114 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



contrary to law, is ground for issuance of warrant to search any place, and to cause 

 any building, enclosure, or car to be entered, and any apartment, chest, box, locker, 

 crate, basket, or package to be broken open and contents examined by warden ; all 

 persons violating law whether as principal, agent, servant, or employe equally liable 

 with principal; any person liable for violation by his agent, servant, or employe* 

 done under his direction or with his knowledge; game, birds, and apparatus seized 

 disposed of as court before whom the offense is tried, or any court of competent jur- 

 isdiction may direct; violation as to each bird or animal a separate offense. Dogs 

 pursuing or following upon track of deer declared a public nuisance, and may be 

 killed by any person. Proof of possession of dead body, or part thereof of any game 

 or birds in close season prima facie evidence of illegal killing, also that it was taken 

 or killed in Michigan, to disprove which defendant must show by testimony of 

 party who actually killed or caught it that it was taken in another State, and when- 

 ever it is shown that such game was so killed or caught, it is prima facie evidence 

 that it was killed or caught in violation of the laws of that State; interfering with 

 wardens in their search for evidence of violations prima facie evidence that the per- 

 son so doing has violated the law; possession of deer in red or spotted coat prima 

 facie evidence of violation of law; wearing or possessing an artificial light in the 

 woods prima facie evidence of violation of law; any person shown to have had pos- 

 session of game or birds in close season must establish lawful possession thereof, and 

 State is not required to aver or prove that it was not for purposes authorized by law. 

 Prosecution must be begun within one year for violations of sections 5804-5809 of 

 Compiled Laws of 1897 [relating to export of game and its possession when taken 

 unlawfully in another State], otherwise within six years. 



MINNESOTA. 



(1) Officers: Board of game and fish commissioners; established in April, 1891; 

 composed of five members; term four years; members serve without compensation, 

 but are allowed their necessary expenses. 



Duties and powers. — Required to enforce game and fish laws; propagate useful game; 

 collect and disseminate statistics and information germane to purposes of game laws; 

 seize and dispose of all game and fish taken, killed, transported or possessed con- 

 trary to law, and all implements unlawfully used; issue nonresident licenses; report 

 to the governor biennially. They may employ such assistants and game wardens as 

 may be necessary to carry out the law, and may fix their term of service and com- 

 pensation; may secure specimens of game for exchange with commissioners of other 

 States; may offer and pay rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction 

 of offenders for violation of game laws, as follows — §50 for moose and caribou; $25 

 for deer, and §10 for game birds. 



Executive agent. — Appointed by commission from its members; must devote his 

 entire time to duties of the office and exercise all rights and powers of commission 

 when it is not in session; bond, $5,000; salary not to exceed $2,500. 



Wardens. — Such number and at such compensation as commission may deter- 

 mine; bond, $500. 



Attorney. — Commissioners may employ an attorney or attorneys to appear for them 

 in all civil actions in which they or their wardens may be officially interested; to 

 perform such services as they may require; to asssist county attorneys in criminal 

 prosecutions and when they do not prosecute, to conduct such prosecution in name 

 of the State, with all the authority of such county attorney; compensation fixed by 

 the board and paid from its funds. 



Commissioners, executive agent, and w T ardens have full power and authority to 

 serve and execute all warrants and processes of law issued by any court in enforcing 

 the game laws in same manner as sheriffs and constables; to arrest without warrant 

 persons found in act of violating the law; may call to their aid any sheriff, constable, 



