Greensboro, July 11—A special session of the legislature is desired by Guilford people in order to have the county game law repealed, provided the county commissioners will not declare it must not be enforced.
Meeting here today, 18 men, two from each township representative of more than 1,000 who met in mass meeting a week ago, asked the commissioners not to enforce the law and, in the event the commissioners are not able to order it in a dead letter, to petition Governor McLean to call a special session in order to repeal it.
The law, passed at the last session of the General Assembly, was strictly “local legislation” and the farmers, practically all of whom opposed it, claim that it was passed while they were not looking, for the benefit of a few hunters, with drastic provisions, working hardships on land owners and their dogs causing injury to crops.
The Farmers Union today demanded in a resolution that the next General Assembly pass a law providing that what is known as “local legislation” be advertised in the papers of the counties affected by such laws 10 days before passage of such law. This, the farmers feel, will obviate any “sneaking through” of legislation.
Provisions of the game law that enrage the farmers are compulsion to keep dogs up through the summer, no hunting in the snow, no hunting on a neighbor’s land without license. Turning loose of 36 foxes in the county by hunters, while their dogs are made to stay up, has further enraged them.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, July 13, 1925
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