Show HUNTERS WOULD LD DEFRAUD STATE 4 Holding Back Coyote Scalps to Reap Benefit of New lawI Law I MAKE 50 CENTS ON EACH ACH ONE 0 I AUDITOR WRITES LET LETTERS TEES OP OF WARNING t I State St Auditor Charies S has reasons for f r believing bel ng that hunters ranchmen ranc men and farmers throughout g Utah Uth are preparing to the state te treasury of hun af at dollars just as i soon as tile new coyote c ote bounty bount act becomes bec mesa a law They are he believes bel eves withholding old scalps until they can receive recel e the extra i it 10 cents c as provided by the last legislature So positive is the auditor that unscrupulous persons are preparing to t try to get more for I their scalps than the law J w intends they shall that he has bas written a letter to every county cl clerk rk in the state fore forewarning f forewarning re I warning them And at the same time tune he provides a means whereby the eon con contemplated unlawful acts can be circum circumvented circumvented vented ted e Under the old law which does not expire pIre until May lIa II 19 coyote scalps are redeemed at 1 each The new law places the redemption price pric by county clerks at A letter from a man in I 1 Iron county informs Auditor Tinge I that persons in that section of the state are holding their coyote scalps which they should redeem now at U 1 each until after the th new law goes into effect when they will wUl tv receive 1150 per hide The Increase on hides is not sup supposed supposed supposed I posed to apply except upon animals which are kilted kil after the new now law Jaw I goes into Ito effect but in spite of that fact according Id to the letter received by bythe bythe bythe the auditor men not only In Iron county but in other counties are awaiting the enforcement of or the new law that they may dispose of hides taken from animals shot while the old law was in force f I IThe iThe The auditor yesterday sent the fol following following lowing letter to every county clerk apprising them of the information he has received and telling them thorn how to avoid being imposed upon It reads as follows letter of Warning With reference to the state bounty act as amended by the th last legislature the question has arisen as to whether or not persons are entitled to the In Increased Increased Increased creased bounty on coyotes on and after May W 11 1 I learn that In some cases persons are withholding the skins of these animals until the of May lIay expecting to receive a bounty of under the new law Section 1 of the new bounty law provides that there shall be paid as hereinafter provided for the knifing killIng within the boundaries of this state of animals hereinafter named the following bounties For each coyote so killed etc Section 2 provides as follows Any person killing kUling within this state after the passage of this act one or more of the above named animals etc I You will observe from the above aboe quotations from the bounty act that the Increased bounty on coyotes can cannot cannot cannot not be applied to animals animate killed to the date the new law becomes ef effective effective which is May 10 1903 1905 I would suggest sug est that tb t for a period of sixty days after the tho new law becomes effective you include in the affidavit made by bythe byth bythe the th claimant where the increased bounty bount is demanded a clause stating that said animal or animals were killed subsequent nt to May 10 1903 I 1 would also call can attention to the fact tact tha the fee tee of ot 5 cents provided for forI under the old eld law has been cumin eliminated I |