172 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



be subject to removal therefrom at the pleasure of the county judge. Each game 

 warden, before entering on the duty of his office shall execute his bond to the Com- 

 monwealth, with good surety, to be approved by the county judge. 



Duties; Powers; Fees: [Sec] 3. It shall be the duty of fish and game war- 

 dens to enforce within this State all laws relating to the protection, preservation and 

 propagation of fish, birds and game. Each fish and game warden shall have full 

 power to execute and serve all warrants and process of law issued for, in connection 

 with or growing out of, the enforcement of any law relating to the protection, preser- 

 vation or propagation of fish, birds and game in the same manner and to a like 

 extent that any sheriff or constable may serve and execute such process, and shall 

 be entitled to the same fees for said services as are now allowed by law to sheriffs for 

 similar services in criminal cases. They may arrest on sight and without warrant 

 any person detected by them in the act of violating any such law; they shall have 

 the same right as sheriffs to require aid in executing any process or in arresting 

 without process any person found by them in the act of violating any of said laws; 

 and they shall have authority to seize without process any birds, fish or game then 

 found in the possession of any such person, together with the guns, nets, seines, 

 traps or other devices with which the same were taken or killed, and destroy or con- 

 fiscate such guns, nets, seines, traps or other devices, and forthwith convey such 

 offender before a court or magistrate, having jurisdiction of the offense, and such 

 court or magistrate shall, upon the filing by the warden of a proper complaint, pro- 

 ceed speedily to try and determine the truth of the charge. 



Fees: [Sec] 4. After payment of the percentage of fines allowed by law to the 

 other public officers, the remainder shall go to the fish and game warden instituting 

 the prosecution, and upon filing a verified claim with the Auditor, he shall draw his 

 warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of such fish and game warden. 



Approved March 21, 1904. 



Acts of 1904, chap. 107, p. 262. 



Separate offense: [Sec] 3. Each bird or fowl so bought, sold, offered for sale, 

 had in possession for sale or transportation, received for transportation, or trans- 

 ported, contrary to the provisions of this act [prohibiting sale and transportation of 

 wild turkey, pheasant, grouse, partridge and quail], shall constitute a separate 

 offense. 



Approved March 24, 1904. 



LOUISIANA. 



Acts of 1904, No. 126, p. 287. 



Nonresident and alien hunting- license: Sec. 13. [Establishes a $10 hunting 

 license for nonresidents and unnaturalized foreign born residents, requires possession 

 of such license while hunting, and production upon request of any officer.] Every 

 non-resident and unnaturalized foreign born resident found hunting without the 

 aforesaid license may be arrested on sight by any officer or warden * * * 



Nonresident and alien market license: Sec 14. [Establishesa$25 market-hunting 

 Ucense fornonresidents and unnaturalized foreign born residents, and requires produc- 

 tion of the license upon request of any officer.] Every nonresident or unnaturalized 

 foreign born resident hunting game l)irds for profit either to himself or others without 

 said license, may be arrested on sight by any officer * * * 



Fund: Sec 16. * * * That all fees and fines collected under the provisions of 

 this act, except as herein provided, shall go to a fund kept by the State Treasurer 

 called the State game protective fund, of which the State Treasurer shall keep accu- 

 rate accounts and report same to the Governor and General Assembly. 



