Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — Fish and ..Game Laws.. [ARTICLE]

Fish and ..Game Laws..

Game may be shot by residents and nonresidents who are granted license as follows: Quail, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken or pinnated grouse from November 10th to January Ist. Wild goose, duck, brant or other water Jowl from September Ist to April 15th. It is lawful to shoot wood-cock from July Ist to Jan. Ist. It is unlawful to kill any wild bird other than a game bird. Squirrels from June Ist to January Ist. Wild dove from August 15th to Jauuary 1 st. Game and fish are regarded as property of the state. It is unlawfnl to hunt any and all kinds of game from October Ist to November 10th, unless granted a special hunting license by Z. L. Sweeney, commissioner of Fisheries and Game, Columbus, Indiana. Game birds are: Swans, geese, brant, river and sea ducks, rails, coots, mudhens, plovers, surf-birds, snipe, wood-cock, sandpipers, tattlers and curlews wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, quail and pheasants. Fishing is lawful at any and all times of the year with hook, and line. Shooting at or shooting fish is unlawful. Netting, trapping, and spearing is unlawful. It is lawful to set trot lines with 100 hooks. It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale or to buy any pike, pickeral, wall eyed pike, perch, blue gills, black bass or other kind of bass at any time.

John E. Elam, of Valparaiso, deputy revenue collector for the 7th district, was in the city yesterday. He informs us that all Spanish war tax will cease after July Ist, and that the beer tax will be redqoed to $1 per barrel and tobacco and snnfif to 6 cents per pound.