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Search, warrant: [Sec] 191. Any justice of the peace, police justice, county 

 judge, judge of a city court or magistrate having criminal jurisdiction, shall if it 

 ai)pear probable that fish or game taken or possessed contrary to the provisions of 

 this act, is concealed, issue a search warrant for the discovery thereof, according to 

 the practise provided in sections 794 to 797 inclusive of the code of criminal procedure. 



Incriminating evidence: Sec. 193. [As amended by Laws of 1903, chap. 353.] 

 No person shall be excused from testifying in any civil or criminal action or proceed- 

 ing taken or had under this act upon the ground that his testimony might tend to 

 convict him of a crime. But no evidence derived from the examination of such per- 

 son shall be received against him upon a criminal prosecution. A person called for 

 the people and so testifying shall not thereafter be liable to indictment or conviction 

 for the violation or violations of this act respecting which he has so testified, and 

 may plead or prove the giving of sui-h testimony in bar of such an indictment or con- 

 viction. 



Prima facie evidence: Sec. 4. [As amended by Laws of 1906, chap. 478.] Wild 

 deer or venison shall not be possessed or sold from Novemlier 25 to September 30 

 both inclusive. Possession thereof from midnight of the fifteenth to the twenty- 

 fourth of November shall be presumptive evidence that the same was unlawfully 

 taken by the possessor. 



Prima facie evidence; Killing dogs: Sec. 9. [As amended by Laws of 1901, 

 chap. 545. Prohibits hounding deer.] If any such dog or bitch be found hunting, 

 pursuing or killing deer or running at large in forests inhabited by deer, it shall be 

 presumptive evidence of a violation of this section by the person owning, using, 

 having or harboring such dog or bitch. Any person may, and it is the duty of every 

 game protector to kill a dog or bitch found in the Adirondack park or in a deer forest, 

 or pursuing deer and no action for damage shall be maintained against a person for 

 such killing. 



Destroying nets, etc. : [Sec] 35. [Prohibits trapping, netting, or snaring birds.] 

 Any such net, trap or snare is declared to be a public nuisance, and may be summa- 

 rily abated and destroyed by any person and it is the duty of every protector to seize 

 and destroy any such device. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 

 Revisal of 1905, chap. 40, p. 564. 



Incorporation of Audubon Society: [Sec] 1862. J. Y.Joyner, T.Gilbert Pearson, 

 R. H.Lewis, A. H. Boyden,H.H.Brimley, P. D. Gold, Jr., J. F. Jordan and R. N. Wil- 

 son are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the 

 Audubon Society of North Carolina, and by that name and style they and their asso- 

 ciates and successors shall have perpetual succession, with power to take and hold, 

 either by gift, grant, purchase, devise, bequest or otherwise, any real or personal 

 estate, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, for the general use and advance- 

 ment of the purposes of the said corporation, or for any special i»urpose, consistent 

 with the charter; and such property shall be exempt from taxation; to make rules 

 and by-laws; U> have and to use a conunon seal, and to change the same at pleasure; 

 and to do and perform all such acts and things as are or may become necessary for 

 the advancement and furtherance of the corporation. 



Officers: [Sec] 1863. The officers of said corporation shall l)c a president, vice- 

 president, secretary and treasurer, and suc-h other officers as may be fixed by the 

 by-laws. 



Objects: [Sec] 1864. The objects fur which the corporation is formed are to pro- 

 mote among the citizens of North Carolina a better appreciation of the value of song 

 and insectivorous birds to n)an and the state; to encourage parents and teachers to 

 give instruction to children on the subject; to stimulate public sentiment against the 



