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(4) Administrative provisions: Any person may institute proceedings to 

 enforce game law, prosecuting attorney and informant each entitled to a fee of $5 to 

 be paid by defendant. Seized game to be sol<l and proceeds used in paying expenses 

 of seizure, the balance to be paid into the school fund; possession of game in close 

 season prima facie e\idence of unlawful capture; proof of probable cause for believ- 

 ing in concealment of game unlawfully possessed ground for issuance of search warrant 

 to examine any place. 



Prosecution must be begun within three years. 



KANSAS. 



(1) Officers: State fish and game warden; office established in 1905; term, four 

 years; salary, $1,500 per annum. 



Duties. — Enforcement game and fish laws, including inspection at reasonable times 

 of all places where meat, fish, and game are kept for sale, shipment, or storage for 

 pay. 



Deputy fish and game tvardens. — One or more for each county, appointed by State 

 warden upon request of ten or more resident taxpayers; removable by State warden 

 at any time; entitled to same mileage as constables, and to receive $10, collected as 

 costs from defendant, in cases of conviction when arrest made by them. 



State warden and deputies invested with power of constables or police officers to 

 arrest, without warrant, persons caught in act of violating the law, and with a warrant 

 under other circumstances, and to bring the offenders Vjefore a proper court for trial; 

 may demand production of a hunting license by holder. 



(2) Oth.er officers: Constables, marshals, and police officers required to inquire 

 into and prosecute all violations of game laws, and to make complaint in such cases 

 without being lialjle for costs; may demand production of hunting license by holder; 

 neglect to prosecute renders them guilty of misdemeanor. If county attorney fails 

 to prosecute any case the court may appoint an attorney to conduct it, who shall 

 receive fee of $10, to l)e collected from the defendant upon conviction. 



(3) Game protection fund: License fees paid into State treasury to credit of the 

 State game and fish warden fund. 



(4) Administrative provisions: Unnecessary for State in any prosecution to 

 allege or prove the true or ornithological name of any bird, or that such bird was 

 not taken for scientific purposes; possession of game, except by person lawfully 

 killing it, or of Hungarian partridge, or Mongolian or Chinese pheasants, except for 

 propagation, prima facie evidence of violation of law; violation as 'to each animal or 

 bird a separate off ense ; $25 reward to be paid any person furnishing evidence leading 

 to conviction for killing antelope. 



Prosecution must be begun within two years. 



KENTUCKY. 



(1) Officers: County fish and game wardens, one or more for each county; ap- 

 pointed by the county judge to serve dui'ing his pleasure under bond approved by 

 him; compensation, residue of all fines, in cases prosecuted by them, after payment 

 of costs and expenses to other public officers, and usual slieriff's fees for serving and 

 executing process. 



Duties and powers. — Required to enforce all laws for protection of fish, game, and 

 birds. Authorized to execute and serve all warrants issued in any case under the 

 game laws, with powers of sheriffs; to arrest, without warrant, any person detected 

 in the act of violating tlie law; to re(|uire aid in the execution of any process or in 

 arresting, without warrant, any person found in act of violating the law; to seize, 

 without warrant, game in the jjossession oi any person found in act of violating the 

 law and to confiscate sncii game and destroy tiie guns or other implements with 



