SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



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C. F. EMERSON, 

 Chief Warden Pa. Div. 



"October 23 — Gabriel Mario, Union 

 county; brown thrush; $20 and costs. 



"October 23 — Anthony Tromontana, 

 Union county; brown thrush; $20 and 

 costs. 



"December 10 — Hubert Borzner, Mid- 

 dlesex county; Sunday hunting; 20 days 

 in jail. 



"D ecember 10 

 — Chas. Myers, Mid- 

 dlesex county; Sun- 

 day hunting; 20 days 

 in jail. 



'These arrests 

 were all made by Lo- 

 cal Warden C. M. 

 Hawkins, of Roselle, 

 who is also a State 

 Warden. In Decem- 

 ber, '99, I personally 

 appeared before Jus- 

 tice J. R. Evans, of 

 this place (Pompton 

 Plains), and swore 

 out complaint against 

 Louis Van Loon for 

 Sunday hunting. He was arrested by 

 Warden Kern, of Hudson county, and 

 fined $20." 



Under date of July 7, 1899, Mr. R. A. 

 Osborne, a League member at Rea, Fre- 

 mont county, Idaho, wrote me that 2 men 

 were endeavoring to secure a lease of cer- 

 tain State lands, bordering on Henry's 

 lake, in order that they might engage in 

 netting trout in the lake and shipping them 

 to market. I took this matter up with 

 the Secretary of State, at Boise, and check- 

 mated these men. In due course I re- 

 ceived a letter from the Governor stating 

 that he had instructed the Surveyor-Gen- 

 eral of the State to locate all lands adjoin- 

 Henry's lake, in the name of the 

 State, so that no one can occupy them 

 without a permit from the State. The 

 Governor assured me that during his in- 

 cumbency no permit would be given any 

 one to take trout from Henry's lake, or 

 from any other water in the State for com- 

 mercial purposes. 



In April last the California State Fish 

 Commission issued an order providing for 

 the destruction of 40,000 to 60,000 seals 

 and sea lions, which inhabit the California 

 coast in the neighborhood of San Fran- 

 cisco, because the fishermen claimed that 

 these animals were killing some of the food 

 fishes. The State Fish Commission em- 

 ployed a number of professional hunters 

 and sent them to the rocks with instruc- 

 tions to kill all the seals and sea lions 

 they could find. 



I immediately appealed to the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury, in the name of the 

 L. A. S., to stop this killing, and we 



brought so great an influence to bear on 

 him that he issued an order, through the 

 Superintendent of the Lighthouse Beard, 

 to stop all killing of seals on the light- 

 house reservations. This practically in- 

 cludes all the rocks and islands about the 

 Golden Gate which constitute the home 

 of these animals. Thus the League has 

 been instrumental in saving the many 

 thousands of these beautiful and interest- 

 ing creatures which have been a source 

 of pleasure and instruction to sight-seers 

 for 50 years. 



On January 15th last Mr. C. H. Stone- 

 bridge reported to me that August 

 Shultz, a restaurant keeper at 1467 

 Broadway, had the carcass of a deer hang- 

 ing in front of his place of business. I 

 at once informed Attorney Seymour and 

 Chief Warden Pond of the fact, and we 

 3 called on Mr. Shultz, seized the deer 

 and sent it to the Hahnemann Hospital. 



We told Mr. Shultz we should then take 

 him into court, but he pleaded ignorance 

 of the law and showed us a letter from 

 August Silz,, a wholesale game dealer at 

 85 Barclay street, stating that inasmuch 

 as this was a foreign deer, it could be ex- 

 hibited and sold without violating the New 

 York law. In view of this fact, we de- 

 cided not to prosecute Mr. Shultz. He, 

 however, signed a plea of guilty of a vio- 

 lation of law. 



We next called on Mr. Silz, and found 

 10 European deer and 29 Egyptian quails 

 exhibited in " nt of his place of business. 

 He claimed the right to expose and sell 

 these because they had been imported. 

 We went into court, 

 entered a complaint 

 against Mr. Silz, and 

 the court summoned 

 him to appear and 

 plead. At the pre- 

 liminary hearing Mr. 

 Silz and his attorney 

 claimed the New 

 York law did not ap- 

 ply to foreign game. 

 The court decided it 

 did, and Mr. Silz 

 was held for trial. 



District Attorney 

 Gardiner took 

 charge of the case, 

 and the League em- 

 ployed as special 

 counsel to assist Mr. 

 Seymour the Hon. John S. Wise. The 

 case was tried in the Criminal Court Feb- 

 ruary 15th, and was stubbornly contested 

 on both sides. The court found Mr. Silz 

 guilty, and he was fined $50. A civil ac- 

 tion was at once begun against him under 



PROF. M. J. ELROD, 



Chief Warden Mont. Div. 



