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Title: First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: New Mexico (Ter.) Game and fish warden's dept. (from old catalog) Gable, Thomas P. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Game laws Fishery law and legislation Game and game birds Fishes
Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ficient evidence that they were not entirely innocent of wrong doing.In two other cases where arrests were made the Indians attempted to get the hidesand lieads of their I ooty into the pueblo l)y sending spe<ial couriers awiiy fromthe main body. This, in itself, seemed to me at least strong circumstantial evi-dence that the violators recognized the wrong. They were captured, however,and paid their fine. AYhile in these cases, the costs, inthiding trans))ortation. telegrams, longdistance telejihones and necessary exiuiiditiues. were considerable, yet, the inflic-tion of fines, instead of a term of imprisonment, moiv than met all these expenses,and in addition to this Hie moral effect was sufficiently impressive to bring aboutthe most satisfactory results. There ceems to be no doubt that the reservation Indians, when hunting ontheir reservations, are exempt from arrest for violation of the game laws, butcourt decisions seem to establish the )irinci;ile that Indians found outside the
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EXD OF THE CHASE.Captured by Ruggks and Holder, Taos County. REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. 2o Teservation, with game illegally captured or killed, may be followed onto thereservation and arrested, or the game may be confiscated in transit, if found offthe reservation, even though it was killed on Indian land. This ruling doesnot apply to the Pueblo Indians, they being classed as citizens. This legal statustouching the relation of the reservation Indians to the game laws of the state isthe cause of some difficulty in knowing always just where to draw the line. Inthe main, however, the Indians, at the present time, are causing but little troublefor this department. I am now pleased to report that during the year 1911, I have had no-complaint of the wholesale slaughter of deer, one of my deputy wardens whomI sent on a tour of inspection, reporting that he was unable to find a moc-casin track in the Datil mountains. The same is true in all other parts of thestate, and I a

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