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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
which represents a drain on onr funds of $22,000.00. We are satisfied 
that this money has been well expended and that the damage done by 
them is not overestimated. During the past two years the reports from 
our deputies and forest rangers show a larger number of does and fawns 
than have been seen in many years. In the northern, eastern, and 
central portions of the State deer are showing a decided increase. In 
southern California, by reason of forest fires, which have destroyed 
much deer cover, and with a large and increasing hunting population, 
no increase can be noted. 
HUNTING LICENSE LAW. 
In the nineteenth biennial report of this Commission the establish¬ 
ment of a hunting license law was urgently recommended, and a forcible 
argument presented to the thirty-seventh session of the legislature, with 
the result that such a law was placed on the statute books. It has met 
with the unqualified approval and support of all our people who are 
interested in sporting and the preservation of our game. The splendid 
financial returns have encouraged other states to follow our example. 
During the past two years New York, New Jersey, Iowa, Texas, Nevada, 
and Arizona has each come into line with a hunting license law, follow¬ 
ing closely the law of California. We are informed that the estab¬ 
lishment of a similar law in the state of New York is due to the data 
and material furnished by us to the leading sportsmen of New York, 
who presented it before the legislature of that state. All of the 
states in the Union, also Alaska and the Canadian Provinces, require 
a license in one form or another. In a few states a license is not 
required from a resident, but nonresident licenses are required in all 
of them except Arkansas, whose nonresidents are not permitted to hunt. 
Four states, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana, require 
that a market hunter take out a special license, the fee being $50.00 in 
the former, $25.00 in Tennessee and Georgia, and $10.00 in Louisiana. 
In a number of states the resident license fee is greater than in Cali¬ 
fornia; Alabama charges $3.00, Washington and Alaska $5.00, Michigan 
and Wyoming $1.50, Connecticut, Vermont, and Oklahoma $1.25. 
Some states issue to aliens a license for the same amount as a non¬ 
resident of the State, but a strong tendency is noted to make the fee 
for an alien greater than that of a citizen of the country. Our alien 
license fee of $25.00 is exceeded by a number of other states, for example, 
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in Utah and Alaska the fee is $100.00, in Washington and Wyoming 
$50.00. In British Columbia, Yukon, and Saskatchewan $100.00 is 
exacted of an alien and nonresident alike: Certain provinces of Canada, 
Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland charge $50.00. 
The State of Pennsylvania goes even further and prohibits aliens from 
hunting or owning guns in the state. 
