164 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



Commissioner shall make an annual report to the Governor, which shall include the 

 reports of the game wardens and deputy wardens, showing the number and kind of 

 game, deer, wild fowl and birds seized, and what disposition was made of them, and 

 the amount of proceeds of sale. Said reports shall also contain a statement of all 

 moneys received from all sources and a statement of all disbursements of every kind. 



Nonliability: [Sec] 24. The] State Game Commissioner, game wardens and 

 deputy game wardens shall not be liable for any damage or costs sustained- by any 

 person or corporations by reason of the wrongful seizure of game, deer, wild fowl 

 or birds under this act. 



License fees; Action: [Sec] 25. [As amended by Laws of 1907. Establishes 

 resident and nonresident licenses, limits bag, and number of birds that may be 

 exported under nonresident license.] The license fees above provided for shall be 

 paid by the said clerk to the State Treasurer at the end of each month, and shall 

 be placed to the credit of a fund to be known as the ''State Game Protection Fund," 

 and shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer on vouchers certified to by the State 

 Game Commissioner and approved by the Governor, and filed with the Auditor of 

 Public Accounts, who shall draw his warrant therefor on the State Treasurer. * * * 

 And no person to whom a license has been issued shall be entitled to hunt, pursue or 

 kill game or rabbits in this State without at the time of such hunting, pursuing and 

 killing of game, he or she shall have such license in his or her name and upon his or 

 her person, ready to exhibit the same for inspection, and such license shall be void 

 after the first day of June next succeeding its issuance. * * * Any person found 

 guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than 

 twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense, and shall 

 stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, but such impris- 

 onment shall not exeeed thirty days for each offense; or such person may be pro- 

 ceeded against in an action of debt in the name of the people of the State of Illinois, 

 for the recovery of the penalty herein prescribed. 



Forgery: [Sec] 26. Any person who shall at any time alter or change in any 

 material manner or loan or transfer to another, any license issued as aforesaid, shall 

 be deemed guilty of forgery, and, on conviction thereof shall be subject to the pen- 

 alties provided for the commission of forgery. 



Prosecutions; State's attorneys; Peace officers; Fines: [Sec] 27. All prose- 

 cutions for the violation of the provisions of the act relating to license shall be 

 brought by any person, in the name of the people of the State of Illinois against any 

 person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act, so far as it relates to 

 licenses, before any court of competent jurisdiction; and it is hereby made the duty 

 of all State's attorneys to see that the provisions of this act are enforced in their 

 respective counties, and shall prosecute all offenders on receiving information of the 

 violation of any of the provisions of this act; and it is made the duty of all sheriffs, 

 deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers to inform against and prosecute all per- 

 sons whom there is a reasonable cause to believe are guilty of violating any of the 

 provisions of this act; one-half of the amount recovered in any penal action under 

 this act, in so far as it relates to license, shall be paid to the person filing the com- 

 plaint in such action, and the remaining one-half to the game protection fund; the 

 moneys for such fund shall be by the magistrate or court before whom the case is 

 tried, at once transmitted to the State Treasurer, and by him placed to the credit of 

 said fund. 



Hunting on another's lands: [Sec.] 29. Any person or persons violating section 

 28 of this act [prohibiting hunting on land of another without permission] shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be prosecuted in the name of the People of 

 the State of Illinois, before any justice of the peace, or by indictment, or information 

 in any court in the county where such misdemeanor was committed: Provided, That 



