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fifty (50) dollars .and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for 

 not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days. 

 Approved April 19, 1905. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



Code, 1906, chap. 57, p. 706. 



Board of supervisors; Wardens: [Sec] 2305. The boards of supervisors are 

 given full jurisdiction and authority for the protection and preservation of game and 

 fish in their respective counties, and to conserve the same for the use and consump- 

 tion of the inhabitants, and for that purpose may appoint a game warden who shall 

 discharge such duties as may be prescribed by them. The game warden shall have 

 authority to appoint as many deputies as he may see proper to aid him in the dis- 

 charge of his duties, and his deputies shall have the same powers in all respects as 

 are conferred upon him. 



Forfeiture of guns, etc. : [Sec] 2310. All game and fish taken contrary to the 

 law or the regulation of the board of supervisors, as well as the guns, dogs, traps, 

 and appliances for taking game, and the seines, nets, rods and the like for catching 

 fish, which may be used in taking game or catching fish unlawfully, shall be for- 

 feited; and the court adjudging the forfeiture in a civil or criminal proceeding shall 

 allow reasonable compensation out of the proceeds to the prosecutor for his trouble. 



Disposition of guns, etc.: [Sec] 2311. It shall be competent for the board of 

 supervisors, in cases of forfeiture of the articles seized, to determine the disposition 

 to be made of them; and if there be any delay given to the party arrested for the 

 hearing of the case, the magistrate may cause the game or fish seized to be disposed 

 of before the hearing and the proceeds to be held to abide the result. 



Administration: [Sec] 2314. The judicial administration of the game laws and 

 regulations of the boards of supervisors pertains, as a matter of police, to any justice 

 of the peace, mayor, or police justice, of any city, town, or village in the county as 

 to all violations of such gaming laws and regulations committed within their respective 

 districts; and the breach of any regulation, order or resolution of the board of super- 

 visors shall be a misdemeanor and a violation of police ofder, and shall subject to 

 forfeiture the game and fish taken, and the appliances used in the taking thereof, in 

 violation of such police regulation, and to such fine and imprisonment as may be 

 prescribed by the regulations, or to one or more or these penalties. Such matters 

 shall be summarily heard and disposed of as other matters affecting the public police 

 and order. 



Arrest: [Sec] 2315. It shall be the duty of the game warden, sheriff, constable, 

 and city, town, and village marshals within the county, to arrest, with or without 

 process, any person whom they may know, or have good reason to believe, to be 

 violating any such police regulations, and to seize all game, fish, and appliances 

 found in the possession of such persons in violation of police regulations, and shall 

 forthwith convey the person from whose custody the game, fish, and appliances 

 shall have been taken before the proper justice of the peace, mayor, or police justice, 

 to be dealt with according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the board for 

 such offense. 



Licensee must exhibit license; Arrest: [Sec] 2329. It shall be unlawful for 

 any non-resident to hunt within the state unless he has in his possession, ready to 

 exhibit to the game warden or any officer or person, upon request, a license issued 

 to him by the sheriff of the county in which he may be hunting, such license to be 

 issued to non-residents of the state upon payment of a fee of ten dollars to the couuty 

 and ten dollars to the state. * * * Every non-resident found hunting without 

 said license shall be arrested on sight by any game warden or officer of the law, and 



