 

 resident, highest $150, moose license, Alaska, 

 1908; nonresident pigeon netting, $50, Penn- 

 sylvania, 1878; reciprocal, New York, 1900; 

 Tennessee, 1903; Kentucky, 1904; resident, 

 lowest 25 cents, Minnesota, 1899; resident, 

 highest $5, Missouri, 1909. 



License law, adopted first, in the United States, 

 New York, 1864; Arkansas, hunting ami trap- 

 ping, 1875; Michigan, Minnesota, North Da- 

 kota, Wyoming, 1895; Wisconsin, 1897; 

 Maine, 1903; Louisiana, 1904; Kansas, 1906; 

 California, 1907; Connecticut, 1907; Texas 

 1907; Alaska, 1908; New Mexico, 1909. 



License law, alien, Pennsylvania, 1903; Massachu- 

 setts, 1905; market hunting, Arkansn 

 Tennessee, 1903; photographing big game, 

 Wyoming, 1905; pigeon netting (nonresident), 

 Pennsylvania, 1878; reciprocal, Minnesota, 

 1895; Tennessee, 1903; Kentucky. 1901; guides 

 (registry), Maine, 1897; Wyoming, 1899. 



Licking Reservoir, a public park and game pro- 

 serve, Ohio, 1894. 



