Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Fish and Game Laws. [ARTICLE]

Fish and Game Laws.

From the forthcoming report of Z. T. Sweeney, commissioner of fisheries and game of Indiana, the following suggestions for fntnre legislation are called: The law requiring dam owners to ladder their mill dams should provide for a penalty of $5 per day for their refusal to do so. The appointment of a speoial committee by the Legislature to take under considers 4 lion the question of stream pollution and draft a bill, To forbid residents as .well as non-residents taking more than 24 game birds out of the state upon any speoial day. A provision that 36 rail, plover and snipe can be killed in one day in the open season- * Require a lioense fee of $1 from each person who owns or nses a shotgun. An accurate description of the owner or user thereof should be contained in the licenee. The open season on duoks, brandts and water fowls to be made one month shorter. The open season for killing squirrels between Oct. 1 and Nov 10 of each year be abolished. The legislature should provide for nature study in the publio sohools.