Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Amendment To Game Laws. [ARTICLE]

Amendment To Game Laws.

A bill, backed by E. E. Earle, deputy state game commissioner, will be introduced in the legislature within the next few days, intended to amend the present game laws so as to provide that resident land owners, their families and their tenants may be permitted to hun upon their own farms without taking out a licenses, but providing that they must take out a license to hunt elsewhere. Mr. Earle wishes another change in the game laws, or rather a new law, giving the name commissioner power to use at least one third of the money derived from the sale of hunting licenses for the importation of quail and other game birds and animals to offset the rapid decline in game from year to year. ‘‘Under the present law,” says Mr. Earle, “all money derived from the sale of hunters’ license goes fund for the enforcement of the game laws and the expense of the department. If w-e get money with which- to buy quail more quail will be brought into the state All of the quail now being imported in Indiana are being purchased by the American League of Sportsmen.”