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every penalty prescribed for such violation may be enforced and recovered before 

 any justice of the peace, district court or police magistrate, either in the county 

 where the offense is committed or where the offender is first apprehended or where 

 he may reside; and nothing contained in any law heretofore passed shall be con- 

 strued to prohibit justices of the peace residing within the limits of any city where a 

 district court is or may be established from exercising jurisdiction under this act. 



Arrest; Trial; Commitment: [Sec] 3. Such justice of the peace, district court 

 or police magistrate, upon receiving complaint in writing, duly verified, of the viola- 

 tion of any law specified in the first section of this act, or of any of the provisions 

 thereof, is hereby authorized and required to issue a warrant, directed to any con- 

 stable, police officer, fish and game warden, fish and game protector, or deputy fish 

 and game warden of this state commanding him to cause the person or persons so 

 complained of to be arrested and brought before such justice, district court or police 

 magistrate, and shall thereupon, in a summary way, hear and determine the guilt or 

 innocence of such person or persons, and, upon conviction, shall impose upon the 

 person or persons so convicted the penalty or penalties prescribed, together with the 

 cost of prosecution, for such offense, and if any person or persons shall fail to pay 

 the penalty or penalties so imposed together with the costs of prosecution, the said- 

 justice, district court or police magistrate shall commit him or them to the common 

 jail of the county where such conviction is had, for a period not exceeding ninety- 

 days, or until said penalty and costs are paid. 



Corporations: [Sec] 4. Such justice of the peace, district court or police magis- 

 trate, upon receiving complaint in writing, duly verified, of the violation of any law 

 specified in the first section of this act, or of any of the provisions thereof, by any 

 corporation or corporations, is hereby authorized and required to issue a summons 

 directed to any constable, police officer, fish and game warden, fish and game pro- 

 tector, or deputy fish and game warden of this state requiring such corporation or cor- 

 porations to be and appear before such justice of the peace, district court or police 

 magistrate on a day therein named, to answer the said complaint, which said sum- 

 mons shall be served on the president, vice-president, secretary, superintendent or 

 manager of such corporation at least five days before the time of appearance men- 

 tioned therein, and thereafter all proceedings shall be the same as in cases against 

 individuals, except where a different procedure is provided by this act. 



Arrest; Complaint; Trial: [Sec] 5. For the violation of any law specified in the 

 first section of this act, or of any of the provisions thereof, done within the view of any 

 constable, police officer, fish and game warden, fish and game protector, deputy fish 

 and game warden, or an officer or member of any incorporated game protective society, 

 such officer is hereby authorized, without warrant, to arrest the offender or offenders 

 and to carry him or them before a justice of the peace, district court or police 

 magistrate of the county where such arrest is made, and the justice, district court or 

 police magistrate before whom such offender or offenders shall be taken is hereby 

 authorized and required to hear and determine in a summary way the guilt or inno- 

 cence of such person or persons, after receiving from the said officer a complaint in 

 writing, duly verified, setting forth the nature of the offense for which the said per- 

 son or persons was or were arrested. 



Fees; costs: [Sec] 6. In any action commenced under the provisions of this act 

 the prevailing party shall recover costs against the other; and the same fees and 

 costs shall be allowed therein as in trials before justices of the peace holding court 

 for the trial of small causes. 



Adjournment: [Sec] 7. Any hearing to be held pursuant to this act may, for good 

 cause shown, be adjourned for a period not exceeding thirty days from the return of 

 any warrant of the time of appearance mentioned in any summons, or from the date 

 of any arrest without warrant, as the case may be, but in such case it shall be the 



