102 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



CHANGES IN OREGON GAME LAWS 



Statutes Passed by the Last Session of the Legislature Become 



Effective the 22nd of May 



According to a law passed at the recent session of the legis- 

 lature, the terms of the present members of the Fish and Game 

 Commission will expire this month, and Governor Withycombe 

 will appoint a new commission to take office May 22. The new 

 law provides that four members are to be appointed by the 

 Governor. The terms of these men are to be one, two, three and 

 four years, so that hereafter one member of the commission is to 

 be appointed each year. Two members are to ba appointed from 

 that part of the state lying east of the Cascade Mountains, and 

 two are to be appointed from Western Oregon. The Governor 

 serves as Chairman of the Board. 



During the past two years women were required to have 

 licenses to hunt and angle, but the last session of the legislature 

 changed this law so that after May 22 no fishing and hunting 

 licenses will be required of women. 



A law was also passed granting free licenses to all veterans 

 of the Civil War to hunt and angle. Arrangements have been 

 made with the County Clerk of each county so that upon pre- 

 sentation of the proper credentials, a free license will be given all 

 Civil War Veterans after May 22. The bill originally included 

 all veterans of the Spanish American War, but this part was 

 eliminated from the original bill. 



The 1913 session of the legislature passed a law setting aside 

 six large areas in different parts of the state as game refuges. 

 Considerable objection has been made to two of these, so a law 

 was passed recently abolishing the Imnaha Game Refuge, which 

 was a large body of land situated in Wallowa, Union and Baker 

 Counties. 



The Capital Game Refuge was also abolished. This included 

 an area of land about eight miles square around the city of Salem. 

 It included the property of a number of people who objected 

 to being in the reserve. Although the Capitol Game Refuge is 

 abolished, yet under the law of 1913 setting aside all state land 

 as game refuges, there are still some two or three thousand 



