On this date in 1909, Grant County Representative T. E. Grant introduced a general state game bill to replace the countless county bills. Because multiple legislators, within the period of several years, had submitted and passed a multitude of local county game and fish bills, the situation for the Arkansas outdoorsman was confusing and frustrating. County residents did not know the laws in their own counties, let alone those of their neighbors. A hunter could pass form one field to another and break the law in one and not the other, simply by passing the county line. Legislators altered, added, or deleted the laws every session so that an activity that was lawful one year, was unlawful the next. Beginning around 1909, a few lawmakers believed that Arkansas needed state game and fish laws, not local arbitrary and confusing laws. Unfortunately, this general law did not pass.
Arkansas Wildlife History 