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GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



Time within which Criminal Prosecutions and Civil Actions for Violation of Game Laws 

 must be commenced — Continued. 



State. 



Criminal prosecution. 



Civil action. 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



Montana 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



New Mexico 



New York 



North Carolina . 

 North Dakota... 



Ohio 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



Pennsylvania... 

 Rhode Island ... 



South Dakota . . . 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Washington 



West Virginia... 

 Wisconsin 



2 years 



lyear 



5 years (felony) 



1 year (misdemeanor) . 

 li years 



1 year (fine not exceeding $100 or im- 

 prisonment 3 months). 



1 year 



6 years 



1 year (fine not exceeding $100 or 

 imprisonment 6 months). 



2 years 



2 years 



2 years 



2 years 



2 years 



3 years 



3 years 



2 years 



1 year 



2 years (fine to the State) 



1 vear (fine or any part to prosecu- 

 tor). 



90 days, for violations, as to birds 



1 vear small game 



3* 



1 



2 



3 



2 



3 



1 



1 



ears, big game. 



ear 



'ears 



•ears 



•ears, before a justice of the peace . 

 •ears 



ear 



year 



1 year 



3 vears 



2 years. 



1 year, action for recovery of penalty 

 imposed upon common carriers 

 illegally transporting game. 



2 years. 



1 year where whole or part of penalty 

 is allowed person prosecuting for 

 2 years, by the State. 



2 years. 



SEPARATE OFFENSES. 



The practice of making a violation of law, as to each individual 

 animal or bird or each unlawful act or omission, a separate offense, 

 and punishable as such, is so general at the present day that scarcely a 

 State fails to include it in some part of its game law. The provision 

 has much to commend it, especially where the policy of the State is to 

 inflict small fines or short terms of imprisonment. Under the laws 

 of North and South Carolina each day that a nonresident hunts with- 

 out a license is declared a separate offense. 



The New York scheme of penalizing the offense and adding a penalty 

 for each bird or quadruped constituting the subject of the violation is 

 the same in effect and so is the scheme adopted hy several States of 

 affixing a stated fine for each bird or animal in respect to which the 

 offense was committed, however the procedure in the three cases may 

 differ as to the number of complaints or indictments. In the first case 

 as many prosecutions may be instituted as there are individual birds or 

 animals involved in the violation, and this has reference rather to pro- 

 cedure, while in the last two cases only one indictment or action lies, 



