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STATE GAME LAWS AS OPERATIVE NOW FULL TEXT OF THE STATUTE FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. ? Primacy of Federal Law A . Recognition of'the Migratory Regulations Included in New State Statute. Following is the text of the game laws now operative in South Carolina: An act to provide for the protection of domestic birds, game and fish and provide for a hunting and fishing license therefor, and provid ing for the appointment 01 game , wardens. Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina, that all wild birds, wild game and fish (except fish in strictly ponds and lakes entirely segregated from other waters) shall be, ' and are here declared to be, the property of the State, v Sec. 2. For the purpose of this act the following classification shall be recognized: (a) Domestic Game Birds?Black birds pheasants, doves, partirdges (quail), and wild turkeys. (b) Destructive Birds?Eagles, buzzards, crows. Cooper's hawk, duck hawk, English sparrow. Great Horned owl, jay birds, loggerheads and sharp skinned hawk. (c) Game Animals?Bear, deer, ^ fox, mink, rats, opossum, otter, rabbits, raccoons, skunk and squirrels. (d) Game Fish?Jackfish, or pickerel, pike, black bass or pond trout,i striped bass or rock fish, Warv . mouth, red-belly, bream, copper-face or ball-faced bream, yellow-belly {perch, sun perch, red-fin, trout, speckled trout, flyer, crapple, rock * ! bass, goggle eye, and white perch. (e) The open season for quail or partridges snail De irom i\uvemuei 15 4o February 15 of each hunting .>? season and the bag limit shall be vy fifteen per day to the hunter, and trapping and snaring of q,uail is absolutely prohibited except as provid.. ed for scientific or propogating purposes. The open season for wild turkeys -shall be from November 15 to April ; 1 of each hunting season, with a bag limit-of two per day and a total of y twenty per season, but no wild tur"hey must at any time be shot from i - any natural or artificial blind or hid. ing place when lured by bait, f/. * ; The provision against snaring quail . or partidges shall apply to wild turkeys. The open season for doves shall be from September 15th to Decem'40r? ber 31st of each year. The open season for blackbirds shall be from October 1st to March ? v 15 of each season. . There shall be a closed season for pheasants for five years after the passage of this act. (f) Destructive Animals?Foxes mov Vo L'jllail hlT ATTl. (M1U ftiiutato U1C?J ut niiivu "J W" " ers and officers of the law upon -t their holdings and without license S" s at any time. (g) All domestic birds not named above are non-game birds and shall not be destroyed in any way at any I time. . (h) The open season for hunting game animals shall be from October 1st to March 15th of each year, ex cept that deer may be hunted from September 1st to December 31st / only.' The bag limit for squirrels shall be fifteen^ 15) per day. Provided, that the open season ? for hunting foxes shall be from September 1st to February 15th of each year. (i) The catching of game fish shall be with hook and line only in / all the clear water streams and waters of the State. (j) Gill nets Cnot to extend more than half way across a stream, lake VI yVLXU. ) , ticty2> UUUl HUCD Ui other devices which does not block the passage of fish in streams, ma> he used in the muddy streams of the N State. Provided, they be not used within one hundred (100) yards of the mouth of clear water streams 0 emptying into same. Provided, further, that a seine or net mav be used ? in fishing between the first day of September and the first day of May. No traps, nets or other devices shall be used at the mouths of or inside of any rice field ditches. , (k) The ticklin'g, pegging or catching of game fish by any means, except rod and line, or hand line, or single set line outside of beds, is strictly forbidden. Sec. 3. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, the offender shall suffer penaltv of fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than twenty-five ($25) dollars, or imprisonment of v not less than ten nor more than thirty days. Sec. 4. It is unlawful to poison the streams or waters of the State in any manner whatsoever for the purpose of taking fish. The muddy-1 ing of streams or ponds or the introduction of any substance which results in making the fish sick so that they may be caught is hereby declared to be poisoning in the sense of this act. Xo sawdust or acid or other injurious substance shall be discharged into any of the streams of the State where fish breed or abound. It shall be unlawful to throw, place or put any dynamite or any other explosive -in any lake, stream or water in the State for the purpose of taking fish. For the violation of this section the person or persons so violating shal". be fined five hundred ($500) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year. Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any transportation company to receive for shipment any of the game birds or animals of the State, except in season, and unless the package containing them shall be so labeled as to show the consignor or consignee and the number and kind of birds and animals. Sec. 6. There shall be no night hunting in this State except for raccoons and opossums and foxes, and the penalty for hunting deer with torches or artificial lights of any kind shall be not more than thirty days or one hundred ($100) dollars fine. Sec. 7. When not otherwise specified the penalty for violation of any part of the game, bird or fish laws of this State shall be a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, the offender shall suffey a penalty of fine of not less than ten dollars or more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment of not less than ten or more than thirty days. Sec. 8. It shall be the positive duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, rural policemen and special officers to actively cooperate with the game department and game a i.L _ wardens in tne eniorcemeiu ui me game and fish laws of the State. Sec. 9. The destruction of birds' nests shall be punishable in the same way as the destruction of the birds. Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any one to hunt within this State without first procuring a license to do so from the deputy game warden in the county in which he may propose to hunt or an adjoining county of the State. A resident of any county shall pay for a county license, a license fee of one and 10-100 ($1.10) dollars. A non-resident shall pay license fee to hunt in any county of three and ten one-hundredths ($3.10) dollars, except land owners and members of their families hunting or fishing on their own lands or in waters on their lands, leased by them. Every non-resident of the State shall pav a hunter's license fee of fifteen and twenty-five one-hundredths ($15.25) dollars during any one season. Provided, any employe residing in this State may fish or hunt on the lands of his employer, owning or leasing the land, by the written permission of the person so owning or leasing or his superintendent with the same privilege as the said owner or person leasing may enjoy. All now rooi/lonto nf +liic OCt. XX. -TXII uuu-icoiu^aio v* State before fishing for game or other fish 'in any manner in the inland streams or waters of this State shall first procure a non-resident fishing | license, the fee for which shall be three and 25-100 ($3.25) dollars. Sec. 12. Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not prevent residents of the State from hunting without license on their own lands in any county of the State. Sec. 13. That the federal migratory bird treaty regulations, being the supreme law of the land under article VI of the constitution of the United States, are hereby declared to be the law of this State, and the penalty for their violation shall be punishment of not less than $10 nor more than $25 fine or thirty days imprisonment. Sec. 14. This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the governor. Approved the 11th day of March, 1919. . 1^ <t> ? , The Price Fiend. Once there was a concern which manufactured what they were pleastd to call "silver" spoons. There was a dealer who bought largely from them, but was always clamoring for a lower price. "But I can't lower the price," the manufacturer would say, "unless I put in more leacl." "Oh, well, more lead by all means," the dealer would say. Some time later the dealer wired that he would take an enormous consignment if the price were cut another ten per cent. "Can't cut price another penny," the manufacturer wired back. "Put in more lead," wired the dealer. "Impossible," was the reply, "last lot shipped you were all lead."? Ammunition. TRAPPED IX A SUBMARINE. And How a Trapped Sailor Made His Escape. The story of a restless English schoolboy who listened wearily as his teacher talked "Boyle's law and Arehimede's principles" and later thanked his lucky stars, is told in the March number of Popular Science .Monthly, by Joseph Brinker: "What was Boyle or the laws that gasces and liquids under pressure obey to him? "The time came, ten years later, when they meant life or death to him. It happened during the war, when he was on the crew of a British submarine.. "His boat was lying idly on the surface of the water. All of the officers and crew except himself were enjoying a holiday ashore. He went below to work in the engine room and left the conning tower hatch open. Then something happened? the young man never knew just what?and the boat lurched down by tne dow. "He thought of the conning tower hatch, and rushed forward to close it. But the water was already pouring in with such force that he was unable to accomplish his purpose. He returned aft to the engine room and locked himself in by means of a watertight door which separated the boat into two compartments. "He was safe temporarily, but the other half of the boat was filling with water and the submarine was sinking lower and lower. "The engine room was in complete darkness, due to the short-cir6uiting of the electric system. Everything he touched shocked him. "The salt water on the storage batteries generating suffocating chlorine gas. He rushed blindly at the engine room hatch and tried to force it open. But his strength was no match for the pressure of the water outside; and, even if he had been able to open it, he would have been no better off, for the water would have rushed in and drowned him before he could possibly get out. "Realizing that his last chance was gone he grew quite calm and, as is the custom of dying folk, reviewed hew fViirinro hew VioH Hnno a n rj thnsp hp ] LLLO A A ^ UUU uvuv mmva v?ww ought not to have done while here .on earth. As he came to that day in school when he unwillingly learned of pressure he stopped. Water, gas. pressure?what about them? "TTien he remembered that, in the case of a body submerged in water, the combined force of gas within and the strength of the body material must equal the force of the water without, or the water would crush the body in. Just -so the combined force of the air in the submarine I and ..the steel hatch equaled the force of the -water pressing down on it. If he could make the force of the air t in the boat equal to the pressure of the water on the boat, then the hatch would be relieved of the strain of holding off the water and would be easily lifted. "How could he increase thtf force of the afr? Then he thought of Boyle's law, which he had been forced to memorize on the long-ago schoolday?the volume of a gas varies inversely with its pressure. If he decreased the volume of the gas in the submarine he might increase the pressure enough to make it equal that of the water. This done 1 1 A k/N in nnniliVirinm Uie XiaiCXl WUU1U UC 1U C4U1UUHUUJ and consequently easily moved. "His next problem was how to decrease the volume of the air. There was only one way to do this?by letting the water in. If he did that he would be taking a last desperate chance, for he did not know how much compressing the air needed before it would exeh a force equal to that of the water outside. If this failed him, he would drown without a doubt. "He decided to take the chance So groping in the dark, he opened the bilge valve and let the water in. As it crept up about his waist he philosophically decided that he would much rather drown than suffocate anyway. But when it reached his waist he grew somewhat nervous and thought he'd better try the hatch. "He pushed against it, and it opened slightly; but it slammed shut again crushing his fingers, for the pressure of the air was not yet great enough to resist the water without the aid or tne natcn. "Nursing his injured fingers he waited stoically until the water in the engine room reached the hatch coaming. Then with just head above water, his eardrums strained from the compressed air, he made a final .attempt to raise the unwilling hatch. "His patience, bravery and coolheadedness were rewarded. At last the air was compressed enough to equal the force of the water and the hatch moved easily. "After helping him thus far, physics decided to see him through. The compressed air in the submarine repelled the water which was trying J hard to pour in and drown him. The WHALEY SHOWS UP CLARK. Would Have Him State Position on < the league. Washington. March 21.?Congressman Richard Whaley, who is a , member of the Democratic reorgani- . zation executive committee of the , house, today issued a statement again i calling attention to the fact that ; Speaker Clark has not publicly taken a position on the League of Nations, and suggesting that he will be forced into advocacy of the League by party sentiment and the action of Democrats in the Missouri legislature in demanding the resignation 01 Senator Reed. Mr. Whaley also emphasized the partiality exhibited for Mr. Clark by reactionary Republicans, notably Mr. Mann. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. air shot upward with great force, taking the sailor along with it to the surface of the water and leaving him there breathless. "After he had righted himself and shaken the water from his eyes he looked about and saw, at a little distance away, a friendly destroyer, j which soon picked him up. "Such an experience must surely, force on any man a great respect for: school teachers?and fate." SLAIX BY NEGRO CONVICT. Fatal Shot Fired Near Spartan burg, j Posse Makes Search. ' I Spartanburg, March 20.?A posse; composed of Sheriff W. J. White, j county and city police officers and at large number of Spartanburg men; are tonight scouring the country in j the neighborhood of Cowpens for! Ivey Littlejohn, who this morning! shot and fatally wounded J. S. Hoi-! bert, a native of Hendersonville, N. i C., who was engaged with convict la-; bor in constructing a concrete bridgej on the National highway about four j miles west of this city. Thus far the j negro has not been located, but it is! believed that his arrest will come before morning. Littlejohn shot Mr. Holbert this , morning after he had slipped up behind the guard, struck him over the head with a stone and then removed the pistol from Mr. Holbert's pocket. Mr. Holbert was found a few minutes 'later and brought to a hospital here, but the bullet had taken a fatal course and death came at 11 o'clock this morning. The coroner's jury this afternoon returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death at the hands of Ivey Littlejohn. Mr. Holbert was a native of Hendersonville and is survived by his widow and several children. The re-' > mains were taken to Hendersonville 1 this afternoon for interment. Two other convicts escaped with ' Littlejohn, but they later voluntarily | surrendered and declared that JLit- i tlejohn had forced them to flee. IWiTP : IjULSLM CAMP JACKSON PERMANENT. Government Plans Purchase of Laml Including Site. Columbia. March 20.?Camp Jackson will be a permanent cantonment and additional acreage will be pur-1 aliased by the government in addition to the present site, according to] a telegram from Washington from J former Senator Christie Benet. Mr. I f T1 I Tone fx y f proves \ 1 NEW I YY VV stand. f > I jk "The tone test advertises X X Iy. Who evolved the idea? XX makers of the New Edison. "The tone test evolved its evitable that the final perfe< be accompanied by some coi XX ting its merit. It is not a d< X X ment. It is merely a method t X claim that it is impossible to in? artist frnm that nf ? 4 -If The NEV <. ? "The Phonogn 4, 4 Unqueustionably the tone XX a famous star of >fetrop beside the New Edison on th< ment begins to play one of 1 a moment, the singer joins ii - volume of sound diminishes. U The question is which; sing< M. identical are the two rendi t watched the singer's lips, hai y y was the singer he heard and It is only the New Ediso voice. Other devices merelj Edison which has been subj< No other instrument could s I X X ^a11 at our store tomorro I XX this marvelous invention. |w.h.ci XX T. Black's Old Stand, z:K ' < out f( For, with Prince Albert, you've goi that cuts you loose from old stui Made by our exclusive patented : trom bite and parch and hands you that ever was scheduled in your di Prince Albert is a pippin of a p beats the band! Get the slant ths man ever longed for in tobacco! figure up the sport you've slippe Albert quality flavor and quality sa You'll talk kind words every time y Toppy red bags, tidy red tins, handso dors?and?that classy, practical p sponge moistener top that keeps the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Cora Benet gives Assistant Secretary of War Crowell as his authority. The telegram, addressed to J. D. Miott, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, reads: "Camp Jackson is permanent. Secretary Crowell assured me so today and issued orders putting same into effect. 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