APPENDIX—(E.) 
GAME LAW: 
As drawn for and adopted by The Sportsman’s Club of New York, in 1848; 
subsequently petitioned for, and now the law in Orange and Rockland 
counties, N. Y. 
2To tfje honorable tfte Senate of ti)e State of Neto York. 
Your petitioners, residents of-, beg leave respectfully 
to represent to your honorable House, that in consequence of 
the entire inadequacy of the now existing Game Laws of the 
State of New York to the purposes for which they are designed, 
the several species of game which formerly abounded in this 
State, are already becoming so rare that there is great reason to 
fear that they will entirely disappear within a very short period. 
Your memorialists beg leave respectfully to draw the atten¬ 
tion of your honorable body to the pernicious practice tolerated 
by the existing laws of killing Woodcock during the summer 
months, when the young birds are immature, and the old birds 
are engaged in incubation, or the care of their young—a prac¬ 
tice which, if persisted in, must result, within a few years, in 
the entire extinction of the race. 
And your memorialists respectfully represent that this prac¬ 
tice of killing Woodcock in summer is not only detrimental 
to the preservation of game, but that it is positively hurtful to 
the farmer or landholder, who is prevented from pursuing field 
sports at that season, by the pressure of his rural avocations, 
while his standing crops of grain and grass are liable to be 
overrun and injured by heedless persons, calling themselves 
sportsmen. 
