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CHEONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



three counties, Pennsylvania, 1840; required 

 to obtain $10 license to hunt or trap in Arkan- 

 sas, 1875; prohibited from hunting game for 

 sale or export, Missouri, 1877; required to ob- 

 tain $50 license to net pigeons, Pennsylvania, 

 1878; prohibited from hunting in State, Mis- 

 souri, 1879; prohibited from shooting afloat in 

 Currituck Sound, N. C, 1897; prohibited from 

 hunting in Louisiana, 1902; permitted to 

 hunt under license, Louisiana, 1904. 



North Carolina (close season on deer, 1738); fire hunt- 

 ing prohibited, 1777, 1779, 1784; nonresidents 

 prohibited from killing wildfowl in Currituck 

 County, 1854; fire hunting wildfowl prohib- 

 ited in 6 counties, 1869; big guns, batteries, 

 blinds, Currituck Sound, 1870; gamekeepers, 

 Currituck County, 1891; rifles prohibited on 

 Core Sound, 1893; wildfowl, CurrituckCounty, 

 1897; local legislation (extreme), 1897; game- 

 keepers, use of decoys and ring shooting 

 boobies on Currituck Sound, 1899; written 

 permission laws in 12 counties, 1899; killing 

 deer illegally a felony in parts of Mitchell 

 County, 1901; A. O. U. "model law," 1903; 

 Audubon Society incorporated with powers of 

 a game commission, 1903; killing deer in water 

 prohibited, 1905; maximum number local 

 laws, 1909. 



North Dakota, first game law, 1875; licenses, 1895; 

 State game warden, 1895; district wardens, 

 1903; prohibiting spring shooting and use of 

 silencers, 1909; game preserves, 1911; prohibit- 

 ing use of automobiles or rifles in shooting 

 wildfowl, 1911. 



Officers of other states authorized to arrest game 

 law violators in Indiana, 1899. 



Ohio, Sunday hunting prohibited, 1805; close sea- 

 son on muskrats, 1830; close season on game, 

 1857; Society for Protection of Game and 

 Fish, 1871; Cuvier Club, 1874; commission of 

 fish and game, 1886; Licking Reservoir a pub- 

 lic park, 1894; decision in Roth v. State, 1894 

 (sale of imported game); codification of game 

 law, shorebirds on game list, shooting quail 

 and doves on the ground, search without 

 warrant, 1904. 



Oklahoma, first game law, 1890; game and fish 

 warden, 1899; Wichita game refuge estab- 

 lished, 1905; instruction concerning birds, 

 1905; decision in Rupert v. United States, 

 1910(Lacey Act). 



Open seasons, definition, Peables v. Hannaford, 

 Maine, 1841. 



Open-water shooting prohibited, New Jersey, 1852; 

 batteries or blinds in Currituck Sound, N. C, 

 1870. 



Opossum, close season, Georgia, 1897. 



Ordinances (town by-laws), Connecticut, 1833; 

 county, New York, 1849 and 1871; Kansas, 

 1861; Mississippi, 1871; Louisiana (parish), 

 1896; California, 1897. 



Oregon, first game law, 1872; prohibiting killing 

 deer or elk for hides, horns, or hams. 1N74; 

 first importation ring-necked pheasants, 1881; 

 close season on pheasants 5 years, 18S2; game 

 and fish protector, 1893; memorial to Congress 

 to protect eggs of wildfowl in Alaska, 1895; 



snow hunting, 1898; sale prohibited, 1905; 

 season defined by days of week, veto of bill 

 allowing fruit growers to destroy birds, 1907; 

 game commission, 1911; game refuges, 1911. 



Overseers of poor to sue for penalties under the deer 

 law, New York, 1820. 



Owl protected, New Jersey, 1850; Kentucky 

 (screech owl), 1861. 



Owner of dog killing deer in close season guilty of 

 violating law, New York, 1844. 



Pablo herd of buffalo sold to Canadian Government 

 1907. 



Packages of game to be marked to show contents, 

 etc., Colorado, 1899; Wisconsin, 1899; Lacey 

 Act, 1900. 



Partridge in New England and New York (see 

 Ruffed grouse). 



Partridge in the South (see Quail). 



Partridge (close season, New York, 1708); Massa- 

 chusetts, 1818; New Jersey, 1820. 



Park, national, see National park. 



Park, State, see State parks and game preserves. 



Payette River, game refuge, Idaho, 1909. 



Pen for catching wild turkeys prohibited, Alabama 

 (3 counties), 1854. 



Penalties. Small, for violating Sunday hunting 

 law, 50 cents to $2, Indiana, 1807; large, 

 (for killing elk, $100 to $500, Oregon, 1898; 

 for killing deer, $500, Connecticut, 1905); 

 for shooting human being by mistake for a 

 deer, $1,000 or not more than 10 years impris- 

 onment, Michigan, 1903; repealed, Michigan, 

 1911. 



Pennsylvania, constitutional privilege of hunting, 

 1776; noncitizens of State prohibited from 

 hunting deer in Monroe County, 1840; close 

 season on squirrels in 5 counties, 1841; hunt- 

 ing deer with dogs prohibited in Jefferson 

 County . 1849; close season, rail and reedbirds, 

 protection insectivorous birds, 1859; close sea- 

 son on squirrels in 1 1 counties, 1806; trapping, 

 capture of quail for preservation over winter, 

 1809; 3-year close season for quail (Berks 

 County only), 1870; incorporation Blooming 

 Grove Park Association, 1871; general revision 

 of game law, wild pigeon, nonresident pigeon 

 license, 1878; rest days, 1883; removing pro- 

 tection from English sparrow, 1883; prohibit- 

 ing spring shooting, 1883; A. O. U. law u iih 

 definition of game birds, 1889; decision in 

 Comm. v. Wilkinson, 1S91 (sale of imported 

 game); board of game commissioners, 1895; 

 Audubon Society, 18%; first decision on Lacey 

 Act, United States v. Smith, 1902; first alien 

 license law, 1903; game refuges, 1907; pro. 

 hibiting use of automatic guns in hunting 

 game, 1907; unnaturalized foreign-born resi- 

 dents prohibited from hunting or owning 

 guns or rides, 1909; decision in Comm. v. 

 McComb, sustaining the constitutionality of 

 the automatic gun law, 1910. 



Permission required, to hunt on lands of another 

 Feb. 1-Sept. 1, Rhode Island, 1S4C; to enter 

 upon growing crops, Minnesota. 1864; to hunt 

 on inclosed lands of another, Florida, 1866. 

 Written (see Written permission). 



