17 



cause for believing in the concealment of any bird, animal or fish, 

 caught, taken, killed, had in possession, under control or shipped, or 

 about to be shipped, contrary to law, shall issue a search warrant and 

 cause a search to be made in any place, and to that end may, after 

 demand and refusal, cause any building, enclosure or car to be en- 

 tered, and any apartment, chest, box, locker, crate, basket or pack- 

 age, to be broken open and the contents thereof examined by said 

 constable. All birds, animals or fish, or nets, or fishing appliance, 

 or apparatus, seized by any constable or warden, shall be disposed of 

 in such manner as may be directed by the court before whom the 

 olfense is tried, and such constable or warden shall not be liable 

 for damages on account of any such search, examination or seizure, 

 or the destruction of any nets or fishing apparatus of any kind in ac- 

 cordance with the provision of this act. 



Section 4. Any constable or warden, upon the arrest and prosecu- 

 tion of any offender to conviction under the provisions of this act, 

 shall, in addition to the fees to which he may be entitled under ex- 

 isting laws, be paid for his services the sum of ten dollars on a war- 

 rant drawn by the county commissioners on the county treasurer, 

 one-half of which shall be paid out of the treasury of the respective 

 county, and the remaining half of said reward shall be paid by the 

 State Treasurer into the treasury of said county, out of moneys not 

 otherwise appropriated, upon warrant from the Auditor General, 

 but no such warrant shall be drawn until the respective county com- 

 missioners shall have first furnished, under oath, to the Auditor 

 General, a written itemized statement of such expense, and until 

 the same is approved by the Auditor General: Provided, That no 

 county shall be liable to pay for this purpose- in any one year an 

 amount exceeding five hundred dollars. 



Section 5. Each of said constables or wardens shall, for the pur- 

 pose of this act, have concurrent jurisdiction throughout his own 

 proper county; and they shall in the first week in each term of the 

 court of quarter sessions of their respective counties make special re- 

 turns to said court, under oath, of all violations occurring in their 

 respective townships, or which may come or be brought to their 

 notice, of any of the provisions of any law now in force, or that may 

 hereafter be enacted, for the protection of forests and timber lands, 

 game and fish; and it shall be the duty of the judge of said court to 

 see that such returns are faithfully made, and any constable or war- 

 den wilfully neglecting or refusing to make such returns, or to pro- 

 secute any offense under said laws of which he shall have personal 

 knowledge, or of which he shall have notice in writing by any citi- 

 zen, giving the name of the offender together with the names of the 

 witnesses, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 



