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assess the fine at dollars;" and if lor acquittiii, "we, the 



jury, find the dt'feiuUint not guilty." The justice hh;tll pronounce 

 judgment in accordance with the verdict. 



§ 12. Whenever any judgment of conviction shall he rendered 

 against any defendant or defendants as above provided, execution 

 shall issue forthwith on such judgment, and the sheriff or constable 

 to whom the same shall be directed, shall pay one half of all pen- 

 alties collected on such execution in payment of such judgment to 

 •the person or persons who shall have made the complaint, and the 

 remaining one-half to the superintendent of schools of the county 

 wherein such trial shall be had. 



vj 13. Whenever any execution issued as above provided shall be 

 returned "no property found," the justice issuing the same, or, in 

 case of his death or absence, any other justice having pos- session 

 of the docket in which such judgment was entered, shah issue his 

 warrant to the sheriff or any constable of such county, commanding 

 him to take and deliver the defendant or defendants in the execu- 

 tion to the jailor of euch county, who sluill receive such defendant 

 or defendants into his custody and commit him or ihem to the 

 common jail of such county or Avorkhouse of such county whenever 

 one exists, for a period of not less than ten or more than sixty 

 •days as the justice shall decide and direct in his warrant, but such 

 <lefendant or defendants so arrested or committed shall be discharged 

 at any time on payment of such fine and costs. 



vj 14. Any, defendant or defendants against whom such judgment 

 of conviction shall be rendered, and in case of acquittal the party 

 making the complaint, or any person who will give the necessarj' 

 bond, shall have the right of appeal on the same terms as in civil 

 cases before justices, but no proceedings herein provided for shall 

 be stayed until such appeal shall be fully perfected. 



§ 15. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and 

 constables of this State to look after the violations of any of the 

 sections of this act, to make comnlaints where such violations come 

 to their knowledge, and they shall have i^ower to arrest any person 

 or persons they m;ty find in the act of violating any of the provisions 

 of this act witliout a warrant, and keep him or them in custody 

 until complaint can be made and proceedings had against him or 

 them as hereinbefore provided. 



§ 16. That an act entitled "An act to prevent the destruction 

 of fish in the State of Illinois, and to secure the unobstructed pas- 

 sage of fish in all the waters of this State, wherein they were once 

 accustomed to be found." approved March 22, 1872; an act entitled 

 "An act to secure the free passage of fish in all the waters of the 

 State," approved March 25, 1874; an act entitled "An act to en- 

 courage the cultivation of fishes within the State of Illinois," 

 approved and in force May 13, 1879; and an act entitled "An act 

 to protect brook trout," approved May 29, 1879, are hereby repealed, 

 hut such repeal shall not disturb the status of the present board of 

 iish commissioners. 



While the foregoing law is a decided advancement upon any pre- 

 vious one, we think that to any one who has given the matter any 

 thought, or from personal observation has seen its workings, no 



