16 BULLETIN 22. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
South Dakota. — Five acts: Creating a State game and fish commission to consist of 
the governor, attorney general, and the State game warden, and prodding for the 
employment of one clerk, three assistant salaried wardens, and five assistant per 
diem game wardens supplanting the county game-warden system . and providing 
rewards tor informers ch . 223 : establishing a State game preserve in Custer County 
and appropriating $15,000 for fencing and stocking it ch. 224 : extending absolute 
protection to quail ch. 225 : creating a game fund ch. 226 : repealing the protection 
afforded does in 1911 and permitting them to be killed during the regular open season 
(ch. 227 . 
Tennessee. — Four local laws: Protecting game in Haywood. Johnson. Lauderdale. 
Washington, and Unicoi Counties chs. 117. 2*39. 271. 309 
Texas. — No legislation. 
Utah. — Two acts: General revision of the game laws: Increasing salary of the com- 
missioner from $1,800 to £2,400 and that of the chief deputy from $1,200 to $1,400 per 
annum: shortening the season two weeks on deer. 45 days on sage hens, on quail in cer- 
tain counties, and providing an open season of 10 days on grouse and a limit of 6 a day 
and 25 a year: prodding a close season throughout the year for elk. antelope, sheep. 
doves, shore birds except snipe . and swans; increasing the daily limit on geese from 
5 to 12: affording protection throughout the year to pelicans, bitterns, hawks, black- 
birds, and kingfishers: reducing the fee for an alien license from $100 to $15: creating 
the Strawberry Valley and Fish Lake game preserves: authorizing the commissioner 
with concurrence of the State board of examiners, to set aside and maintain public 
hunting grounds in Salt Lake. Davis, and Box Elder Counties ch. 46 : and providing 
for the observance of bird day in the schools on the last Friday in April of each 
year ch. 60 . 
Vermont. — Five acts: General revision and codification of the game laws: length- 
ening the season on deer 10 days, on ruffed grouse and woodcock 16 days, and on plover 
and English snipe tw week - providing a close season on other shore birds for the first 
time. December 1 to September 1. and prodding no open season for pheasants. 
European partridges, upland plover, and wood duck: permitting the sale of deer and 
rabbits during the open season and of deer for a •• reasonable time thereafter:" increas- 
ing the resident license fee from 50 to 75 cents: reducing the daily bag on rabbits from 
6 to 5 and limiting p asessi d f rabbits and squirrels to one day's bag: reducing the 
daily limit on quail, ruffed grouse, partridge, and woodcock from 5 to 4 each, and that 
on plover and English snipe from 5 each a day to 10 of all shore birds combined: 
authorizing the commissi ner to seize and confiscate birds or quadrupeds held in 
vi -iiiion of law. and wardens to search without warrant: providing for the establish- 
ment of private preserves, game refuges, and regulation of propagation farms No. 201 : 
relating to rabbits X; . 205 : trapping and other prohibited methods of taking game 
No. 206 ; protecting elk for 10 years No. 208 : appropriating $2,500 for clerical 
assistance of the commissioner for the biennial period J. Res. Xo. 496 . 
Washington. — Three acts: Creating a county game commission of three resident 
members for each county and providing for the appointment of a chief game warden 
west if the Cascades and a chief deputy warden east of the Cascades: county com- 
mission authorized to appoint wardens and assistants and to set aside by proper publL 
cation count}- game preserves: shifting the season on big game to open October 1 
instead of September 1: protecting moose until 1925. and allowing no open season for 
caribou and swan, with 'numerous changes in local seasons, tending slightly toward 
uniformity: reducing the seasonal limit on sheep and goat from 2 to 1 each, and on 
upland game birds from 30 a week to 25: omitting the daily limit on waterfowl, reduc- 
ing the weekly limit from 50 to 20. and defining a week x>< begin at midnight on 
Wednesday night: repealing the nonresident $5 county license and the $50 alien 
license ch. 120 : creating a game refuge in Pierce County , near Commencement Bay, 
on Puget S..und ch. 122.. 
