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specified as the first day of the week. 
Penalties under these laws are generally fines of not more than $25 or 
thirty days in jail, or both and costs, which are similar to that pro- 
vided in the Horton Trespass Law. When these earlier acts were passed, 
trespass by hunters on Sunday was brought under the penal code. Under 
the Horton Trespass Law this feature was extended to each day of the 
week. 
3. Complaints and Arrests: 
In the laws for the following counties, complaint for violation can be 
made only by the landholder on whose land the trespass occurs: Huron, 
Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair and Wayne townships. 
Under these acts, officers of the law including Conservation Officers, 
are authorized to make arrests without warrant under the following con- 
ditions: (1)upon apprehending persons violating the acts, (2) on re- 
quest of landholders on whose land the violation occurs. 
Officers of the law, including Conservation Officers, may make arrests 
without warrant on apprehending violators without reference to land- 
holders in the following counties: Saniliac Shiawassee and Washtenaw. 
No mention is made in these acts of complaint by the landholder on 
whose lands the hunting or trespass occurs. The rejected act for Gen- 
esee county was devised in this way. 
The new acts assed by the Legislature of 1931 for Clinton, Hillsdale, 
Lenawee and 0onroe counties, prohibit hunting 6y anyone for game on 
Sunday on any lands or premises in those counties. No mention is made 
of "the lands of another" or of landholders. Landholders are included

with other persons in the general prohibition. 
In these new acts passed by the 1931 Legislature "hunting for game on

any lands on Sunday" is prohibited. The law for Sanillac county en-

acted in 1929, has the same general application. 
All of the counties for which Sunday hunting laws are in effect are 
in thickly settled agricultural counties and all are in the southeast- 
ern quarter of the southern peninsula. With the exception of Genesee 
county they comprise a solid block extending south from the Thumb to 
and around Wayne county. Does the threatened closing of Clinton and 
Hillsdale counties in 1932 portend a westward spread of Sunday hunting 
bans? 
                                      Sincerely yours, 
 
 
                                         Eari 0.cDeyTry 
                                         Executi ve Becretary 
 
 
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