10 State H orticultnral Society. 



•answer to his people for his deeds, rather than to give it into the hands of 

 a game warden and an attorney of his own choosing. 



Section 5 is as follows: ''Said game warden shall have the same 

 power to serve criminal process as sheriffs or marshals and shall have 

 the same right as sheriffs or marshals to require aid in the execution of 

 such process ; said game, warden may arrest, without warrant, any person 

 caught by him in the act of violating any of the laws of this State, for 

 the protection or propogation of birds, game or fish, and take such person 

 forthwith before a justice of the peace or any court having jurisdiction 

 who shall proceed without delay to hear, try and determine the matter, 

 the same as in other criminal cases." And this power is not only given 

 to the game warden but is given to each of his deputies and he is given 

 power to appoint as many as he pleases, and whom he pleases. 



Now of course, if the game warden to be, prepared this law or had 

 anything to do with it, he would provide a method for getting his pay of 

 course. Well, he is provided for in this bill and this to me is the most 

 ■obnoxious part of the bill. It is a wellknown fact that no legislature 

 would not vote to pay him out of the general revenue, so another method 

 must be devised. So some scheme must be devised that will pass the leg- 

 islature and still get the money. They have found it and section 27 pro- 

 vides and savs : "It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to hunt 

 -or kill any game animal or bird in this State off his own property at any 

 season of the vear, without first having obtained a hunter's license." 

 Each person procuring a resident hunter's license, shall, when the same 

 is issued, pay to the county clerk a license fee of one dollar. Each 

 person procuring a non-resident hunter's license shall, when the same 

 is issued, pay to the county clerk a license fee of twenty-five dollars. In 

 addition to the license fees herein mentioned, each person procuring 

 either a resident or non-resident hunter's license shall pay to the county 

 clerk for his services in taking the affidavit and issuing the license, a fee 

 of fifty cents. It shall be the duty of the county clerk on the first of 

 each month to remit all fees collected for hunter's licenses to the game 

 warden. By other sections of this law the game warden is empowered 

 to issue other and various permits for other and various purposes and 

 charge for the same, all of vv'hich goes into and is set apart for the pay 

 of the game warden and his deputies. 



This feature of the bill I can not stand for. I am not yet ready to say 

 that every boy within my district who shall kill a quail on the land of 

 another, who permits him to go there, without first paying to the game 

 warden and his deputies and the county clerk a dollar and a half, shall 

 be guilty of a crime. I would prefer to pass any laws protecting game, 



