]90 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



porations, and no violation of any provisions of this chapter shall be excused for the 

 reason that the prohibited act was done as the agent or employe of another, nor that 

 it was committed by or through an agent or employe of the person charged. The 

 word ' ' possession ' ' shall be deemed to include both actual and constructive posses- 

 sion as well as the control of the article referred to. The term "waters of this 

 state" shall be held to include all the boundary waters of the state, and the provisions 

 of this chapter shall be deemed to extend and be in force and effect over, upon and 

 in all thereof. The terms "any part thereof" or "the parts thereof," whenever used 

 in this chapter shall be deemed to include the hides, horns and hoofs of any animal 

 so referred to, and the plumage and skin and every other part of any bird so referred 

 to. The term "fur bearing animals" shall not be deemed to include deer, moose or 

 caribou. 



Inspection of hotels, etc. : Sec. 11. The game and fish commission and all game 

 wardens shall inspect from time to time, hotels, restaurants, cold storage houses or 

 plants and ice houses commonly used in storing meats, game or iish for private par- 

 ties, including all buildings used for a like purpose, for the purpose of determining 

 whether game or fish are kept therein in violation of the provisions of this chapter. 

 Any person, in possession or control, or in charge of any hotel, restaurant, storage 

 plant or building referred to, or any part thereof, who refuses or fails to permit any 

 member of the game and fish commission or any warden appointed by said commis- 

 sion to enter any such building or any part thereof, or any receptacle therein, for the 

 purpose of making such inspection, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty (50) or over one hundred 

 (100) dollars, including costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail for a 

 term of not less than thirty (30) or over ninety (90) days for the first offense, and upon 

 conviction for a second offense shall be punished b\ imprisonment in the county jail 

 for a period of not less than sixty (60) or over ninety (90) days. 



Contraband game; Seizure; Search: Sec. 12. Any bird, animal, fish or any 

 part thereof, caught, killed, shipped or had in possession or under control contrary 

 to any of the provisions of this chapter, is hereby declared to be contraband. 



The game and fish commission, ail game wardens, sheriffs and their deputies, con- 

 stables and police officers, shall seize and take possession of any and all birds, ani- 

 mals, or fish or any part thereof which have been caught, taken, killed or had in 

 possession or under control or shipped contrary to any of the provisions of this chap- 

 ter. Any court having jurisdiction may upon complaint showing probable cause for 

 believing that any bird, animal, fish or any part thereof caught, taken, killed or had 

 in possession or under control by any person, or shipped or transported contrary to 

 the provisions of this chapter, is concealed or illegally kept in any building, car or 

 receptacle, shall issue a search warrant and cause a search to be made in any such 

 place for any such birds, animals, fish or any part thereof, and may cause any build- 

 ing, inclosure or car to be entered, and any apartment, chest, box, locker, crate, 

 basket, package, or any other receptacle whatever to be broken, opened and the con- 

 tents thereof examined. All such officers taking or seizing any such birds, animals 

 or fish, or any part thereof, shall at once report all the facts attending the same to 

 the commission. 



Contraband devices: Sec 13. All nets, seines, lanterns, snares, devices, contriv- 

 ances and materials, while in use, or had, or maintained, for the purpose of catching, 

 taking or killing, or attracting or deceiving any bird, animal, or fish contrary to any 

 provision of this chapter, within this state, or upon or in the boundary waters thereof, 

 including fish houses, inclosures or other sheltering structures or appliances erected 

 or maintained upon the ice or in any waters, or on the shore of any lake, pond or 

 stream, is hereby declared to be and is a public nuisance. The commission, all game 

 wardens, sheriffs and their deputies, constables and police officers shall without 

 warrant or process, take, seize, abate and destroy any and all of the same while being 



