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or any part thereof, the tag and seal of the state game and fish commission, provided 

 for by this chapter to disprove which it shall be necessary for the party in possession 

 thereof to show that at the time it was caught, taken or killed, it was lawfully caught, 

 taken or killed outside, or within this state, or that it was lawfully caught, taken or 

 killed within the state and that he was lawfully in possession thereof. 



Disposition of license fees: Sec. 34. [As amended by Laws of 1907, chap. 469. 

 Provides for resident license.] Ten cents of the amount received for the issuance of 

 said license shall be retained by the county auditor as his fee, and the balance 

 remitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the game and fish 

 commission fund, to be used for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this 

 chapter. * * * 



Forfeiture of license: Sec. 36. Any person who shall violate any of the pro- 

 visions of this chapter and who is at the time of such violation in the possession of a 

 license duly issued to him, shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit such license to the 

 State of Minnesota, and such person shall deliver to the court before whom he was 

 tried any such license, and the court shall forward the same to the commission. 



Contraband game: Sec. 37. * * * The having in possession of any game bird 

 or animal or any part thereof which is not so tagged and sealed, or for which a reten- 

 tion permit has not been received, except during the open season and five (5) days 

 thereafter, is hereby made unlawful. Any such game bird or game animal, or any 

 part thereof, had or held in possession by any person during the season when it is 

 unlawful to have the same in possession, is hereby declared contraband and the right 

 of any such person to retain or use the same shall cease. * * * 



Sale of game by commission: Sec 54. The game and fish commission is he 

 hereby authorized to sell to residents of this state at the highest market price obtain- 

 able therefor, all furs, fish, game, game animals or game birds now or which may 

 hereafter come into its possession. The proceeds thereof shall be turned into the 

 state treasury and credited to the game and fish commission funds. A record of such 

 sales, including the name of the purchaser and the price paid, shall be kept by the 

 commission. Said commission shall, before selling, tag the same in a manner to be 

 determined by it. 



Appropriation: Sec. 57. The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000), or so 

 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated annually, commencing 

 August 1, 1905, for the purpose of carrying on and enforcing the provisions of this 

 chapter, to be paid for such purpose out of any moneys in the state treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated. 



Resisting- commissioner or warden: Sec. 61. Whoever shall resist or obstruct 

 the executive agent of said commission, or any member thereof, or any warden or 

 other officers of this state, in the discharge of his duties under this chapter, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not 

 less than fifty (50) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and costs of prosecution, 

 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than sixty (60) nor more than 

 ninety (90) days for each and every offense. 



Attempts: Sec. 64. Any attempt to violate any of the provisions of any section of 

 this chapter shall be deemed a violation of such provision, and any person attempt- 

 ing to violate any of the provisions of any section of this chapter shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof punished by a fine of not less than ten 

 (10) nor more than fifty (50) dollars, and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment 

 in the county jail for not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days for each 

 and every offense. 



General penalty: Sec 67. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter 

 for which a penalty has not been heretofore specifically provided, shall be guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) nor more than 



