AMERICAN" GAME PROTECTION. 



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Storage of game, decision, Missouri, 1898; under 

 bond, New York, 1902; prohibited, Minne- 

 sota, 1905; Washington, 1909. 



Stuckenbruck bill (meadowlark), California, 1909. 



Sulphur, not to be used in smoking out rabbits, 

 Connecticut, 1897. 



Summer shooting (woodcock) prohibited, Ohio, 

 1857. 



Sunday, hunting prohibited, Delaware, 1750, 1795; 

 New Jersey, 1798; Tennessee, 1741, 1803; 

 Alabama and Mississippi, 1803; Ohio, 1805; 

 Indiana, 1807, 1817; Illinois, 1821; Minne- 

 sota, 1849; Arkansas, 1855; Iowa, 1855; 

 Florida, 1859; sailing to locate birds, North 

 Carolina, 1897. 



Suspension of law by county supervisors, Kansas, 

 1861. 



Suspension of open season, Vermont, 1908; Massa- 

 chusetts, 1909. 



Suydam, Charles, Fur, Fin, and Feather, 1868. 



Swan, close season, Nevada, 1861. 



Swivel guns (see Big guns). 



Tagging game, New York, 1911. 



Tame deer exempt, New Hampshire, 1816. 



Tariff Act, 1894, provision prohibiting entry of eggs 

 of game birds. (Compare Egg Act, 1902. ) 



Teller bill, Congress, 1S97. 



Tennessee, Sunday hunting prohibited, 1741, 1803; 

 salaries of State officers paid in skins, 1787; 

 game laws of 1729, 1738, 1745, 1766, repealed 

 1809; constitutional provision authorizing lo- 

 cal legislation, 1870; A. O. U . law, game law, 

 State warden, 1903; department of game, fish, 

 and forestry, 1905; attempt to depose State 

 warden, 1909; Reelfoot Lake fish and game 

 preserve, 1909; sale of robins and quail pro- 

 hibited, 1911. 



Territorial game and fish warden (see Warden). 



Texas, first game law (local), 1860; killing of last 

 buffalo, 1889; general game law including 

 A. O.U. law; repeal of county laws, 1903; 

 jurisdiction fish and oyster commissioner ex- 

 tended to game, 1907; nonresident license, 

 1907; resident license, 1909; public game pre- 

 serve, 1911. 



Training dogs on game birds in close season, pro- 

 hibited, Michigan, 1891. 



Trapping, Wisconsin (game birds), 1854; nonresi- 

 dent license, Arkansas, 1875. 



Traps (for deer) prohibited, New York, 1803; Michi- 

 gan, 1887; (for game), Wisconsin, 1887. 



Trespass, decision in case of Chew v. Thompson, 

 New Jersey, 1827 (trespass with guns); in 

 growing crops, Minnesota, 1864; on grounds 

 surrounding dwelling, New York, 1862, 1867; 

 on posted lands, New York, 1869; on posted 

 lands, District of Columbia, 1878; hunting on 

 highways prohibited, Kansas, 1886; hunting 

 in standing grain prohibited, Minnesota, 1887; 

 on bird reservations, 1906. 



Turkey buzzards protected, South Carolina, 1872; 

 Kansas, 1876; District of Columbia, 1878- 

 Virginia, 1879. 



Turkey pens prohibited (Perry County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 1840), 3 counties, Alabama, 1854. 



Tusk hunters convicted, Wyoming, 1907. 



Tusk hunting a felony, Wyoming, 1907. 



Uniform action in preventing spring shooting, Wis- 

 consin, 1893. 



Uniform open seasons, Idaho, July 1 to Feb. 1, 1864; 

 Colorado, Aug. 15 to Jan, 1, 1867; Michigan, 

 Sept. 1 to Jan. 1, 1869; Alabama, Sept. 1 to 

 Mar. 1 (Mobile County only), 1871; New 

 Mexico, Sept. 1 to May 1, 1880; Montana, 

 Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, 1905; big game, Wyoming, 

 Oct. 1 to 31, 1882; South Dakota, Oct. 1 to Nov. 

 30, 1897; game birds (except woodcock), Wis- 

 consin, Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, 1887. 



Uniformity in State legislation, committee ap- 

 pointed, Michigan, 1897. 



Unnaturalized foreign-born residents prohibited 

 from hunting or owning guns or rifles, Perm- 



Upland plover, close season, Rhode Island, 1846. 



Upper Peninsula, special season for deer, Michigan, 

 1887. 



Utah, first game law, 1872; fish and game warden, 

 1897; codification of game law, 1909. 



Vermont (close season on deer, 1779); close season on 

 muskrate, 1797-1801, 1812-29; protecting non- 

 game birds, 1851; fish and game league, 1890; 

 fish commission reorganized as fish and game 

 commission, 1892; fund contributed for pay- 

 ing claims on account of damage by deer to 

 crops, 1902; governor authorized to suspend 

 hunting season, 1908; reopening of doe season, 

 1909; doe law restored, 1911; appraisal of deer 

 on lands inclosed for parks, 1911. 



Vetoes, Act of Congress protecting buffalo, 1874; es- 

 tablishing bird day and a game commission, 

 California, 1907; New York, protecting gray 

 squirrels throughout the year, 1907; appro- 

 priating $20,000 for a buffalo herd in the Adi- 

 rondack Park, New York, 1907; allowing fruit 

 growers to destroy birds injuring their crops, 

 Oregon, 1907; game bill exempting warden 

 service from civil-service law, New Jersey, 

 1910. 



Virginia (close season for deer, 1699); close term for 

 deer, 1772-1776; prohibiting fire hunting, 1792; 

 close season for deer, 1801; law granting hunt- 

 ing privileges to owners of shores, 1819; short- 

 ening open season for deer, 1830; protecting 

 wildfowl by prohibiting night hunting or use 

 of big guns, 1832; exempting residents from 

 certain penalties in Act of 1832, 1833; exempts 

 ing residents from provision requiring warrants 

 for seizure of big guns, 1834; prohibiting use 

 of skiffs in hunting wildfowl in Accomac and 

 Fairfax counties, 1839; prohibiting nonresi- 

 dents from killing wildfowl below head of 

 tide water, 1841; amending Act of 1841 by 

 authorizing officers to seize boats, tackle, am- 

 munition and arms used in hunting wildfowl 

 illegally, 1842; running deer with dogs in close 

 season, 1856; decision in McCready v. Virginia, 

 1877; act protecting buzzards, 1879; nongame 

 birds, 1903. 



Wardens (first local, Massachusetts, 1739; deer 

 reeves, Massachusetts, 1764); fish wardens, 

 New Hampshire, 1809; moose wardens, Maine, 

 1852; game constable, New York, 1871; game 

 warden (town), Connecticut, 1883; game war- 

 den (State), Minnesota, 1887; fish and game 



