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monthly on the warrant of the Auditor General on the approval of his vouchers 

 therefor. Said State Game and Fish Warden shall devote his entire time to the 

 duties of his office. 



Chief Deputy; Compensation: Sec. 2. Said Game and Fish Warden shall have 

 power to appoint a Chief Deputy, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and may 

 revoke such appointment at pleasure. Said Chief Deputy shall take the constitu- 

 tional oath of office, and shall do such work in the game and fish warden department 

 as shall be assigned him. During the sickness, absence or disability of the Game 

 and Fish Warden he may execute the duties of the office. Said Chief Deputy shall 

 devote his entire time to the work of his office and shall receive an annual salary of 

 fifteen hundred dollars, and his actual expenses necessarily incurred, to be paid 

 monthly on tlie warrant of the Auditor General, on the approval of his vouchers 

 therefor by the State Game and Fish Warden. 



Bond: Sec. 3. [State Game Warden shall give bond in the sum of $5000.] 



Acts of 1905, No. 257, p. 370. 



kn act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds. 



Prima facie evidence : Sec. 6. [Possession of deer, or fawn, or skin thereof in 

 red or spotted coat, is prima facie evidence of illegal killing.] 



Prima facie evidence: Sec. 8. No person shall make use of any artificial light in 

 hunting, pursuing or killing deer, or in attempting to hunt, pursue or capture, or 

 kill any deer, and the wearing or having such light on the head or in possession in 

 the woods shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section. 



Prima facie evidence; Killing- dogs: Sec. 9. No person or persons shall make 

 use of a dog in hunting, pursuing or killing deer; the presence of a hound in the 

 woods, hunting camp, logging camp or club house during the deer hunting season 

 shall be prima facie evidence of their unlawful use. Any dog pursuing, killing or 

 following upon the track of a deer is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and 

 may be killed by any person when so seen without criminal or civil liability. 



Burden of proof: Sec. 22. In all prosecutions for a violation of any of the pro- 

 visions of this act, the person or persons claiming the benefit of section twenty 

 [permitting possession of specimens for scientific or educational purposes and of 

 game lawfully killed for five days after close of open season] must show affirmatively 

 as a part of his defense on the examination or trial, that the animal or bird of which 

 the dead body or carcass or skin, or any portion thereof, is shown to have been in 

 his possession during the time when by law the killing of such animal or bird is 

 unlawful, was killed at a time, and in the manner, and for the purpose authorized 

 by law, and that his possession at the time complained of was for one of the pur- 

 poses authorized by said section, and it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to 

 aver or prove that such possession was not for the purposes authorized by said 

 section. 



Separate offense; Prima facie evidence; Liability: Sec. 24. The injuring, 

 destruction or killing or capturing or selling, or having in possession of each animal or 

 bird injured, captured, killed or destroyed, sold or possessed contrary to the provisions 

 of this act shall be a separate offense and the person so offending shall be liaV)le to 

 the penalties and the punishments herein provided for each offense. In all prose- 

 cutions for a violation of any of the provisions of this act, proof of the possession of 

 the dead body, carcass or skin, or any portion thereof, of any animal or bird men- 

 tioned or refeiTcd to in this act [all the game of the State], except as hereinbefore 

 provided at a time when the killing thereof is unlawful, shall be prima facie evi- 

 dence that such animal or bird was killed at a time when the killing thereof was 

 prohibited by law. All persons violating any of the provisions of this act, whether 

 as principal, agent, servant, or employe, shall be equally liable as principal, and any 



