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FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ADVISORY BOARD 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, NEW YORK, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 111. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS. 3d. Washington, D. C. 
JOHN T. NICHOLS, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
T. GILBERT PEARSON, National Association cf Audubon Societies, 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
JOHN P. HOLMAN, Managing Editor 
T. H. MEARNS, Treasurer 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously 'promote a healthful interest hi outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
SANE REGULATION OF REVOLVER SALES 
T he passage of a uniform law dealing with the sale 
and possession of pistols and revolvers, will be 
urged in the various States during the next legis- 
lative season, by the United States Revolver Associa- 
tion, an organization composed of 3,000 men interested 
in revolver and pistol practice and the proper use of 
such firearms. 
The proposed law will be modeled after the bill S. 4012 
recently introduced in the United States Senate by 
Senator Capper of Kansas, which is intended to apply 
to the District of Columbia, but which, with slight 
changes in phraseology, would be applicable to any of 
the states. 
The Capper bill provides that none but citizens per- 
sonally known or properly identified to a licensed 
dealer in firearms, may purchase a pistol or revolver. 
Other provisions are : No weapon may be delivered 
to a purchaser until the day after the sale has been 
made. Every purchaser is recpiired personally to sign 
a record of sale in a book kept for the purpose and a 
duplicate of the record is to be filed with the police. 
Owners of pistols or revolvers are not permitted 
to carry such w^eapons on their persons or in vehicles 
wdthout having first obtained a license from the police. 
Aliens and persons who have been convicted of felony 
are not permitted to possess a pistol or revolver. 
The possession of a pistol by a person committing 
or attempting to commit a felony is regarded by the 
bill as prima facie evidence of criminal intent. It is 
provided that such person shall, in addition to the 
punishment ior the crime of which he may be convicted, 
be imprisoned for not less than five years. 
Heavy penalties are prescribed for second and third 
offenses against the provision forbidding the posses- 
sion of a iiistol in the commission of a felony and for 
a fourth offense, the bill permits a life sentence. 
Dealers in firearms are not permitted to exhibit pis- 
tols or revolvers in show windows nor in any place 
visible from the outside of the store. 
Identifying marks on jiistols or revolvers must not 
be altered or erased and the bill regards the mere 
possession of a weapon on which the manufacturer’s 
serial, number or other mark shall have been tampered 
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with as presumptive evidence that the tampering has 
been done by the possessor. 
The object of the bill is to make it possible for the 
law-abiding citizen to possess a pistol or revolver for 
protection of life and property and at the same time 
provide penalties sufficiently severe to deter criminals 
from using such weapons. 
W. B. BOULTON 
T he death of Wm. B. Boulton, at his IMorristown 
home September 17th, leaves a gap in the ranks 
of workers for game protection not easily filled. 
Mr. Boulton’s activities w'ere many. An able and 
successful business man wdth a charming personality, 
he possessed also that faculty for organization, and for 
the choice of the right men for certain work, which is 
usually found in those who carry matters which they 
undertake to successful endings. 
He was long interested in the shipping firm of Boul- 
ton, Bliss and Dallett, formed more than forty years 
ago, and during his career with that house became a 
director in The Mechanics & Metals National Bank, 
The United States Trust Co., The Atlantic Mutual In- 
surance Co., and the Norfolk & Western Railway Co. 
From most of these positions he withdrew^ on his re- 
tirement from active business, seven or eight years ago. 
At the time of his death he was president of the Morris- 
towm Trust Co., and director of the Niagara Insurance 
Co. His business interests were thus wdde. 
Sportsmen all over the United States will remember 
Mr. Boulton best as the able Chairman of the National 
Game Conference, at whose sessions and banejuets he 
had presided for the last six years. The}" recall his ex- 
cellent judgment; his impartial cool-headedness; his 
readiness in smoothing out differences, and his genial 
attitude toward critics. The National Game Conference 
has sustained a great loss. 
Besides this broader work Mr. Boulton did much for 
sport and for game preservation. Years ago he took 
hold of an unsuccessful shooting club near New York, 
and by his initative and good judgment built it up to a 
condition where good shooting was almost always to 
be had. Since he has resided at Morristown, N. J., he 
has been active in forwarding the work of game protec- 
tion in New Jersey, in connection with the Fish and 
Game Committee of the State. 
Mr. Boulton was an ideal American citizen ; a patriot, 
working earnestly for the public good; an ex.cellent 
business man ; a charming companion. To the great 
number of those who knew. him. or knew of him, his 
death carries a sense of real loss, while to the narrower 
circle of his close friends it brings keen personal grief. 
GAME LAWS FOR 1922 
A ll persons contemplating hunting in any State or 
Territory in the United States or in Canada are 
advised to obtain from the State Game Commis- 
sioner of that State or Territory the full text of its game 
laws. A summary of the provisions of Federal, State, 
and Provincial Statutes, and a list of officials from whom 
copies of State game laws may be obtained, is contained 
in Farmers’ Bulletin 1288, Game Laws for 1922, by 
George A. Lawyer, chief L^nited States game warden, 
and Frank L. Earnshaw. The Indletin is available free 
upon application to the United States Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
The object of the bulletin is to aid in the administra- 
tion of the provisions of the Migratory-Bird Treaty Act 
and the Lacey Act, by presenting in convenient form 
