Summary
The Charlevoix County Herald reprinted a State of Michigan Conservation Commission order signed and ordered published on September 9, 1938. The order prohibited hunting, taking, or killing wild animals or birds during the open deer season in St. James Township on Big Beaver Island for five years beginning November 15, 1938.1
The document supplies the legal basis and geographic description behind the closure later discussed in the July 1938 newspaper report. It names P. J. Hoffmaster as Director of the Department of Conservation.1
Evidence and limits
The issuance date is the order’s signed-and-published date; November 15, 1938 is the stated effective date. The held reprint does not establish the precise expiration-day convention, the underlying investigation file, or whether the order was amended, superseded, or enforced in a particular case.
Open questions
- Where is the original 1938 order or the Department of Conservation file?
- Did the five-year restriction end automatically, or was it renewed or amended before the 1938 reopening report?
- What were the exact legal boundaries of Town 39 N., Range 10 W. in the contemporaneous order?
See also
- Beaver Island
- Beaver Island Deer Hunting Reopened for the 1938 Season
- Michigan Conservation Commission (Beaver Island game orders)
- P. J. Hoffmaster (1938–1941 Beaver Island conservation orders)
Footnotes
Sources
- State of Michigan, Order of the Conservation Commission — Deer — Certain Area Beaver Island, signed and ordered published September 9, 1938; reprinted in Charlevoix County Herald, October 9, 1942.Direct reprint of the order: five-year closure beginning November 15, 1938, covering deer hunting in St. James Township, Town 39 N., Range 10 W., Big Beaver Island; signed by P. J. Hoffmaster as Director, Department of Conservation.
- Charlevoix County Herald, October 9, 1942, raw issue OCR.Held raw OCR preserves the printed legal order independently of the normalized Markdown rendering.