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Commissioner and all wardens have jurisdiction throughout State, with powers of 

 sheriff or constable; may seize game taken or held illegally; may arrest, with or 

 without warrant, any person believed to be guilty of violating the law, and with or 

 without warrant may open, enter, and examine any place or package (dwelling house 

 only under warrant) where they have reason to believe game illegally taken or held 

 is to be found, and may seize such game; in case of seizure of game in transit they 

 have authority, upon payment of reasonable compensation, to take possession of and 

 use any animal or vehicle employed for such transportation (except such as are used 

 as public conveyances of passengers or mail) for conveying game or prisoner; they 

 are required to arrest any person hunting without license when one is required, and 

 may demand of anyone they believe to have hunted within the year the produc- 

 tion of and opportunity to copy his license; the commissioner, or any warden if 

 directed by him, may bring against any person unlawfully wounding, killing, or 

 possessing any game animal or bird a civil action in the name of the State for recov- 

 ery of the value of such animal or bird according to schedule of minimum values 

 prescribed in game act. 



(2) Other officers: Sheriffs and constables required to enforce game laws; have 

 same special pow&rs to arrest, search, and seize as are conferred on deputy game 

 wardens; have authority to demand production of hunting license, and to bring civil 

 action for recovery of value of game illegally killed, wounded, or possessed; and are 

 entitled to same fees and perquisites as wardens. District attorneys are required 

 to prosecute violations coming to their know ledge (when requested by commissioner 

 or other officer, such prosecutions to be under supervision of commissioner). United 

 States forest officers are vested by the State with all powers of deputy wardens. 



(3) Game protection fund: All fees for licenses and permits issued by the com- 

 missioner; entire proceeds from sale of confiscated game if seized by commissioner 

 or warden and one-half if by sheriff or constable; one-half fees for resident licenses 

 issued by county clerks; one-third of all fines and of amounts recovered in civil 

 actions for unlawful capture or possession of game; and all moneys coming into the 

 hands of the commissioner not otherwise disposed of to constitute a State game pro- 

 tection fund. This fund to be used in payment of salaries and expenses of enforcing 

 the law; if fund is insufficient the deficit must be paid from the general State fund. 



(4) Administrative provisions: Prosecutions may be commenced by indict- 

 ment, information, or complaint, and district and county courts and justices of the 

 peace have concurrent and original jurisdiction of all offenses against game laws 

 except those relating to buffalo or the use. of dynamite, explosives, or poisonous or 

 stupefying substances in killing fish. Justices of the peace and clerks of courts 

 required to report results of all cases in their courts to commissioner within twenty 

 days after determination thereof. Person instituting prosecution or suit entitled to 

 one-third the fine or recovery. Actions for damages and for possession of game 

 unlawfully wounded, killed, or possessed may be joined; civil action does not bar 

 criminal prosecution or lawful seizure of game. Fines, penalties, and judgments 

 can not be reduced, remitted, or suspended except as expressly provided by law. 

 Warrant of arrest may be served on corporations by reading to president, secretary, 

 or manager in the State or any general or local agent in county where action is pend- 

 ing, and thereafter the corporation is deemed in court and subject to its jurisdiction, 

 and any fine imposed may be collected by execution against its property. Violation 

 as to each animal or bird is a separate offense and two or more offenses may be 

 charged in same complaint, indictment, or information, and violations to any num- 

 ber of same kind may be charged in same count and punished as separate offenses; 

 proof as to part of an animal or bird shall be sufficient to sustain charge as to whole. 



Perquisites. — Commissioner, wardens, and other officers instituting prosecution 

 entitled to one-third of the fines and one-third of any sum recovered in a civil suit 

 instituted by them on account of game illegally wounded, killed, or possessed; when 



