262 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



wardens to enforce all statutes of this State, and of the United States now in force, or 

 hereafter to be enacted for the protection and propagation of wild water fowl, game 

 birds, and game animals or song or insectivorous birds. The said wardens shall have 

 power, and it shall be their duty, to arrest any person detected by them in the act of 

 violating any of the aforesaid laws, or any person against whom a warrant shall have 

 been duly issued, upon the information of any other person for such violation, and 

 forthwith to carry such person before a justice or court having jurisdiction over the 

 offense, who shall proceed, without unreasonable delay, to hear, try, and determine 

 the charge against such person. No game warden shall have any right, under this 

 act, to go upon the land of another person without the consent of such other person, 

 until and unless such game warden shall have procured a search warrant in con- 

 formity with the provisions of subsection five of this section, or shall have a warrant 

 for the arrest of some person thereon: provided, however, that such game warden 

 may, without a warrant, arrest any person who violates any of the provisions of this 

 chapter in the presence of such game warden, and should any person violate any of 

 the provisions of this chapter in the presence of such game warden, such game 

 warden may lawfully follow such person anywhere in the effort to arrest. 



Oyster police; Reports; Fees: (4) The several commanders of the oyster police 

 boats of this Commonwealth are hereby constituted game wardens of this State, whose 

 jurisdiction as such wardens shall extend over the lands and waters of this Common- 

 wealth within their several jurisdictions as commanders. They shall enforce the 

 statutes of this State, and of the United States, for the protection of game or other 

 animals or birds protected by law, and render report to the board of fisheries of all 

 prosecutions, and the said board of fisheries shall publish the same in their annual 

 report as information. The commanders of the said oyster police boats shall receive 

 no additional compensation for the performance of these duties, except that in cases 

 of conviction they may receive the fee provided for in subsection eight of this section. 

 Search: (5) Any court, judge, or justice having jurisdiction over the offense, if 

 satisfied upon affidavit that there is reasonable cause to believe that any wild water 

 fowl, game birds, game animals, or song or insectivorous birds, or parts thereof, 

 caught, taken, killed, shipped, or about to be shipped, or in transit, contrary to the 

 laws of this State, or of the United States, are being concealed or stored in any place, 

 shall issue a search warrant and cause search therefor to be made in any such place, 

 and to that end may, after demand and refusal, cause any building, enclosure, or car 

 to be entered, and any apartment in which it is believed that game is concealed, 

 to be examined by any of said wardens or other officers executing the warrant: 

 provided, that the issuance and execution of such search warrants shall be in accord- 

 ance with the issuance and execution of search warrants in other cases, as provided 



by law. 



Seizure; Disposition of hunting appliances: (6) All game animals, wild water 

 fowl, and birds protected by law, or parts thereof, found under such warrant, shall be 

 seized by the warden or other officer making the search, and shall be disposed of as 

 the court, judge, or justice having jurisdiction may direct. All guns, gunning, or 

 hunting appliances found in such search shall be seized by said warden or other 

 officer, and held subject to the payment of the fine prescribed by law for the offense 

 charged, and the cost of prosecution. If any of the articles so found be such as are 

 not authorized by law, they shall, upon the order of the court, judge, or justice hav- 

 ing jurisdiction, be destroyed, and all other of such articles shall be sold at public 

 auction, after the lapse of twenty days from the time of seizure, and after such notice 

 as the court, judge, or justice having jurisdiction may prescribe, unless the reputed 

 owner appears and acquits himself of the charge or pay the fine that may be imposed 

 by the court, judge, or justice. 



Resisting officers: (7) Any person or persons interfering with any of said game 

 wardens in the discharge of their duty, or resisting lawful arrest, shall be deemed 



