Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — CROW SCALPS VALUABLE. [ARTICLE]

CROW SCALPS VALUABLE.

Bounty Ten Cents Each, and Five Cents On Each Egg. Representative Brown’s crow bounty bill, mention of which has been made heretofore in The Democrat, carried an emergency clause, and has been in force since March 4, when it was signed by Governor Marshall. It authorizes counties to pay

a bounty “not exceeding 10 cents to any person who shall deliver to the auditor of the county the head of any common crow and the further sum of 5 cents for each and every crow’s egg so exhibited in lots of ten,” upon affidavit “that the crow was killed or the eggs were taken from a crow’s nest in the county.” The act is not to apply to hawks or owls. Whether or not it is made mandatory to pay these bounties we are unable to say. It may be simply discretionary with the county commissioners, which, if the case, will probably result in lots of crows being killed, “just over the line” in the counties paying the bounty. In any event, it would appear that an appropriation must be made by the county council before any bounties whatever are paid in any county.