152 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WAKDENS. 



Chap. 194, p. 798. 



Preserves: [Sec] 3197. The commissioners shall have power to establish state 

 game preserves, and to that end may, in the name and for the use of the state, lease 

 for the term of either twenty-five or fifty years, tracts of woodland in this state suit- 

 able for the propagation and preservation of game and game birds; said tracts shall 

 contain not less than fifty and not more than three hundred acres, and shall during 

 the term of said lease be and remain state game preserves. 



Prima facie evidence : [Sec. ] 3206. [Prohibits destruction of game on state game 

 preserves.] The detection of any person with a' gun, trap, or snare upon any state 

 game preserve, during the open season, shall be presumptive evidence of a violation 

 of this section. One-half of the fine imposed shall be paid to the informer. 



Laws of 1903, chap. 101, p. 69. 



Investigation of violations: The commissioners of fisheries and game may, in 

 their discretion, authorize the fish and game warden of any county to investigate the 

 violation of any fish and game law which has been committed or alleged to have 

 been committed within his county, and the expenses incurred by the warden in such 

 investigation shall be paid from the state treasury on an order from the commissioners 

 of fisheries and game duly audited by the comptroller; provided, that the expenses so 

 incurred shall not in any case exceed the sum of fifteen dollars. 



Approved May 15, 1903. 



Laws of 1907, chap. 153. 



An Act concerning the Licensing of Hunters. 



Fees: Sec. 3. [Resident, $1; nonresident, $10; alien, $15.] 



Disposition of fees : Sec. 4. Every town, city, and borough clerk shall keep a 

 record of all such licenses issued by him, which record shall be open to inspection 

 by all officers authorized to make arrests, and by the state treasurer or his agents, 

 and the commissioners of fisheries and game; and such clerk shall, on the first Monday 

 in every month, pay to the state treasurer all moneys, except recording fees, received 

 by him for such licenses issued during the month preceding. All moneys so received 

 by the state treasurer shall be set apart as a fund to be used for the protection and 

 propagation of game, and shall be paid, from time to time, to the commissioners of 

 fisheries and game in the manner provided by section 3098 of the general statutes. 

 Said commissioners shall use all moneys so received for the protection, preservation, 

 and propagation of game in this state, and said commissioners are hereby authorized 

 to receive and use said moneys in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore pro- 

 vided; provided, however, that in case of a failure to convict in any prosecution for 

 violation of the laws relating to birds and quadrupeds, or of this act, the costs of said 

 prosecution shall be paid out of the fund created by this act. 



Approved June 27. 1907. 



DELAWARE. 

 Laws of 1879, vol. 16, chap. Ill, p. 163. 



An Act to incorporate the Delaware Game Protective Association. 



Delaware Game Protective Association: Sec. 1. That I. N. Mills, * * * 

 and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the 

 Delaware Game Protective Association, and to continue for the space of twenty years 

 next ensuing. 



Constitution, etc: Sec 2. That the said corporation shall have the power to 

 make and adopt a constitution and by-laws and regulations for the admission of its 



