112 KK1'(,)UT OF STATE BUAUI) OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



possess the sainr. Tt is also claimed that such a statute, if applied to 

 tish cauglit or l)ought before the close season begins, is unjust and un- 

 reasonable. These questions were all thorovighly considered in Ex Parte 

 Maier, 108 Cal. 476. In that case it was claimed that the fact that 

 the game in question had been purchased in the State of Texas and 

 l>rought into this State made it an article of merchandise, the posses- 

 sion of whieli the Legislature could not forbid. The court, however, 

 lield the contrary, and that case must be taken as decisive of the 

 question. 



\\\^ lind no error in the record; and it is, therefore, ordered that the 

 judgment be affirmed. 



SHAM', J. 

 We concur: 



ANGELLOTTI, J. 



VAN DYKE, J. 



