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Search Warrant ; When Issued. 



§ 247. Any justice of the peace, police justice, county judge, judge of any city court, or 

 magistrate having criminal jurisdiction, upon receiving proof of probable cause for believing 

 in the concealment of any game or fish taken or possessed contrary to the provisions of this act, 

 shall issue his search warrant and cause a search to be made in any place, and to that end may 

 cause any building or inclosure to be entered and may cause any apartment chest, box, locker, 

 crate, basket or package to be broken open and the contents examined. 



Witnesses. 



§ 248. No person shall be excused from giving evidence in any civil or criminal action, 

 prosecution, or proceeding, under or authorized by this act on the ground that the evidence 

 might tend to convict such witness of a crime, or misdemeanor, or to establish the liability of 

 such witness under any of the provisions thereof ; but such evidence shall not be received 

 against such witness in any civil or criminal action, protection or proceeding. 



§ 249. No person or persons shall be deemed to have violated any law or ordinance by 

 reason of his or their selling, exposing for sale, transporting or possessing, or attempting so to 

 do, the body or a part of the body of any wild animal or bird in the close season for such 

 animal or bird, provided it be proved by him or them by production of proper invoices and 

 freight or express receipts, that such wild animal or bird was shipped from a point at least 

 three hundred miles distant from the state of New York. For the purpose of the proper 

 enforcement of the section the package containing this wild animal or bird shall be marked 

 plainly " game," and the place of shipment and destination shall also be plainly marked. 

 All transportation companies which shall transport the same shall keep books plainly showing 

 the receipt and delivery of such packages of game, and dealers in the same shall keep books of 

 account showing the number of birds or animals received, sold or delivered by them, and shall, 

 at all times, permit any authorized agent of the commissioners of fisheries, game and forest to 

 examine their books of record for purpose of establishing the right of such possession or trans- 

 portation in close season. 



§ 9. Article eleven of chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-two is hereby amended to read as follows : 



ARTICLE XI. 



FlSHWAYS. 



Section 260. Commissioners to be notified of construction of dam. 



261. Authority of commissioners to direct fishways. 



262. Owners to comply with direction of commissioners. 



263. Commissioners to recover for construction and penalty. 



