Show THE NEW GAME LAW in our last issue vie we gave the salient points from the council file nc ne 12 the new fish and game law lawo of utah territory ry passed march 8 1884 as far as the finny tribes were concerned according to promise we will now endeavor to present the leading features of the same act that refer to the game same on foot and on wing that which roani gUnd browses on the hills bills and in the timber thickets as well as that which takes ila its winged flight through the air section one of the law treats of the fowl it provides that every very person who between the fifteenth day flay of march and ind the fifteenth day of august in each year wilfully takes kills destroys or alk offers boners for eale sale quail partridges or grouse or who between 1 tho the fifteenth day april and the fifteenth day of september in each year wilfully takes kills de destroy jor bior offers boners for sale an any y kind of wild ducks or who shall at any time rob rot the neat nest of the above antio mentioned ned birds or who shall kill any wild duck between one hour after sunset and and one hour before sunrise or who shall kill an any y quail or any imported import cd game birds or their progeny for or three years next ensuing tho the passage of this act ahall shall be a misdemeanor the new features of this section are those giving protection to 0 wild ducks in the night time the specification fi of game birds and the fixing of the term of protection for dc game gaine birds and the fixing of tho the time of protection for three years these features will find universal acclamation clai cla aaion in the interest of the harboring and perpetuating of those valuable breeda breeds on an which such a cruel a and ad merciless war of f el extermination bermi has hitherto been waged without let or hindrance io sections attention is devoted to the protection ot of the fleet ants that in inhabit the mountain Z heights having been wien almost entirely driven from the valley pasturages rages and hillsides hill sides by the ruthless firearm and in not a few instances tho the still more wore murderous poison of man it ennett that every emery person who between th the birst first da day 4 of december of each year and the first day of the september following takes kills or destroys any elk deer ma mountain uri 1 tain sheep or antelope or who shall at nt any time kill any of the above ani mali for wins is guilty of a misdemeanor provided that per cons sons camping camp ingin in the mountains may during the months of july and august kill sufficient of the males mal es of the abobo animals to furnish themselves e s food focia while eo to eam camping ping this th a gives the quadrupeds in tiou a respite of nine mouths months to grow and propagate their species so aa as to prevent a out that entire intire bradica r w t tion of their kinds which has been menacing them for some yearn years past by tho so often wilful useless tu eless merely destructive pursuit of the four footed denizens of the moun talu A new and very urgently needed provision of the law sc 11 appropriate to provide for the 1 stoppage of a hideous habit babit lately indulged in by the indians indiana in in slaughtering laught ering pieer deer merely for dwir kins skins leaving the carcasses unused says that the provisions of this act apply to indians indiana who kill deer for their this is a provision rendered absolutely necessary by the recent reckless depredations on the part of indiana whose ien Beni elesa seless slaughter of game limply for the hides has decimated the ranks of those fine animals to a deplorable almost irreparable degree and actually rendered lefiti mate hunting in this neighborhood e almost an impossibility As it is much more difficult to prevent the killing of game by leg legs isla tive enactment than to discover and punish such actions when the ill gotten product of the breach of law reaches tho the market the strict fe guard of the old law is retained which provides that every very person who buye sells or has in his posses riou tion any of the game enumerated in tho the two sections taken or killed within the unas timo during which the taking or or killing n 9 pro habited hibit hibi ted cd eill except buch as nie are tamed ant e or kept for mr dhow vr curiosity ami and every person p creots who buys eells leeNs or offers for sale the skin of any an animal tho the killing of which is herein prohibited is guilty of a misdemeanor this may sound or seem rather carali and severe but wo we cannot see in which other way the authority of justice could be dainta maintained 1 luied and the principles of the law a W enforced any one dealing in home game in prohibited season certainly constitutes himself what might be called a receiver of stolen goods rendering himself liable to the penalties affixed to his misdemeanor on tho the whole and in particular we wish to repeat it the new fish and game law docs does its framers credit and we hope it will 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