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RECREATION. 



Seconded by Vice-Warden Thatcher, of 

 Ohio. 



Unanimously adopted. 



The following resolution was offered 

 by Senator Morgan, of Minnesota : 



Resolved, that the President of this 

 League be and he is hereby instructed to re- 

 quest the Governors of the States of Vir- 

 ginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, 

 Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Min- 

 nesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota 

 and Wisconsin, to call into convention the 

 Fish and Game Committees of their respec- 

 tive Legislatures, for the purpose of de- 

 vising a homogeneous code of fish and 

 game laws, and to present them to their re- 

 spective bodies for passage. 



Seconded by Chief Warden Long, of 

 Kentucky. 



Unanimously adopted. 



The following resolution was offered 

 by Mr. A. R. Bixby, Secretary-Treasurer of 

 the Minnesota Division : 



Whereas, the grey squirrel, in common 

 with many other wild animals, is threatened 

 with extermination in this country, and 



Whereas, we recognize the grey squirrel 

 as a beautiful, interesting, sociable creature, 

 easily killed and yet readily yielding to the 

 friendly advances and attentions of human 

 beings ; therefore, 



Resolved, That the League of American 

 Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 

 does hereby advise all sportsmen every- 

 where to cease hunting and killing grey 

 squirrels; to hereafter regard and treat 

 these animals as friends and pets; and we 

 hereby recomend that laws be enacted in all 

 States and territories where grey squirrels 

 exist forbidding the killing of same at any 

 time. 



Seconded by Chief Warden Blocksom, of 

 Arkansas. 



Unanimously adopted. 



The following resolution was offered by 

 Dr. Gropper, of Wisconsin : 



Whereas, the League of American Sports- 

 men is incorporated under the laws of the 

 State of New York, and 



Whereas, the laws of that State require 

 that associations incorporated there shall 

 annually elect a board of directors, who in 

 turn shall elect general officers of such as- 

 sociations ; and 



Whereas, the incorporators of the said 

 League of American Sportsmen did on 

 January 12, 1903, reelect the same board of 

 directors, who served during 1902; and 



Whereas, the said directors did reelect 

 the same general officers, who served during 

 the said year 1902; 



Now, therefore, be it resolved by the 

 League of American Sportsmen, in annual 

 meeting assembled, on this nth day of Feb- 

 ruary, 1903, that the said election of said 



board of directors and said general officers 

 is hereby approved. 



Seconded by Mr. Pond, of Pennsylvania. 



Unanimously adopted. 



The following resolution was offered by 

 Dr. Gropper, of Wisconsin : 



Resolved, that the League of American 

 Sportsmen hereby extends a vote of thanks 

 to the Commercial Club of St. Paul for the 

 use of its club room for holding its annual 

 meeting and banquet ; and to the St. Paul 

 City Council for its generous treatment of 

 League- delegates. 



Seconded by Mr. Thatcher. 



Unanimously adopted. 



There being no further business to trans- 

 act, the meeting adjourned at 6 o'clock 

 p. m. 



The annual dinner of the League was 

 given in the banquet hall of the Commercial 

 Club, and was attended by nearly 100 men, 

 prominent among whom were Governor S. 

 R. Van Sant, Colonel Geo. C. Hallum, of 

 his staff; Attorney General W. B. Douglas, 

 Hon. Lewis Betz, City Comptroller of St. 

 Paul, representing the Mayor; Dr. J. 

 Ohage, President of the City Board of 

 Health; Alderman Frank Arnold and sev- 

 eral members of the State Legislature. 



Governor -Van Sant, in an eloquent and 

 thrilling address, welcomed the League to 

 the State of Minnesota, and congratulated 

 its members on the great reformation this 

 body has effected in public sentiment on be- 

 half of the preservation of the wild animals, 

 the birds, the forests, and the fishes of this 

 country. 



He was followed by City Comptroller 

 Betz, who said that the Mayor, being unable 

 to attend the banquet on account of illness, 

 had delegated him to extend to the League 

 the freedom and the hospitality of the city 

 of St. Paul. 



Interesting speeches were also made by 

 several other guests and by a number of 

 League members. All the latter expressed 

 themselves as delighted- with the hospitable 

 treatment accorded them by the people of 

 St. Paul and of the State of Minnesota. 



On the morning of the 12th State Game 

 Warden Fullerton ordered several sleighs 

 and took the delegates to the State fish 

 hatchery, where the processes of hatching 

 and propagating trout were fully explained 

 and illustrated. All League members who 

 attended this meeting will ever regard it as 

 one of the delightful experiences of their 

 lives. 



A. C. Thatcher, Secretary Pro tern. 



FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 PRESIDENT 



The work of game protection has been 



pushed by this League during the past year 



as vigorously as heretofore, and while the 



results have not been all we could have 



wished, yet we have accomplished a great 



