212 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



to make payment of the said penalty and costs within ten days from the date of 

 such conx-iction, to sell the same at public auction and apply the funds thus realized 

 first to the payment of the said costs and the balance thereof, if there be any, to the 

 payment of the penalty imposed; and should any balance still remain to pay the 

 same to the owner of the property so seized. 



Nonliability : Sec. 3. No game iirotector or game warden shall be liable for dam- 

 ages on account of any such arrest, seizure or sale in accordance with the provisions 

 of this act. 



Approved April 22, 1902. 



Acts of 1903, chap. 246, p. 526. 



Prima facie evidence : Sec. 8. [As amended by Laws of 1904, chap. 231.] * * * 

 and the having in possession of any such goose, duck, swan, brant or other water 

 wild' fowl during the period prohibited in this section [May 1-Sept. 1] shall, in 

 everv court and place, be deemed prima facie evidence that the same are unlawfully 

 in possession. 



Prima facie evidence: Sec. 16. [As amended by Laws of 1906, chap. — ] * * * 

 and the having in possession of any such deer during the times and periods prohib- 

 ited in this act [until Nov. 10, 1909] shall be prima facie evidence in all cqurts and 

 places of the fact that they are in possession unlawfully. 



Approved April 14, 190.3. 



Acts of 1905, chap. 87, p. 184. 



Conviction: [Sec] 1. The conviction in prosecutions under the act [1897, chap. 41] 

 to which this is a supplement shall be in the following or similar form: 

 State of New Jersey, \ 



CI / So. 



OUNTY OF , J 



Be it remembered, that on this day of , A. D. nineteen hundred and 



at in said county, defendant, was, by one of the 



justices of the peace in and for said county (or by the district court or police magis- 

 trate, as the case may be), convicted of violating the section of an act of legis- 

 lature of said state entitled "An act for the protection of certain kinds of birds, game 

 and fish, to regulate their method of capture and provide open and close seasons for 

 such capture and possession ( Revision of 1903)," approved April fourteenth, nine- 

 teen hundred and three (or if violation l)e of a supplement or amendment, then state 



title of act and date of approval), in a summary proceeding at the suit of 



-, one of the fish and game wardens of said state, plaintiff (or as the case may 



be), upon complaint made l)y ; and further, that the witnesses in said 



proceeding who testified for the plaintiff were (name them), and the witnesses who 

 testified for the defendant were (name them); whereupon said justice of the peace 

 (or district court or police magistrate, as the case may be) doth hereby give judg- 

 ment that the plaintiff recover of the defendant, , penalty and 



costs of this proceeding. 



Said conviction shall be signed by the justice of the peace, judge of the district 

 court or police magistrate before whom the conviction is had. 

 Approved March 31, 1905. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Laws of 1903, chap. 48, p. 74. 



Game warden; Bond; Salary: Sec. 1. Within thirty days after the passage of 

 this act, there shall be appointed by the governor of the territory of New ^lexico, 

 an officer to be known as the game and fish warden of the Territory of New Mexico, 

 whose term of office shall be two years and until his successor shall be appointed 

 and qualified, and whose duties shall be prescribed by this act. [Warden must 



