IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



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Section 1 1 : In all prosecu- 

 tions under this act the court be- 

 fore whom the same is brought 

 shall appoint some attorney-at- 

 law for the purpose of manage- 

 ing the prosecution of the cause 

 and such attorney shall be enti- 

 tled to a fee of ten dollars in 

 each and every case in which he 

 is so appointed, and the person 

 tiling an information under this 

 act, shall in case of conviction, 

 be entitled to a fee equal to one 

 half the amount of the fine im- 

 posed on each conviction, and 

 both the fee of such attorney and 

 the informant shall be taxed as 

 costs in the case against the per- 

 son convicted. Provided, that 

 the county shall in no case be 

 held liable for such attorney's fee 

 or penalty. 



It seems to me that the pros- 

 ecution under this act should be 

 conducted by the county, or bet- 

 ter yet, the state attorney or as- 

 sistant, and all such fines, etc., 

 go to defra3nng- the expenses of 

 the game-warden. It stands to 

 reason that an attorney of abil- 

 ity will hardly feel like devoting 

 much thought or trouble to a 

 case in which, no matter how 

 long drawn out or how compli- 

 cated, his fee is to be only $io. 

 In other breaches of the law the 

 state's attorney is called upon to 



prosecute, if it be a state law 

 that is broken, and why should 

 he not conduct the prosecution of 

 our game laws.-* 



The twenty-fifth General As- 

 sembly passed laws restraining 

 hunters from trespassing upon 

 enclosed lands without permis- 

 sion. 



Chapter 64, section i: "No 

 person shall hunt with do'g or 

 gun upon the cultivated or en- 

 closed lands of another, without 

 first obtaining permission from 

 the owner, occupant or agent 

 thereof. " 



Section 2: "x\ny person vio- 

 lating the provisions of this act 

 shall be punished by a fine of not 

 more than ten dollars and costs 

 of prosecution and shall stand com- 

 mitted until said fine and costs 

 are paid, for each and every of- 

 fense, but no prosecution shall be 

 commenced under this act except 

 upon information of the owner, 

 occupant or agent of such cul- 

 tivated or enclosed lands. 



These two sections caused con- 

 siderable feeling among the 

 sportsmen in the state when 

 first enacted, but they are a need- 

 ed protection to the farmer against 

 those careless, reckless hunters 

 who shoot without regard to di- 

 rection or nearness of cattle or 

 stock of any kind, and it has 



