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tive fund, and may be drawn and used by said commissioners from time to time as 

 to them may seem necessary, with the approval of the governor and council. 



Powers: Sec. 13. The fish and game commissioners, their deputies and detectives, 

 in the performance of their duties shall have the powers of constables, and shall also 

 have authority to arrest, on view, within the limits of the state, any person violating 

 any of the lish and game laws. 



Prima facie evidence: Sec. 30. If any person shall at any time have in his pos- 

 session the carcasses or hides of any moose, caribou, elk, or fawn, or the parts 

 thereof, or the carcasses or hides or i)arts thereof of more than two deer, in the open 

 season on deer, or the carcasses or hides or parts thereof of any deer when it is 

 unlawful to take or kill deer, or the carcasses or hides or parts thereof of any other 

 animal mentioned in this act when it is unlawful to take or kill such animal, it shall 

 be prima facie evidence that such person has hunted and killed the same contrary 



to law. 



Special regulations: Sec. 33. [Fish and game commissioners shall prescribe 

 rules and regulations for transporting out of the state game animals legally killed on 

 the Blue ^Mountain Forest Preserve.] 



Approved March 20, 1901. 



Laws of 1905, chap. 38, p. 428. 



An act to require non-re.sidenls to procure a license to hunt. 



Production of license: Sec. 4. No license shall be valid unless the signature of 

 the person to whom it is issued is written thereon, and every such person shall at all 

 times when hunting carry his license on his person, and shall at all reasonable times 

 and as often as requested produce and show such license to any person requesting 

 him so to do, and if he fails or refuses to do so he shall forfeit such license and be 

 deemed to l)e hunting in violation of the provisions of this act. 



Arrest of licensee: Sec. 9. The fish and game commissioners and the detect- 

 ives in their employ shall have the right, after demand and refusal or failure to 

 exhibit such license, to arrest without warrant any non-resident person or persons 

 found hunting, pursuing or killing any wild animal, wild fowl or bird, and for the 

 purpo.se of this arrest any person who shall refuse to state his name and place of 

 residence on demand of such oflScer shall be deemed a non-resident. 



Disposition of license fees: Sec. 10. The fee for the license provided for in the 

 preceding sections of this act shall be ten dollars, the money received by the com- 

 missioners for the issuance thereof shall be turned over to the state treasurer, who 

 shall credit the same to the detective fund, so called, to be expended as otherwise 

 provided for by law and under the same supervision as any other moneys belonging 

 to the said fund. 



Approved March 1, 1905. 



Laws of 1905, chap. 98, p. 515. 

 An act to prohibit the use of swivel and punt guns. 



Confiscation of big guns: Sec. 1. If any person shall, at any time, within this 

 state, hunt, pursue, shoot at, or kill any game bird, as defined by section 34 of chap- 

 ter 79 of the Laws of 1901, with any punt-gun, swivel-gun, or other gun not fired 

 from the shoulder, or of larger bore than ten-gauge, he shall be fined not more than 

 ten dollars for each offense and shall forfeit all guns and implements with which the 

 offense was committed. And all guns and implements so used shall be seized by 

 any detective, constable or police officer and shall be destroyed by the person seizing 

 them. 



Approved March 10, 1905. 



