Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — SUMMARY OF NEW FISH AND GAME LAWS,” [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF NEW FISH AND GAME LAWS,”

Prohibits possession of quails from January Ist to November 10th, Applicable to incorporated storage companies as Well as individuate. Outs bag limit on quails and ducks to fifteen per day. Any person having bunted three or more days consecutively mty have a total of forty-five of either, killed by himself during such hunt. Provides open season for waterfowl from September Ist to following April Ist. V Prohibits dove shooting at all times.

Open season on squirrels, July Ist to October Ist. Hays bill provides closed season on squirrels, November Ist to following July let, and Section 608 of the law of 1905 makes it unlawful to bunt any kind of game from October Ist to November 10th. The two laws together makes open season on squirrels from July Ist to October Ist.

Makes open season for woodcock, July Ist to October Ist, and November 10th lot January Ist. Any resident land owner may bunt on his ownjandanywhere in the state without license and his children living with him, also his tenants, are given similar privilege. But if he or they hunt anywhere in the state except on his own land, license must be secured, that license being obtained of the Clerk of the county in which applicant resides, except in Marion county—such license being obtained at the Commissioner’s office in the State House in Marion county. Such license costs one dollar, and the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game must spend one-third of all such license money in buying live quails and other species of game for distribution throughout the state for the purpose of restocking the state with such live game. Allows hook and line fishing the year around in all the waters of the state except in Bass Lake, it being unlawful to fish through the ice in that lake. The restrictions provided for in Section 616 of the Acts of 1905, relative to fishing through the ice, are still in force. Sale of game fish caught in this state is prohibited, and proof of sale or offer of sale of any such fish is prima facie evidence that such fish were caught in this state. None but officers of the Fish and Game Commissioner may confiscate nets, seines, etc., and a conviction for possession or use of such nets, etc., must be made before any fee can be collected for seizing or destroying same. Legalizes sale of game fish caught in any private pond, but person selling or shipping such fish must present affidavit that such fish were caught in a private pond, and a private pond is defined to mean any body of water not greater than ten acres in area, lying wholly within or upon the lands of any land owner.