198 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



[ Act No. 51 of the Laws of 1893. ] 



AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred and fifty-two 

 of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, being "An act to 

 amend sections one, two and three of act number twenty-nine of the public 

 acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved March fifteen, eighteen 

 hundred and e'ghty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the payment of boun- 

 ties for the killing of English sparrows,' " as amended by act number one 

 hundred and fifty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That sections one and 

 two of act number twenty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 seven, approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, entitled ''An act 

 to provide for the payment of bounties for the killing of English sparrows.'' as 

 ame.nded by act number one hundred and fifty-two of the public acts of eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-nine, be amended so as to read as follows: 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That every person being 

 an inhabitant of this state, who shall kill, "'during the months of November, Decem- 

 ber, January, February and March," an English sparrow in any organized township, 

 village, or city in this State, shall be entitled to receive a bounty of three cents 

 for each sparrow thus killed, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter 

 provided. 



Sec. 2. Every person applying for such bounty shall within said months take 

 such sparrows, in lots of not less than ten, to the clerk of the township, village or 

 city, within which such sparrows shall have been killed, ''and shall thereupon make 

 oath that such sparrows were killed during the aforesaid months mentioned in 

 section one of this act and at no other time.'' 



Said clerk shall thereupon decide upon such application, and if satisfied of the 

 correctness of such claim, shall issue a certificate stating the amount of bounty to 

 which such applicant is entitled and deliver the same to said applicant, and shall 

 destroy such sparrows. 



This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 



Approved April 27, 1893. 



GAME AND FISH WARDEN. 



2197r. 1887, p. 21, Mar. 15, act 28. Section 1. The People of the State of Michi- 

 igan enact, That it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint some person, a 

 resident of this state, game and fish warden. Said warden shall hold his office 

 for four years, or until his successor has been appointed and qualified, unless 

 removed for cause by the Governor; he shall receive a salary of twelve hundred 

 dollars per annum, payable monthly, and shall also be reimbursed his actual 

 expenses necessarily incurred by him while engaged in the performance of his 

 duties, to be paid on the warrant of the auditor general, monthly, on the approval 

 of his vouchers therefor. 



219Ts. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of said game and fish warden to enforce the 

 statutes of this state for the preservation of moose, wapiti, deer, birds and fish, 

 and to enforce all other laws of this state for the protection and propagation of 

 birds, game and fish, now in force or hereinafter enacted, and to bring or cause 

 to be brought actions and ])roceedings in the name of the people of this state to 

 punish any parties for the violation of said statutes and laws. Such actions and 



