DISPOSITION OF LICENSE FEES AND FINES. 

 Special Disposition of Hunting License Fees and Fines — Continued. 



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State. 



License fees. 



Fines. 





Coiinty game fund. If no warden in 

 the county, to fine and forfeiture 

 fund. 



Third to informer (half if he be a war- 





den), balance to fine and forfeiture 

 fund.a 

 Half to game warden securing conviction. 







State fish and game fund. 







Half to deputy warden or person filing 





State fish and game fund 



complaint, half to State game fund. 

















General expense fund 



Less expenses to warden prosecuting, or 







half to informer. 

 State game fund. 





do 



Do. 





Local laws; usually to county school 

 fund. 



State 



Less expenses to warden prosecuting; 





otherwise half to informer, half to 

 county school fund. 

 Half to complainant, half to State; if com- 





State game fund 



plainant be a deputy of the commission- 

 ers, whole to the State. 







General revenue fund of the county. 





County forest and game protective 

 fund. 



Countv forest and game protective fund, 





but informant entitled to half. 

 Half of fine for trespass paid to owner of 







land securing conviction. 

 State game fund. 







County school fund, but complaining 

 witness entitled to an equivalent of 

 half from general county treasury. 



School fund. 







New Hampshire . . . 

 New Jersey 







Use of fish and game commissioners . 



Third for use of fish and game commission- 

 ers, third to complainant, third to per- 

 sons furnishing evidence. 



Half to deputy game warden prosecut- 

 ing; half to county school fund. 



For use of forest, fish, and game commis- 

 sioner; person, game society, or corpo- 

 ration or officer furnishing evidence or 

 instituting prosecution entitled to half. 





State : 







North Dakota 



Ohio 



40 per cent to deputy game warden 

 of county, 30 per cent to district 

 game warden, 20 per cent t«o gen- 

 eral State fund, 10 per cent to 

 auditor of the county. 



Use of commissioners of fish and game . 



For use of commissioners of fish and 





game;b prosecuting attorney 20 percent 

 where he conducts prosecution. 



Oregon 



State game fund 



Less expenses, half to informer or person 

 bringing action, except wardens, half 

 to State. 



For use of board of game commissioners- 

 when prosecutor is a protector or dep, 

 uty; half to informer, half to board for 

 violation of license law. 



Half to complainant, half to State. 



Pennsylvania 



Rhode Island 



Half for use of board of game commis- 

 sioners, half to county. 



State 







State game protection fund. 



Small game, half to warden or officer in- 

 stituting prosecution or to informer; 

 half to county game fund; big game, 

 county game fund. 



Half to warden procuring conviction or 

 making arrest, and half to State warden. 



State. 



South Dakota 









Texas 



State game protection fund 



Utah 



do 





Vermont 





tion of law protecting big game and 

 introduced birds entitled to half. 







State. 



Washington 



West Virginia 



Collected by State auditor, to State 

 game fund; collected by county 

 auditor, to county game fund. 



State 



County game fund. 



Deputy warden prosecuting. c 

 Third to county game fund. 

 General school fund. 







Wyoming 



State 



a This scheme of disposition of fines is void, as the constitution requires all fines to be paid into the 

 fine and forfeiture fund. 



b Commissioners may direct that fines collected upon prosecutions by deputy State Wardens be paid 

 to them. 



c Suit is now pending in the supreme court of the State to determine the legality of 

 of the fines. 



disposition 





