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police officer, or any other person when necessary to enforce the law; required to 

 inspect hotels, restaurants, or any place commonly used for storage of meats, game, 

 and fish; to seize game illegally taken, killed, shipped, or possessed; to seize, abate, 

 and destroy, without warrant, all illegal contrivances for taking or killing game. 



(2) Other officers: Sheriffs, constables, and other peace officers are required to 

 enforce game laws and have the powers and are charged with same duties as wardens, 

 except in the inspection of hotels, restaurants, and storage rooms. County attorneys 

 also required to enforce the laws. 



(3) Game protection fund: Appropriation, $35,000 per annum; license fees and 

 all moneys collected by commission from whatever source, except fines (which are 

 paid to the county ) , paid into State treasury and credited to game and fish fund, to 

 be used in enforcement of the game and fish laws. 



(4) Administrative provisions: Agent or employe of another, or one acting 

 through or by an agent or employe, not exempt from punishment; common carrier 

 or its agent aiding or abetting in illegal shipment of game guilty of misdemeanor; 

 attempt to violate law a misdemeanor; "possession" includes actual or constructive 

 possession. Evidence: Participant in violation may testify against any other person 

 without incriminating himself and his testimony shall not be used against him; not 

 necessary for prosecution to allege or prove that game was not domesticated or taken 

 for scientific purposes; possession of game in close season prima facie evidence that 

 it was property of State when taken or killed, that it was taken in State, and that it 

 w r as taken in close season, unless tag of commission is attached. Complaint showing 

 probable cause for belief that game illegally caught, killed, transported, or possessed 

 is concealed or kept in any place, ground for issue of warrant to search such place 

 and to break open any receptacle and examine .contents. Confiscated game may be 

 sold by commission ; obstructing commissioners or any warden in discharge of his 

 duties a misdemeanor; dogs used in violation of law public nuisance, and when so 

 used may be killed by any person; licensee required to exhibit license to any person 

 upon request, and any licensee violating any provision of law shall upon conviction 

 forfeit license and deliver same to court before which tried. . 



Prosecution must be begun within two years. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



(1) Officers: County game wardens; appointed by county boards of supervisors, 

 one in each county, on recommendation of ten or more citizens; term four years. 



Duties and powers. — Kequired to report violations of game law; authorized to arrest 

 all violators, to search, under warrant, any building not a private residence, any car, 

 vehicle, vessel, or package; to confiscate all game found in possession in violation of 

 law; exempt from liability for seizure of property unlawfully held in possession. 



Deputy game ivardens. — As many as deemed necessary; appointed by the game 

 warden for each supervisor's district; term two years; same powers as warden. 



(2) Other officers: Sheriffs, constables, and city, town, and village marshals 

 required to arrest, with or without process, anyone they know or have reason to 

 believe is violating police regulations; to seize game, fish, and appliances found in 

 possession of such offenders and convey such offenders before the proper justice of 

 the peace, mayor, or police justice. 



(3) Forest and game protective fund: All license fees and 50 per cent of fines 

 (other 50 per cent paid to informer) collected under game laws constitute a county 

 'forest and game protective fund,' to be used by boards of supervisors in paying 

 wardens and deputies. 



(4) Administrative provisions: Game taken contrary to law or regulations of 

 boards of supervisors, and guns, dogs, traps, and appliances used in taking game 

 unlawfully to be forfeited; court adjudging such forfeiture to allow prosecutor 

 reasonable compensation from proceeds; disposition of forfeited hunting parapher- 



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