Bird lore - Project Puffin

Penfold, Edmund
Petty, K. R
$10 00
2 00
Phelps, Mrs. Frances von R. . 10 00
Pott, Miss Emma i 00
Pusey, Mrs. Howard 2 00
Raymond, Charles H 5 00
Rhoads, S. N i 00
Righter, William S 5 00
Robbins, Miss N. P. H 3 00
Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. . 20 00
Sampson, Miss Lucy S i 00
Saunders, Charles G i 00
Schweppe, Mrs. H. M i 00
Scotield, Miss Marion 10 00
Shattuck, Miss Gertrude .\. . . i 00
Simpkins, Miss M. W 10 00
Small, Miss A. M 2 00
Spackman, Miss iMTiily S. .
The Audubon Societies 147
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Spaltcr, Mrs. F. B i 00
Stanton, Mrs. T. G $2 00
Stevens, F. E 2 00
Stimson, William li 3 00
Thorndike, Mrs. Augustus ... i 00
Timmerman, Miss Edith. ... i 50
Tower, Mrs. Kate 1) i 00
Troescher, A. F 10 00
\aillant, Mrs. G. H 3 00
\'on Zedlitz, Mrs. .Anna
Walker, Miss Mary .\
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2
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White, Horace
Willcox, Prof. M. A
5
10
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Williams, George F 5 00
Winslow, Miss Maria L. C. . . 6 00
Woodward, Dr. S. B 5 00
Wright, Miss Mary A 2 00
Zimmerman, Dr. M. W 5 00
Total $1,701 51
THE VIRGINIA GAME BILL PASSES
By a vote of twenty-four to nine, the
Senate of the Virginia Legislature has
passed the bill of the Farmers' Union and
the Audubon Society for the establishment
of a Commission of Fisheries and
Game. The bill was signed by the Gov-
ernor on March 13, 1916. Thus ends a fight
which the Audubon Society has led in the
Virginia Legislature, session after session,
for many years.
Mr. M. D. Hart, President of the
\'irginia Audubon Society, and others
who have labored hard for the successful
passage of this measure, are to be congratulated.
Now, at least, wc may hope
for some good bird-and-game protection
in that state, for the commissioner will
have power to employ wardens, and will
have funds with which to pay them.
The methods of selecting the local
wardens is rather unusual: From a list of
ten names, submitted by the boards of
supervisors of the counties and the coun-
cils of cities, the commissioner will select
wardens—one for each county and city
in the commonwealth. In communities
of less than 20,000 inhabitants these
oHicers will be paid a salary not to exceed
$50 a month. In more populous communities
their monthly pay will not be in
excess of $60. Special wardens may be
appointed to serve for not more than $3 a
day. The commissioner or any of his
wardens may serve original processes as
sheriffs and constables. Every hunter
who leaves his own premises or those
adjoining his will be required to obtain
from the commissioner a hunter's license.
Residents will be charged $1 for the
privilege of hunting in their county, and
$3 for a state range. Non-residents may
hunt anywhere in Virginia on payment
of v15io.
The victor}' in Virginia leaves only two
states in the Union that have no gamewarden
system. These states are Florida
and Mississippi, which still vie with each
other for the honor of being the Rip Van
Winkle state in the matter of bird-pro-
tection.