The first qualities demanded of a compendium of laws are accuracy and completeness. The preparation of this work has involved an examination of a multitude of distinct, original and amendatory acts contained in the statutes and session laws of the fifty-nine States, Territories and Provinces here represented. The labor of compilation has been largely increased by the often careless and sometimes seemingly contradictory nature of the legislation. The Brief as it appears to-day is the result of a painstaking and conscientious endeavor to furnish an accurate and reliable compendium. The Game Laws in Brief is believed to be correct and complete within the conditions printed on Page 3. I will reward any person first advising me of any error that may be discovered, as follows: For the first notice of an instance where the law quoted in the Brief, prescribing game and fish seasons of any State or Territory, is not the general law in force at the time of this revision, I will give $5. For first notice of an erroneous statement of a game or fish season in any State or Territory, or of an omission of a prescribed season, I will give $1. These offers relate to general, not local, laws, and to recognized game and fish (not, for example, to the Connecticut bobolink, rice bird and robin season), nor to furbearing animals. For first notice of an omission of a State non-resident shooting or fishing license requirement, or of a game or fish take limit, or of a game or fish export prohibition, I will give $1. CHARLES B. REYNOLDS. Office of Forest and Stream, New York. Always consult the index facing back cover ENDING OF THE FIRST RECORDED CLOSE TIME ON ALL SPECIES OF GAME. Fac-simile from De Bry's Voyages-Le Moyne's "Brevis Narratio"-printed in the year 1591. En THE GAME LAWS IN BRIEF C+ A Digest of the Statutes of the United States and Compiled from Original and Official Sources, for ingham By CHARLES B. REYNOLDS NEW YORK FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1911, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. us Always consult the index on last white page facing inside back cover. This edition is revised to the date of the index printed on last page. Any change in a law, as it is printed in the body of the book, will be noted in index. Always consult the index. COPYRIGHT NOTICE. This compilation of the Game Laws in Brief is protected by copyright. The publishers have complied with all the requirements of the copyright law for securing their rights, and will protect them. All persons are warned against printing, publishing, or dealing in infringements of the Brief copyright. FOREST AND STREAM PUB, CO. THE GAME LAWS IN BRIEF UNITED STATES and CANADA. This edition is revised to the date of index on the last page. Any change in a law, as it is printed in the body of the book, is noted in the index * ALWAYS CONSULT THE INDEX. The purpose of the "Game Laws in Brief" is to give the provisions which relate to seasons for fish and game, the limitations as to size or number, transportation, non-resident requirements, and other restrictions, for the practical guidance of sportsmen and anglers as to shooting and fishing Method. The sections are printed in abstract; but better to insure accuracy, the language is that of the original. "Kill," "catch," or other term, takes the place of the more comprehensive formula of the statute "catch, kill, injure or destroy, or pursue with such intent,” etc. The Laws are general.—Local laws obtain in certain States. The date of enactment given is of the original statute, but the text is given here as amended to the date printed on last page facing back cover. If no close season is named for a species the law prescribes none. Possession is always unlawful in close season, except that some States allow from three days to one month after the season closes. Netting game fish or catching by drugs, explosives, dams, or any mode other than angling with hook and line, is forbidden. Birds other than game (except of prey) are protected at all times. Nests and eggs of all birds (except of prey) are protected. Night shooting is generally prohibited. Netting or snaring game birds or killing by any mode other than shooting |