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BULLETIN OF THE 
No. 22 
§ Contribution from the Bureau ot Biological Survey, Henry W. Henshaw. 
Chief. September 16, 1913. 
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GAME LAWS FOR 1913 
A SUMMARY OF THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO SEASONS, 
SALE, LIMITS, AND LICENSES. 
By T. S. Palmer, W. F. Bancroft, and Frank L. Earnshaw, 
Assistants, Biological Survey. 
INTRODUCTION. 
SCOPE OF THE BULLETIN. 
The present bulletin, containing the fourteenth annual summary 
of the game laws of the United States and Canada, has been prepared 
on the same general plan as those issued each year since 1902. * It 
contains a summary of the more important features of the new 
legislation, a brief synopsis of the new game laws enacted in each 
State and Province, and a series of tables showing the provisions 
relating to seasons, export, sale, limits, and licenses. It differs from 
other publications on the game laws in several important points: 
(1) Inclusion of a brief but comprehensive review of the measures 
enacted, (2) arrangement of provisions by subjects instead of by 
States, and (3) adoption of a uniform statement and order of the 
various details to facilitate ready comparison of similar provisions 
in different States. Tts chief objects are to present in convenient 
form the restrictions on hunting which affect the enforcement of the 
Federal statutes regulating interstate commerce in game and the 
protection of migratory birds, and to show the trend and general 
condition of legislation from year to year. Provisions relating to 
methods of capture, game refuges, enforcement of laws, disposition 
of fines and fees, and matters of special or local application are 
omitted. These can be found only by reference to the laws them- 
selves or to the pamphlet editions of the game laws, obtainable in 
most States from the proper officials. 1 
i A directory of these officers, with their addresses, is published as Circular No. 94, Biological Survey 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, ]913. 
