8 BULLETIN 22, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
LICENSES. 
License measures received consideration in 16 States and 4 Cana- 
dian Provinces, and resident licenses were adopted for the first time 
in Delaware, Florida, Michigan (birds), Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 
The fee in each instance is $1 with additions of 10 to 25 cents as a 
clerk fee in Delaware, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Alberta also required 
a $1.25 bird license for residents of cities in the southern part of the 
Province. Other new license requirements were as follows: Maine 
provided a special nonresident license (fee $5) for hunting birds in 
certain counties prior to October 1 ; Michigan a nonresident and resi- 
dent alien license (fee $10) for small game; Wyoming withdrew the 
privilege permitting a nonresident to be afield with a .22-caliber rifle 
without a license; and Alberta required a resident big game license 
throughout the Province, but the fee to farmers and their sons residing 
on their own land was reduced to $1. License fees were increased in 
several States. In Vermont the resident license was raised from 50 to 
75 cents; the Maine general nonresident license from $15 to $25; in 
Montana the general alien from $25 to $30; and in Wyoming the spe- 
cial resident license permitting the killing of one additional elk from 
$5 to $15. In Canada resident big game licenses were increased from 
$2 to $3 and from $2 to $5, respectively, in New Brunswick and 
Saskatchewan. Fees were also reduced in three Western States : in 
Utah the cost of the alien license was reduced from $100 to $15; in 
Wyoming, the alien bird license, from $20 to $5, and the resident 
bird license from $1.50 to $1; and in Washington the $5 nonresident 
county licenses and the $50 nonresident alien licenses were abolished. 
Montana and Oregon required $25 alien gun licenses in addition 
to the prescribed hunting licenses, but on the whole the license legis- 
lation affecting aliens has been more favorable than usual. 
Among the miscellaneous provisions the following may be men- 
tioned: Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Wyoming strengthened their 
license laws ; New Hampshire authorized town clerks to issue resident 
licenses, but in order to prevent fraudulent issue of such licenses to 
nonresidents prohibited issue to any applicant not personally known 
to the clerk as a resident of the State. 
WARDEN SERVICE. 
The warden service of at least 17 States was affected either directly 
or indirectly by the legislation of the year and in most instances 
the tendency was to increase its effectiveness. Florida created the 
office of fish and game commissioner, Maine delegated the protec- 
tion of game on the islands in the sea and 1 mile inland on the coast 
