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years the Legislature has appropriated front 
$21,000 to $74,000 per annum for game and fish 
protection. 
Commissioner Jesse A. Tolin last year esti¬ 
mated that the total amount paid into the game 
fund of Missouri would be about $150,000. For 
1909 the total was $98,000. The last Legislature 
appropriated $200,000 for the commissioner’s 
uses for 1909-10. Excellent progress has been 
made and the sportsmen are appreciative. We 
have already referred to the sportsmen’s propo¬ 
sition to purchase a large tract of land in the 
Ozarks for a game and fish preserve. The pay¬ 
ment, they claim, should be made from the game 
fund. A fortnight ago the Missouri State House 
was destroyed by fire. It was said at the time 
that there was about $30,000 in cash in the vaults 
in the treasurer’s office, but we have not heaid 
since then how much, if any, of this was re¬ 
covered when the vaults were opened, or whether 
the game fund was affected. The central por¬ 
tion of the capitol was erected in 1838 during 
Governor Boggs’ administration. This was of 
course not fireproof, but about twenty yeais ago 
two large wings w r ere added, and the treasury 
was in one of these. The entire structure was 
of stone. 
Montana has a game fund which is sufficient 
to cover the expenditures of Warden Henry 
Avare. In 1909 about $45,000 was collected from 
shooters. Non-residents paid about $5,000 in all 
for licenses and shipping permits, and guides 
paid about $400 for their licenses. Sportsmen 
are satisfied. 
For constitutional reasons all of Nebraska s 
shooting license fees are turned into the school 
fund, and no part of this money is used for 
game and fish protection. In 1909 nearly $10,000 
was paid for licenses, fines, etc. The Legislature 
appropriated approximately $29,000 for two 
vears’ current expenses of the commission. 
Chief Warden Dan Geilus informed us last year 
that the sportsmen were not satisfied with the 
present arrangement. He thought every resident 
should obtain a license. Under the law a resi¬ 
dent may hunt in his home county without a 
license, but must pay $1 to hunt in other coun¬ 
ties. 
In New Hampshire the license fees are turned 
into the treasury as a special fund. For 1909 
the fees amounted to about $27,000. 1 he Legis¬ 
lature’s appropriation for game and fish protec¬ 
tion during that year was $8,600. An effort was 
made last year to secure for game and fish pro¬ 
tection the moneys contributed by sportsmen, 
who were dissatisfied with its disposition. 
New Tersey sportsmen are satisfied with the 
shooting license law. A’l sums collected from 
this source are turned over to the Fish and Game 
Commission. In 1909 the total was about $ 5 o,ooo. 
New Mexico has a separate game fund. In 
1909 the total was $7,886.20. In addition to this 
the Legislature appropriates $2,300 per annum 
for Warden Thomas P. Gable’s salary and ex¬ 
penses. Shooters are satisfied. 
In New York the constitution provides that 
all moneys collected shall be turned into the 
State’s general fund. The shooting license fees, 
therefore, are not used for game protection. In¬ 
stead, the Legislature appropriates money for 
this purpose. In 1909 the license fee fund totaled 
$130,000. For game and fish protection the Legis¬ 
lature appropriated $123,756.58. 
In North Carolina the shooting license fees 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
go to the game fund and are expended by the 
State Audubon Society. About $8,500 is re¬ 
alized from the sale of licenses. 
North Dakota’s game fund in 1909 was about 
$27,000, but as the then new arrangement met 
with general satisfaction, it is probable the total 
for last year was greatly augmented. 
Non-residents alone pay license fees in Ohio, 
the fund being handled by the game commis¬ 
sion. Attempts to require a resident license fee 
have so far met with successful opposition. 
Oklahoma’s Legislature last year appropriated 
$32,000 for fish and game propagation. The 
game fund totaled $73,000. General satisfaction 
seems to prevail. 
Oregon appropriates $4,200 per annum for the 
Fish and Game Department. In 1909 Warden 
R. O. Stevenson collected over $43,000, mainly 
from gunners’ licenses. His department expends 
such portions of the fund as are deemed neces¬ 
sary. General satisfaction with the plan seems 
to prevail. 
In Pennsylvania the money collected from non¬ 
resident shooters is divided, the county retain¬ 
ing half, the balance going into the treasury. Ihe 
game commission and the fish commission are 
separate bodies. The former disburses about 
$25,000 annually for game protection, and the 
latter a larger sum. For two years the game 
commission and sportsmen’s associations have 
endeavored to secure the passage of a resident 
license law, the fees to be used for game pro¬ 
tection. 
South Carolina appropriates nothing for game 
protection, and the game fund averages about 
$3,000 only. Satisfaction seems to prevail. 
In South Dakota half of the proceeds from 
gunners’ licenses goes into the State treasury, 
while the balance goes to the county treasury. 
In 1909 about $35,000 in all was collected from 
sportsmen, who like the arrangement. 
Tennessee has never appropriated any moneys 
for fish and game protection. Game, Fish and 
Forestry Warden Joseph H. Acklen has carried 
the financial burden on his own shoulders, and 
has tried to make accounts balance. In 1908 
less than $8,000 was received from licenses 
Texas collected $11,000 for shooting licenses 
in 1909, this going into the game fund. Deputy 
Commissioner Lorance tells us the sportsmen are 
satisfied with this arrangement. 
L’tah's game fund was about $30,000 in I 909 > 
and probab y much more last year. Commis¬ 
sioner F. W. Chambers collects all fishing and 
shooting license fees, and his disposition of the 
accruing fund meets with the satisfaction of the 
sportsmen. Last year 10,000,000 trout fry were 
planted by the commission. 
Vermont supplies its Department of Fish and 
Game with $5,500 every year. All moneys col¬ 
lected by the Department are added to its fund. 
In 1909, $20,000 was collected. The arrangement 
is satisfactory to gunners. 
In Washington each county treasury receives 
the fees paid to its officials by gunners, and may 
expend the fund as it may elect. The State 
auditor also issues shooting licenses, good in all 
counties, the proceeds going into the game pro¬ 
tection fund, to be appropriated for paying the 
salary and traveling expenses of one deputy 
warden. This requires about $4,500 for two 
years, and the fees average a similar amount. 
West Virginia has a game fund. In 1909 it 
amounted to about $22,000. This the gunners are 
satisfied with so long as it is expended mainly m 
game protection. Warden J. A. Viquesney is 
allowed about $8,500 for salaries and expenses 
of himself and two chief deputies. This the 
Legislature appropriates. 
In Wisconsin the license fees go into the hunt¬ 
ing license fund in the State treasury. In 1909 
residents paid $97,63185 in fees; non-residents 
$5,500 for deer permits and $ 3 , 75 ° f° r sma 'i 
game permits. These and the moneys receh ed 
from various other permits, exclusive of com¬ 
mercial fishermen’s net licenses, brought the total 
up to $116,892.47. George W. Rickeman, State 
warden, informs us that, in his opinion, the 
sportsmen are satisfied with the disposition of 
the fund. 
Sportsmen paid into the general fund of the 
Wyoming. State treasury in 1909, $17,603.80; for 
1909-10 the Legislature appropriated for game 
and fish protection $31,000. Game Warden D. C. 
Nowlin believes the sportsmen are not satisfied 
with this arrangement, as they think all fees 
should be expended for protection, as may be 
done by legislative enactment, there being no 
bar against this in the State constitution. 
New Jersey Game and Fish Legislation. 
The board of fish and game commissioners 
of the State of New Jersey has just presented 
to Governor Wilson and the State Legislature 
an interesting report on game and fish legisla¬ 
tion in New Jersey prepared by C. E. Brewster, 
of the Bureau of Biological Survey in Washing¬ 
ton. 
The report includes a history of game and 
fish legislation from 1675 to 1910. The first game 
act passed by the General Assembly held in 
Elizabethtown provides the bounty of fifteen^ 
shillings for each grown wolf killed within the 
Province of New Jersey. Three years later was 
nassed an act giving to “the inhabitants of the 
Province of West Jersey liberty of fishing in 
the Delaware River or on the sea coast, and the 
liberty of hunting deer or other wild beasts, or 
wild fowl,” except on certain lands. In 1679 
the export of dressed deer skins from deer killed 
by Indians was forbidden. 
The first act about fish appears to have been 
passed in 1765, “to regulate the method of tak¬ 
ing fish in the River Delaware and to prevent 
obstructions in the navigation thereof and for 
other purposes.” 
Mr. Brewster discusses the duties of commis¬ 
sioners, wardens and deputy wardens, and writes 
at some length about spring shooting, pointing 
out its destructiveness until “the better class of 
sportsmen and other public spirited citizens 
rallied in a number of our States and the 
Provinces of Canada and fought a winning fight 
against selfishness and ignorance and saved the 
dav in their respective States.’ He speaks of 
game farms, and the success that has been had 
in raising deer, ruffed grouse and quail; of the 
importance of bag limits; the proper protection 
of shore birds; the needed revisions of the law; 
the protection of fish, both game and com¬ 
mercial, and the hunting license law. He recom¬ 
mends the adoption of uniform laws. 
Persons desiring to read this report should 
write about it to the board, whose members are 
B. C. Kuser, President, Trenton; William A. 
Logue, Treasurer. Bridgeton; Percival Chrystie, 
High Bridge, and Ernest Napier, East Orange. 
