Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 42
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 16, 1907
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SOME POINTERS ON GAME LAW
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Deputy Game Warden Makes a Few
Remarks.
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By request of several I write to give a condensation of the game laws that apply
to this part of the state. There are no game animals to which the game
laws apply here, and only three game birds--ducks, doves and quail. There
are so few plover of late years that no attention is paid to them.
The laws were passed to reach the pot
hunter, the market hunter and the game butcher, and no man in the country, the
farmer or the new beginner, or the occasional shooter from town who goes out for
some exercises and fun, should raise any objection to the law, but should use
every effort to see it enforced.
Some men have the idea that all the game on
their land belong to them like a part of the realty.
The law starts out with the proposition,
"All wild game is public property." A landlord may "post" his premises and
reserve the game, but is just as liable to legal punishment for shooting out of
season as a stranger would be.
Of course the man in the country (one of
God's chosen) may get a pot shot out of season which he frequently does and gets
a nice mess of October quail, but nobody ever knows anything about it, but if a
town man does so please notify the proper authority.
The open season for quail and doves is from
Nov. 1 to Feb. 1; the limit, 25 birds to the gun in one day.
The law is evaded in this particular very
frequently by the "good shot" killing over the limit and whacking up with a
"scrub."
I see nothing in the law to prohibit the
killing of ducks at present except the limit of 25 a day.
J. W. Waters
Deputy Game Warden.
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