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sitting on 'the ground unless wounded; provided, that no wild bird game be killed 
earlier than one hour before sunrise or later than one hour after sunset; provided, 
that no bird be killed from a motor boat; provided, it shall be unlawful to use 
more than twelve live ducks as decoys for killing of wild ducks; provided further, 
that this act shall not prevent the owners of orchards and farms from killing blue- 
jays, crows and blackbirds for the protection of other birds, fruits and grains; 
and great horned owls, goshawks, Cooper’s hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, (the smaller 
varieties of hawks) for the protection of game birds and poultry; provided, that no 
insect or rodent eating hawk (the larger varieties of hawks) be taken or killed; 
and provided further, that the English or European sparrow be not included in the 
list of protected birds. 
Number Killed.—It shall be unlawful for one person in one calendar day to kill, 
game birds in excess of the following indicated number: Snipe, twelve; doves, 
twenty; plover, twenty; wild ducks, twenty; wild geese, six; wild brant, six. 
Partridge, Pheasant.—It shall be unlawful for a period of five years from the 
time this .act shall take effect, to kill any quail, prairie chicken, Hungarian 
partridge, or any English, Mongolian or Chinese pheasant. 
Shipment.—-It shall be unlawful to ship any bird or birds named in above sections 
oi this act; the game warden may issue permits to transport for scientific purposes. 
Trespass.—That it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon the premises 
of another person and fish or hunt without the permission of the owner having 
been first obtained in writing. 
ALABAMA. 
Seasons as to Game Birds.—No person shall kill the following named game 
birds, except between the following dates: Wild turkey gobblers, December 1st 
to April ist following; quail (Bob White partridges) from November ist to 
March ist; doves from August ist to March ist; swans, geese, brant, duoks, rails, 
coots, mud hens, sandpipers, woodcock and curlews, or other shore birds, Septem¬ 
ber ist to March 15th; snipe and plover, November ist to May ist following. 
Pheasants.—Any person who kills, except under permit, any ruffed grouse (phea¬ 
sant), Mongolian, Chinese or English .pheasant or other imported game birds only 
from November 15th to December 15th following, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 
Night.—Any person who shall kill .any birds, deer, wild turkey, wild ducks, 
wild geese, brant or other aquatic fowl between dark and daylight shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Deer, Wild Turkey Hens.—Any person who shall kill any doe or female deer 
or wild turkey hen, or who shall kill any deer between January ist and the ist 
of November, or who shall use any artificial light in hunting or killing deer, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Squirrels.—Any person who shall kill any fox squirrel, black squirrel or gray 
squirrel, except from October ist to March ist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
[May at any time be killed to protect crops.] 
Bag Limits, Possession.—Any person who takes more than one deer, two turkey 
gobblers or twenty-five game birds of any other species in one day, or who has 
such game in possession for more than five days after the close season for killing 
the same, shall be guilty of a miisdeameanor. 
Licenses.—Any person who hunts outside of the voting precinct in which he 
resides, or outside of the county in which he resides without first obtaining a 
license; or any non-resident of the State who hunts in this State without a 
non-resident license, shall be guilty of a' misdemeanor; but any person may hunt 
upon bis own lands without obtaining a license. Any person who has been a 
bona fide resident of the State for one year may procure a county hunting license 
by filing with the Probate Judge an affidavit stating age, place of residence, post- 
office address, color, color of hair and eyes, and whether he can write his name, 
and by paying the judge $1. [Fee for resident’s State license $3.] Any non¬ 
resident or alien of this State may procure a license for hunting by filing his 
affidavit [as aforesaid] with the Probate Judge of any county and by paying $15. 
Shipping Game.—Any person who takes or ships out of or within this State any 
game, unless the same be in personal possession of, or carried openly by the 
owner thereof, or person killing .the same, who has in possession -a [hunting] 
license, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
[Fish.—There are no restrictions on angling.] 
MISSOURI. 
Seasons.—No person shall take any game birds except the following named 
game birds between the following dates: Wild turkey, November ist to Decem¬ 
ber 31st; quail (bobwhite, partridge), from December ust .to December 31st; ducks, 
geese and brant, January 1st to April 30th and September 15th to December 31st; 
snipe, January ist to April 30th and September 15th to December 31st; plover, 
September ist to December 31st; doves, September ist to December 31st. 
Protected Species.—Any person who shall take any woodcock, pinnated grouse 
(prairie chicken), ruffed grouse (pheasant), Mongolian, Chinese or English phea¬ 
sant, or other resident, migratory or imported game bird shall be punished. 
Methods.—Any person who, in the pursuit of any wild duck, goose, brant, or 
other aquatic bird, shall use any sneak boat, or any sailboat, or boat propelled 
by steam, naphtha, electric or other engine or machinery, or any battery, swivel 
gun or punt gun, or who shall .construct or use, for the purpose of hunting, upon 
the ice, any fixed or artificial blind or ambush, shall be punished; provided, 
however, that it shall be lawful to shoot aquatic birds on the Missouri and 
Mississippi rivers from motor boats. 
Night.—No person shall kill any birds, deer, wild turkey, wild ducks, wild 
geese, brant, or other aquatic bird of fowl, between sunset and the following 
sunrise. 
Deer.—It is unlawful to kill any deer under one year of age. It is unlawful 
to kill any deer between the rst day of January and the ist day of November; dt 
is unlawful to kill any doe. It is unlawful to make use of any artificial light 
in killing deer. It is unlawful to capture any deer in the waters of the streams, 
ponds or lakes, or to chase deer with dogs, or to have in possession or transport 
the carcass of any deer, or any portion of such carcass, unless the same has 
thereon the natural evidence of its sex. 
Squirrels.—No person shall kill any gray squirrel, fox squirrel (American squirrel) 
or black squirrel only from July ist to November 30th, both inclusive. 
Fur.—It shall be unlawful to kill any fur-bearing wild animal or take any pelts 
out of season. The season for taking such pelts shall be from November ist to 
December 31st, and from January ist to February ist. 
Limit.—The right to take deer or birds, or to have in possession, unless other¬ 
wise specified, is United to food purposes and to -one deer, two turkeys and ten 
birds of any other family for each person in any one calendar day, and no person 
shall kill or have in possession at any one time more than two deer, four tur¬ 
keys and fifteen birds of any other family. No birds, game or fish shall be held 
In possession for more than five days after the close of the season for killing the 
same. , 
License.—It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt without first obtaining 
a license permitting him or her to do so. Any non-resident .,.<»y secure a incense 
for hunting by filing his (or her) affidavit with the State game and fish com¬ 
missioner stating name, age, place of residence, postoffice address, color of hair 
and eyes, and the fact whether he can write his own name and paying to the 
commissioner twenty-five dollars. County clerks and the license collector of the 
city of St. Louis shall issue resident licenses. A county resident license shall 
entitle the holder to hunt only in the county wherein such license is issued, and 
any adjoining county. A State resident license shall entitle the holder to hunt 
in all counties in the State of Missouri. Any person who has been a bona fide 
resident of this State for six months last past may seoure a license by filing his 
affidavit with the clerk of the county where he resides, stating age, name, place 
of residence, postoffice address, color of hair and eyes, and the fact whether he 
can write his name, paying one dollar for a license to hunt in the county in which 
he resides and any county adjoining same, or five dollars for a State resident 
license; provided, that this section shall not apply to owners and tenants of farm 
lands used exclusively for agricultural purposes, and members of their families 
under the age of twenty-one years, who may hunt on their own or leased lands 
without obtaining a hunting license. 
Transportation.—It is unlawful for any person who has lawfully killed the same 
in this State to take, transport out of this State, or .within the State, any birds 
or game protected by the laws, unless the same shall be in personal possession of 
or carried openly as baggage or express by the owner thereof, and suoh owner shall 
have in his possession at the time a non-resident or resident license. 
MICHIGAN. 
Hunting License.—It shall be unlawful for any person to kill any of the wild 
animals or wild birds protected by the laws without first obtaining a license to 
do so. Wild animals and wild birds shall be construed to mean .all of the animals 
or birds designated as game animals and game birds, except deer and fur-bearing 
animals. The provisions of this section shall not apply to residents of this State 
and their minor children or employes when hunting upon their own lands, nor 
■to any person while hunting within the county in which he actually resides. 
Any person seventeen years Of age or over may procure a license by filing his 
affidavit with the county clerk of the county of which the applicant is a resi¬ 
dent, or the State Game, Fish and Forestry Warden, stating name, nationality, 
age, height, weight, place of residence, postoffice address, color of his hair and 
eyes and whether he can write his own name, and paying, if the applicant 
be a non-resident of the State, .ten dollars; if he be an alien and resident of the 
State, ten dollars; if a resident of the State other than an alien and is regularly 
domiciled therein, and one who has declared his intention to become a citizen, 
one dollar; such application in case of non-residents to be made by mail if the 
party so desires to the State warden at his offioe in Lansing. The applicant shall 
make oath that he Is familiar with the game laws and will obey the same. 
Game Animals and Birds.—The following shall be considered game: Game animals, 
moose, elk, caribou, deer, rabbits and squirrels (excepting red squirrels); game 
birds, the anatidse, commonly known as geese, brant and wild duck; the 
rollidae, commonly known as rails, coot and gallinules; the limicolae, commonly 
known as shore birds, snipe, woodcock, plovers and sandpipers, tatlers and 
curlews; the gallinae, commonly known as pheasants, grouse, prairie chicken 
and quail. All other species of wild resident and migratory birds shall be con¬ 
sidered non-game birds. [All non-game birds are protected, except English spar¬ 
rows, blackbirds, crows, Cooper’s hawks, sharp-shinned hawks and great horned 
cwls.] 
Bag Limits.—No person shall take in one day more than the following number 
of any of the game birds: Quail, six; partridge (ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, 
six; plover, six; woodcock, six; snipe and other shore birds, ten; greese, brant 
and ducks, twenty-five. No person shall at any time have in possession more 
than the following number of any of the game birds: Quail, fifteen; partridge 
(ruffed grouse) and spruce hens, fifteen in all; plover, twenty; woodcock, twenty; 
snipe and other shore birds, twenty in all; geese, brant and ducks, twenty-five 
in all. No person shall kill in any calendar year more than fifty of any one 
kind of the following game birds: Quail, partridge (r iffed grouse), spruce hen, 
plover, woodcock, snipe and other shore birds. No person shall during the open 
season of any calendar year take more than two deer. 
Seasons.—The following animals and birds may be killed during the periods 
named, which shall be the open season, all dates inclusive: Deer, November 10th 
to November 30th. [Deer are protected until 1920 in counties having a popula¬ 
tion of more than 48,000 and less than 65,000, by the 1910 census. On Bois Blanc 
Island deer and elk are protected until 1918.] Fox, gray and black squirrels, 
October 15th to November 30th; rabbits, 'September ist to March ist; quail, 
October ist to November 30th; woodcock, partridge (ruffed .grouse), October ist to 
November 30th; spruce hens, October ist to November 30th; ducks, snipe, plover, 
shore birds and sora rails, September rst to December 31st; rails and coots, 
September 15th to December 31st; geese and brant, pin-tail, red-head, blue bill, 
whistler, butter-ball and widgeon, September ist to April 30th. Provided that 
fox, black and gray squirrels shall not be hunted until 1915. Provided that 
Mongolian or English pheasant, quail, black fowl, capercailzie, hazel grouse and 
wild turkey shall not be hunted until the year 1917. 
Export by Non-Resident.—Any non-resident hunter, who [has] a non-resident 
hunter’s license, may take from this State as open baggage a number of any or 
each of all said game birds equal to the number of said birds permitted to be 
killed by him under said license in a single day. And may ship to any point 
without the State, one deer or part of a deer: Provided, that he shall first 
Obtain from the State warden or his authorized deputy, a shipping permit. 
Deer Hunting License.—It shall not be lawful for any person to kill deer with¬ 
out first obtaining a hunter’s license. Any citizen or alien who has declared his 
intention, who has been a bona fide resident of this State for six months then 
last past, may procure a deer hunter’s license by filing his affidavit with the 
clerk of the county where he resides, stating .his name, age, place of residence, 
post office address, the color of his hair and eyes and whether he can write 
his name, and paying $1.50. Any non-resident may procure a deer hunter’s 
license by filing his affidavit with the clerk of the county in which he proposes 
to hunt, and any alien resident of this State not having declared his intention 
to become a citizen may procure a hunter’s license by filing his affidavit with 
the clerk of the county in which he resides, in which affidavit .the applicant shall 
state his name, age, place of residence, post office address, color of his hair and 
eyes and the county or counties in .which he proposes to hunt, and whether he 
can write his name, and paying $25. 
Fur Animals.—No person shall take any skunk, otter, fisher, marten, fox, mink 
or raccoon from and including the first day of April to and including the 31st day 
of October, nor muskrat from and including the 15th day of April to and including 
the 31st day of October. It shall be unlawful to use any firearms or explosives 
in hunting muskrats. [Beaver may be taken only on license from county clerk, 
May 15th to October 31st.] 
