officer, and closed doni if the inspection reveals a lack of 
reasonable regard for the public interest. 
Of course most clubs are actually more progressive 
than the surrounding public. It is only the backward ones 
that would ever need to be forced into line. 
5. Regulation of Overshooting: 
In addition to and sometimes independent of the 
burned-out'condition of shooting grounds, there is the important 
question of regulating the number of birds legally killable. 
The stoppage of spring and market shooting of course ,pel out 
the major part of the overshooting problem, but there is a 
residual problem still unsolved. It includes but is biger 
than the question of daily bag limit per person. A group or 
a locality or a region may be over-killing, eitler in point 
of numbers, or in point of season, or in point of methods, 
or in point of crippling loss.          h  present probleM involves 
X    all these things and in addition is related to the adequacy 
of refuges and rest days in each region. 'inding a fair 
method of regulating overshooting which will meet the vagaries 
of ducks,          cli iates, and humans, and which %ill be 
enforceable, is a much more intricate puzzle than I myself 
once thouht. I have no specific solution. I am of the 
opinion, however, thIat there are some remediable defects in 
 
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