DISPOSITION OF FINES IN ILLINOIS AND CALIFORNIA. 



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36-37. In Illinois the license fees and part of the fines constitute a fund 

 in the State treasury, designated as the State game protection fund, 

 which is used for payment of expenses of the State game department, 

 and the surplus for the introduction and propagation of quail, prairie 

 chickens, pheasants, and other game. With this balance the State game 

 commissioner has established a game farm of 160 acres in Sangamon 

 County, not far from Springfield, where large numbers of pheasants, 

 quail, and partridges have been propagated. These birds will be dis- 

 tributed throughout the State in suitable sections. The experiment 

 has been a signal success. All fines for violation of the game laws 

 and license fees in California constitute a fund in the State treasury 

 for the purpose of protecting, restoring, and introducing game. In 

 this connection, as well as for other reasons, the following table of 

 arrests and prosecutions for violation of the game laws in California 

 during the two years ending August 31, 1904, is interesting. It will 

 be seen that the game fund from this source alone amounted to 86,71:9. 



Summary of Arrests made by Deputies of the California Fish Commission and Disposition 

 of Cases for two years ending August SI, 1904- h 



Violations charged. 



Fines. 



Impris- 

 onment 



(days). 



a 13 

 10 



17 



3 



15 



71 



15 



4 



1 



3 



2 



1 



36 



33 



a 38 



5 



11 



6 



aS 



12 



2 



1 



5 



5 



3 



1 



ab 



325 



Doves, " bag limit" 



Killing or possession of doves, " closed season " 



Ducks, " bag limit " 



Killing or possession of ducks, " closed season : 



Netted ducks (drowned) 



Quail, " bag limit " 



Killing or possession of quail, " closed season " 



Offering quail for sale 



Trapping quail 



Quail in possession without permit 



Chinese quail in possession 



Deer, -'bag limit" 



Running deer with dogs 



Killing deer, " closed season " 



Possession of deer meat, " closed season " 



Killing female deer or fawn 



Possession of female deer hides 



Removing evidence of sex from deer hides 



Sale of deer hides 



Sale of deer meat 



Night shooting 



Trespass 



Snipe, "bag limit" 



Plover, "closed season" 



Grouse, " closed season " 



Shooting meadow larks 



Possession of pheasants 



Tree squirrel, "closed season " 



Totals 249 



23 



48 



S100 

 320 

 100 

 250 



25 



278 



1.576 



240 



100 



25 

 125 



50 



25 

 710 

 845 

 820 

 100 

 275 

 160 



50 

 150 



25 



25 



100 

 45 

 50 



105 



m 



213 



a Cases pending. 



In addition to license fees and fines, the money arising from the sale 

 of confiscated game is paid into the game protection fund in several 

 States. The income from this source in Wisconsin in 1903 amounted 



«See Am. Field, vol. 66, p. 67, July 28, 1906. 



& Eighteenth Biennial Rept. Board Fish Comm., Calif., p. 11, 1904. 



