Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — INDIANA GAME LAW, [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GAME LAW,

It Has Some Provisions Not Generally Understood. The charge for hunter’s license to those living within the State is $1 for each license and to those who are citizens of other States $15.50. This money is remitted to the State Treasurer and, jsused in part to pay the commissioner of fisheries and game and hi* deputies. Not less than one-third of the money received from this source is required by law to be spent in the purchase knd distribution of live quail and other species of live game for the purpose of restocking the State with such as may for any reason become scarce. Just now, while the hunting season is on, there are a few things that every one ought to know in regard to the game laws. No license is issued to any person under 14 years of age, unless the application is endorsed in writing by the parents or guardian. Owners of farm lands, their children or tenants may hunt on the lands of which they are the owners or tenants during the hunting season without procuring a license. A person can hunt rabbits in the township in which he resides without license. No hunter shall kill more than fifteen quail in one day, and in three consecutive days not more than for-ty-five. The penalty- attached to any violation of the game law is, for a resident of the State, not less than $5 nor more than $25 for each offense. For non-resi-dents, not less than $25 nor more than SIOO, to which may be added not more than sixty days in the county jail. The game laws of Tire State are being better understood and appreciated each year. These laws are the outcome of years of effort, and while there is yet much to improve they are nevertheless of great value in preserving to the people the useful native birds and animals that nature has provided for them. The hunting season opened Nov. 10 and will continue until Jan. 1. The game laws of Ohio and Kentucky are not the same as the Indiana law, but in both States they are very strict. Rabbits and quail are plentiful