FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



159 



Actions and Recoveries. 



The following statement will show the number of actions brought and the 

 amount of recoveries in fines and penalties, which does not include numerous 

 actions now pending against persons for trespassing on State land and for the 

 recovery of lands where adverse title is claimed, and does not also include several 

 actions now pending in the Supreme Court, the Appellate Division and the Court 

 of Appeals for the taking and possession of game in close season, some of which 

 have obtained no little notoriety: 



SUMMARY OF RECOVERIES. 





Fines and 

 penalties. 



Trespass 

 fines. 



Regular protectors 



$10,971 47 



1,691 75 

 1,335 90 



$4,640 98 



no 50 















$14,049 12 



$4,75i 48 

 14,049 12 



Grand total 



$18,800 60 







As a result of the actions brought three hundred and seventy-seven persons were 

 fined, twenty-seven were acquitted, twenty-two were sent to jail for nine hundred 

 and twenty-one days, one was held for the grand jury, eleven had suspended 

 sentences, six cases are pending, one was a nonsuit, in one the jury disagreed, 

 and in one the suit was withdrawn ; total, four hundred and forty-seven. 



SUMMARY OF ACTIONS. 



Fines and 

 penally aciions. 



Trespass 



actiuns. 



Regular protectors 

 Special protectors 

 Firewardens . 



293 



7i 

 34 



398 



Total fines and penalty actions 

 Grand total . 



4i 



49 

 398 



447 



