Although Mr. L.T. Carleton is no longer chairman of the Commission of Inland Fisheries and Game, the splendid services that he rendered the state of Maine during his thirteen years of service, especially in the creation of a good code of game laws, constitute an imperishable monument to his name and fame. There is very little that Maine needs in the line of new legislation, or better protection to her game. With the enactment of a resident license law and a five-year close season for woodcock, plover, snipe and sandpipers, I think her laws for the protection of wild life would be sufficiently perfect for all practical purposes. The Pine-Tree State is to be congratulated upon its wise and efficient handling of the wild-life situation. MARYLAND: How has it come to pass that Maryland _lacks_ more good wild-life laws than any other state in the Union except North Carolina? Of the really fundamental protective laws, embracing the list that to every self-respecting state seems indispensable, Maryland has almost none save certain bag-limit laws! Otherwise, the state is wide open! It is indeed high time that she should abandon her present attitude of hostility to wild life, and become a good neighbor. She should do what is _fair_ and _right_ about the protection of the migratory game and bird life that annually passes twice through her territory! At the last session of the Maryland legislature, the law preventing the use of power boats in wild-fowl shooting was repealed. That was a step ten years backward; and Maryland should be ashamed of it! The list of things that Maryland must do in order to clear her record is a long one. Here it is: Local regulations should be replaced by a uniform state law. The sale of all native wild game should be stopped. Spring and late winter shooting of game should be stopped. All non-game birds not already included under the statutes should be protected. The exportation of all game should be prohibited, unless accompanied by the man who shot it, bearing his license, and the law should be state-wide instead of depending upon a separate enactment for each county. There should be a hunter's license law for all who hunt. The use of machine shotguns in hunting should be stopped, at once. Stop the use of power boats in wild-fowl shooting. MASSACHUSETTS: