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as hereby amended shall be liable for each offence to a fine not 
exceeding twenty-five dollars nor less than five dollars, to- 
gether with the costs of prosecution, and in default of immedi- 
ate payment of such fine and costs shall be imprisoned in the 
common gaol of the county where such conviction shall take © 
place, for a period not exceeding three months. 48 Vic. c. 9,s. 28. 
. (2) The Justice or Justices shall, in any such conviction, 
adjudge that the defendant be imprisoned, unless the penalty 
and also the costs and charges of prosecution and commitment 
and of conveying the defendant to prison are sooner paid. 
(3) The amount of the costs and charges of the commitment 
and conveying of the defendant to prison are to be ascertained 
and stated in the warrant of commitment. 
Warden may 14. Any of the wardens appointed under the provisions of 
convict offen- this Act, or any magistrate may, upon his own view, convict 
deron view. for any offence against the provisions of the said Act or this ” 
Act. 7 
Application of . 15. One half of every fine collected under the provi- 
fines. sions of the said Act as hereby amended shall be paid to the 
prosecutor or person on whose evidence a conviction is made, 
and the other half shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Pro- 
vince; but the wardens appointed under this Act shall not be 
entitled to any portion of fines in cases where they may act as 
prosecutors. 
cant ot 16---(1) Any officer specially authorized under the pro- 
offenders visions of this Act to enforce the fish and game laws may 
ey out Pro” without process arrest any violator of said laws for an 
oftence committed in his presence ; and he shall with reason- 
able diligence cause him to be taken before any justice 
of the peace for a warrant and trial either in the county 
where the offence was committed or in the county in which the 
violator was arrested, and jurisdiction in all cases under the 
said Act is hereby granted to all justices of the peace, magis- 
trates, stipendiary magistrates, and all other courts, to be ex- 
ercised in the same way and manner as if the offence had been 
committed in their respective counties. Any officer who shall 
maliciously or without probable cause abuse his power in such 
proceedings shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. 
Ponaltios on (2) Sheriffs, deputy-sheriffs, provincial police or constables, 
officers abus- county constables, police officers, wood-rangers, crown-lands 
salsa agents, timber agents, fire wardens and fishery inspectors or 
overseers, are vested with the powers of deputy-wardens and 
authorized to enforce any of the provisions of this Act, and 
shall receive for their services the same fees. 
Officers (3) Officers authorized to enforce the game laws, and all 
ceo ag pale other persons, may recover the penalties for the violation 
thereof in an action on the case in their own name or by com- 
