258 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



Duties of commissioner and wardens: Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the State 

 Commissioner, and also the duty of the Chief Fish and Game Warden to see that all 

 laws of the State for the protection of fish and game are faithfully enforced in the 

 several counties, and for this purpose they respectively are severally hereby given 

 the same powers and authority granted by the laws of the State to and exercised by 

 sheriffs and constables. The State Commissioner, each of his special deputies and 

 every Chief Warden throughout the State, and every sheriff and constable in his 

 respective county, is authorized and required to enforce this act, and seize any game 

 or fish taken or held in violation of this act, and he shall have full power and author- 

 ity, and it shall be the duty of every such officer, with or without a warrant, to arrest 

 any person whom he has reason to believe guilty of a violation thereof; and if, with- 

 out a warrant, to hold him until a warrant can be procured; to open, enter and 

 examine all cars, stages, packs, warehouses, stores, outhouses, boxes, barrels and 

 packages where he has reason to believe any game or fish taken or held in violation 

 of this act, is to be found, and to seize the same; and, provided, that if such search or 

 seizure be made without a warrant, the officer making the same must procure a 

 warrant therefor as soon as possible during or after the search or seizure; and pro- 

 vided further, that a dwelling house actually occupied can be entered for examination 

 only in the pursuance of a warrant. It shall be the duty of the Chief Game Wardens 

 to report their official acts in detail to the State Commissioner annually during and 

 not later than the first week in December, and oftener if so required by the State 

 Commissioner. 



Game protection fund: Sec. 14. [Hunting license fees to be paid into the State 

 treasury to the credit of the fish and game fund.] 



Seizure; Prima facie evidence: Sec. 25. Any person who shall have in his pos- 

 session any game, fish or birds taken unlawfully is guilty of a misdemeanor. All 

 fish or game taken or held unlawfully or shipped or consigned for shipment out of 

 this State shall be seized by the State or any Fish and Game Warden and disposed of 

 to the best interest of the State Fish and Game fund in which said seizure may be 

 made. The possession of any animal, fish or bird, or of the remains or any part of 

 the remains thereof, within the time or period within which the taking or killing or 

 possession of the same is prohibited, shall be prima facie evidence of such unlawful 

 taking or killing or possession, jjrovided it shall be lawful at any time of the year to 

 take any wild birds or the eggs of any wild birds mentioned in this act for scientific 

 purposes under the supervision and authority of the State Fish and Game Commis- 

 sioner; and it shall be unlawful to kill, catch or otherwise take or destroy, and leave 

 to waste, or in any manner to cause or suffer to be wasted, any bird, animal or fish 

 in this act mentioned, or any useful part or parts thereof. 



Approved March 23, 1907. 



VERMONT. 

 Laws of 1904, No. 118, p. 160. 



Fish, and g-ame commissioner: Sec 1. There shall be appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, with the advice and consent of the senate, during the present session of the 

 legislature, and biennially thereafter, a state fish and game commissioner, who shall 

 hold office for two years from December 1st of the year of his appointment and until 

 his successor is chosen and qualified. A vacancy occurring in such office shall be 

 filled by the governor. 



Salary; Expenses: Sec. 2. [As amended by Laws of 1906, No. 153. ] The annual 

 salary of the state fish and game commissioner shall be ten hundred dollars and his 

 actual necessary expenses while away from home on official business. He shall also 

 be allowed in the allowance of his accounts his necessary expenses for postage, sta- 

 tionery, blanks, printing, telephone, telegraph, freight and express. Said commis- 



