AMERICAN" GAME PROTECTION. 



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New Jersey (hunting privilege, 1678; close season 

 on deer, 1722); Sunday hunting prohibited, 

 1798; incorporation of fowling and fishing as- 

 sociation, 1813; first protection for rabbits and 

 game birds, 1820; decision in case of Chew v. 

 Thompson, 1827 (trespass with guns); land- 

 owners authorized to arrest nonresidents 

 hunting on their lands, 1837; law extending 

 close seasons for woodcock, partridge, moor- 

 fowl, grouse, quail, and rabbits, 1838; general 

 revision of game laws, 1846; protection of 

 "small and harmless birds," 1850; prohibit- 

 ing open-water shooting, 1852; 5-year close 

 term on deer in three counties, 1853; night 

 shooting on Barnegat Bay, etc., prohibited, 

 1859; close term on prairie fowl, 5 years, 1866; 

 close term on ruffed grouse, 3 years, 1869; 

 West Jersey Game Protective Association, 

 1873; revision of game law and first protection 

 of squirrels, 1874; incorporation of Central 

 Association for propagation and protection of 

 game, 1874; act authorizing formation of game 

 protective associations, 1879; wildfowl shoot- 

 ing on Barnegat Bay, 1879; protecting non- 

 game birds used for millinery purposes, 1885; 

 decision in Allen v. Wyckoff, 1886 (nonresi- 

 dent licenses); division of State into districts, 

 1888, 1908; jurisdiction of commission of fish- 

 eries extended to game, 1894; spring shooting 

 prohibited in northern counties, 1908; veto of 

 bill exempting warden service from civil- 

 service law, 1910; plumage law, 1911. 



New Mexico, first game law, uniform season for all 

 game, 1880; sale of gams killed in Territory 

 prohibited, 1897; game and fish warden, 1903; 

 license system, 1909. 



New York (hunting privilege, 1629; first game law, 

 deer, 1705; upland game birds, 1708); close 

 seasons for deer and heath hens, 1785; prohi- 

 bition of purchase or sale of quail, partridge, 

 woodcock in close season (4 counties), 1837; 

 prohibition of use of batteries, 1839; deer law, 

 1844; organization of New York Association 

 for the Protection of Game, 1844; last record of 

 wild turkey, 1844; county supervisors author- 

 ized to make ordinances for protection of fish 

 and game, 1849 (in effect January 1, 1850); re- 

 turn to general law, 1859; general law, sale of 

 game birds in close season prohibited, wild 

 pigeons and nongame birds protected, tres- 

 passing prohibited, 1862; first license law in 

 United States (never in force), 1864; Fish, 

 Game and Forest League, 1865; big guns, 1866; 

 revision of game laws, 1867; proof of killing 

 game outside State defense for possession or 

 sale in close season, 1867; last great pigeon nest- 

 ing, 1868; hunting deer with dogs, close season 

 deer and moose (3 counties), 5 years, prairie 

 fowl 10 years, swivel guns, 1869; sailing, wild- 

 fowl shooting from boats propelled by sail or 

 steam, posted lands, 1869; exemption of im- 

 ported gameexcept quail, grouse, and venison, 

 1869; codification of game laws, 1871; county 

 supervisors authorized to pass ordinances to 

 protect birds, fish, and game, 1871; game con- 

 stable, 1871; publication of the game laws in 

 pamphlet form, 1873; decision in Phelps v. 



Racey, 1875 (sale of imported game); last great 

 pigeon roost, 1875; limit on deer, crusting, 

 hounding in part, 1886; first A. O. U. "model 

 law," with definition of game birds, 1886; sail- 

 ing for wildfowl or shooting from steamboats 

 1886; Boone and Crockett Club organized, 1887; 

 chief game and fish protector, 1888; Inter- 

 national fish and game conference, October 12, 

 1891; commissioner of fisheries replaced by 

 forest, fish, and game commission, 1895; New 

 York Zoological Society, 1895; prohibition of 

 jacking deer and shooting them in water, 

 1897-1902; decision in People v. Buffalo Fish 

 Co., 1900 (imported fish); moose and elk for 

 Adirondacks, 1901; provisions declaring law 

 applicable to imported game, and regulating 

 possession of game under bond, 1902; spring 

 shooting of waterfowl prohibited, 1903; shore- 

 birds, 1904; close season for black bear, 1904; 

 restocking Adirondacks with elk and moose, 

 1904; American Bison Society, 1905; firearms, 

 sale or gift to persons under 16, and carrying 

 by aliens in public, 1905; spring shooting bill 

 defeated, 1906; bills protecting gray squirrels 

 and appropriating $20,000 for buffalo in 

 Adirondacks vetoed, 1907; decision in New 

 York ex rel Hesterberg v. People, 1908 (sale 

 of imported game); codification of game law, 

 1908; authorizing governor to prohibit hunt- 

 inginforest preserve countiesduring droughts, 

 1909; decision in Dieterichf .Fargo, 1909 (deer 

 from private preserves) ; Shea plumage bill, 

 1910; close season for three years for deer on 

 Long Island, 1910; repeal of November "buck 

 law," 1910; Bayne bill, 1911; conservation 

 commission, 1911; Shea plumage law in effect, 

 1911. 



Night shooting (waterfowl) prohibited, Virginia, 

 1832; New Jersey (Barnegat Bay, etc.), 1859; 

 North Carolina, 1869; (shore birds), Massa- 

 chusetts, 1835; discharge of firearms on high- 

 way prohibited, Georgia, 1883. 



Nonexport law, Kansas, 1876; Florida, 1893; Mis- 

 souri, 1901. 



Nongame birds, Connecticut, 1850; New Jersey, 

 1850; Vermont, 1851; Massachusetts, 1855; 

 first comprehensive law, Kentucky, 1861; 

 New York, 1862; Michigan, 1865; West Vir- 

 ginia, 1869; protected, Maine, 1870; Indiana, 

 1873; Kansas, 1876; killing for millinery pur- 

 poses, New Jersey, 1885; Wisconsin, 1887; A. 

 O. TJ. "model law," New York, 1886; Florida, 

 1901; Kentucky, 1902; North Carolina, 1903; 

 Tennessee, 1903; Texas, 1903; Virginia, 1903; 

 Louisiana, 1904; Ohio, 1904; Missouri, 1905; 

 Alabama, 1907; West Virginia, 1907. 



Nonresident license, Florida, 1875; Michigan, 1895; 

 Minnesota, 1895; North Dakota, 1895; Wyo- 

 ming, 1895; Alabama, 1907; Texa", 1907. 



Nonresident license law sustained, New Jersey, 

 1886. 



Nonresidents (South Carolina, 1755); arrest by land- 

 owners, New Jersey, 1837; prohibited from 

 killing birds on Delaware Bay and River and 

 tributaries, Delaware, 1839; Virginia, 1841; 

 North Carolina (Currituck County), 1854; 

 noncitizens prohibited from hunting deer in 



