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CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



Migratory birds, bag limits, snipe and woodcock, 

 Iowa, 1878. 

 Close seasons, woodcock, New York, 1791; snipe, 

 Massachusetts, 1818; ducks, Rhode Island, 

 1846; upland plover, Rhode Island, 1846; 

 plover and curlew, Massachusetts, 1849; goose 

 and swan, Nevada, 1861. 

 Close terms, swan, Wyoming, 1899; woodcock, 



Oregon, 1901; wood duck, Louisiana, 1904. 

 Federal protection, Shirasbill, 1904; Weeks bill, 

 1908. 



Millinery expert, Missouri, 1910. 



Millinery provisions, New Jersey, 1885; Wisconsin, 

 1S87; California, 1895; Massachusetts, 1897, 

 1898. 



Militia, captains to read game law to their com- 

 panies, South Carolina, 1789; Mississippi, 1803; 

 Florida, 1828. 



Minnesota, Sunday hunting prohibited, 1849; first 

 game law, 1858; permission required to enter 

 upon growing crops, 1864; setting trap or 

 spring guns, 1869; export, 1871; publication of 

 game law in April annually, 1871; game war- 

 den, 1887; prohibiting hunting In standing 

 grain, 1887; minors under 14 prohibited use 

 of firearms, 1889; board of fish and game com- 

 missioners, 1891; decision in State D.Rodman, 

 1894 (possession in close season); nonresident 

 license, 1895; resident license, 1899; decision in 

 State v. Poole, 1904 (large fine); caribou re- 

 moved from game list, 1905; hunting accidents 

 due to careless handling of firearms, 1905; 

 storage of game, 1905; shooting within 3 miles 

 of limits of cities of 50,000, 1907; game refuges, 

 1909. 



Minors, prohibited to use firearms, Minnesota, 1889; 

 New York, 1905; half bag limit, Illinois, 

 1909. 



Mississippi, first game law (fire hunting), 1803; 

 county boards of police to regulate preserva- 

 tion of game, 1856; county supervisors to regu- 

 late protection of game, 1871; A. O. U."mo'!cl 

 law,'' 1004; general game law, 1906; decision in 

 State v. Hill (county ordinance), 1910. 



Missouri, first game law, 1851; decision in 



Randolph, 1876 (sale of imported game); non- 

 residents prohibited from selling game, 1877; 

 nonresidents prohibited from hunting, 1879; 

 game and fish warden, 1S95; decision in llag- 

 gerty v. St. Louis Ice Mfg. Co., 189S (storage); 

 nonexport law, 1901; general game law, in- 

 cluding A. O. U. law, and prohibition of sale 

 or export, 1905; regular deputy wardens abol- 

 ished, 1907; comprehensive law, 1909; milli- 

 nery expert appointed, 1910; State game farm, 

 1910. 



Model law for protection of nongame birds (see 

 A. O. U. "model law" and Nongame birds). 



Montana, first game law, 1S70; sale of all protected 

 game prohibited, 1897; board of game and fish 

 commissioners replaced by warden, 1901 : uni- 

 form season, 1905; sale of Pablo herd of buf- 

 falo, 1907; State game preserves, 1911. 



"More Game "movement, inaugurated by Amateur 

 Sportsman, 190S. 



Motor boats (see Launches). 



Moose, close season, Maine, 1830; last in Adiron- 

 dacks, New York, 1861; close term 5 years, 3 

 counties Long Island, New York, 1869; Maine, 

 1878-80. 



Moose refuge, Fire Island, Alaska, 1909. 



Mountain goat, close season, Nevada, 1861. 



Mountain sheep, close season, Nevada, 1861; close 

 term, Cal., 1883; Utah, 1886. 



Mount Olympus National Monument, Washington, 

 established 1909. 



Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, estab- 

 lished 1899. 



Muskrat, close season, Vermont, 1797-1801, 1812-29; 

 New Hampshire, 1821; Ohio, 1830. 



National Association of Audubon Societies organ- 

 ized, 1902; incorporated, 1905. 



National Association of Game and Fish Wardens 

 organized, 1902; convention, New Orleans, 

 1910. 



National bird reservation, first, Pelican Island, Fla., 

 1903; act prohibiting trespass on, 1906; 26 reser- 

 vations established, 1909. 



National bison range, Montana, appropriation, 

 1908; transfer buffalo, 1909. 



National game preserves, Wichita, Oklahoma, 1905; 

 Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1906. 



National military parks, act prohibiting trespass, 

 1897. 



National military reservation (Fort Niobrara, 

 Nebr.), a game refuge, 1908. 



National monument, Mount Olympus, Wash., 1909. 



National parks, Yellowstone, Wyo., 1872 (protec- 

 tion of game, 1894); General Grant, Cal., 1S90; 

 Sequoia, Cal., 1890; Yosemite, Cal., 1890; 

 Mount Rainier, Wash., 1899; Glacier, Mont., 

 1910. 



Nebraska, first game law, 1860; constitutional pro- 

 vision prohibiting local game laws, 1872; gen- 

 eral revision of game law establishing game 

 commission, licenses, and declaring game the 

 property of the State, 1901; decision in Me- 

 ConnclU. McKillip, 1904 (confiscation of guns); 

 Fort Niobrara Military Reservation practic- 

 ally made a game refuge by order prohibiting 

 hunting thereon, 1908. 



Nests protected (game birds), Connecticut, 1842! 

 (nongame birds) Connecticut, 1850, Vermont, 

 1851; Pennsylvania, 185S; Kentucky, 1861. 



Nets for capturing game prohibited, Wisconsin, 

 1887. 



Netting quail and prairie chickens prohibited, In- 

 diana, 1867. 



Nevada, first game law, 1861; game laws to be read 

 in public schools, 1901; board of supervisors 

 authorized to change seasons, 1903. 



New Hampshire (first game law, 1741; appointment 

 of two persons to enforce deer law and search 

 for deer unlawfully in possession, 1741); pro- 

 tecting deer, 1778; towns of Newmarket, 

 Stratham, and Exeter authorized to appoint 3 

 fish wardens, 1809; close season on deer, 1816; 

 on beaver, mink, muskrat, and otter, 1821; 

 decisionin Aldrich v. Wright, 1873 (fur-bearing 

 animals); board of fish and game commis- 

 sioners, 1878; establishment of Corbin herd of 

 buffalo, 1890; requiring use of buckshot in 

 killing deer, 1907. 



