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any such search, examination or seizure, or the destruction of any nets or fishing 

 apparatus of any kind in accordance with the provisions of this act. 



Fees for conviction: Sec. 4. Any constable or warden, upon the arrest and pros- 

 ecution of any offender to conviction under the provisions of this act, shall, in addi- 

 tion to the fees to which he may be entitled under existing laws, be paid for his 

 services the sum of ten dollars on a warrant drawn by the county commissioners on 

 the county treasurer, one-half of which shall be paid out of the treasury of the 

 respective county, and the remaining half of said reward shall be paid by the State 

 Treasurer into the treasury of said county, out of moneys not otherwise appropriated, 

 upon warrant from the Auditor General, but no such warrant shall be drawn until 

 the respective county commissioners shall have first furnished, under oath, to the 

 Auditor General, a written itemized statement of such expense, and until the same 

 is approved by the Auditor General: Provided, That no county shall be liable to pay 

 for this purpose in any one year an amount exceeding five hundred dollars. 



Jurisdiction; Special returns: Sec. 5. Each of said constables or wardens 

 shall, for the purpose of this act, have concurrent jurisdiction throughout his own 

 proper county ; and they shall in the first week in each term of the court of quarter 

 sessions of their respective counties make special returns to said court, under oath, 

 of all violations occurring in their respective townships, or which may come or be 

 brought to their notice, of any of the provisions of any law now in force, or that 

 may hereafter be enacted, for the protection of forests and timber lands, game and 

 fish; and it shall be the duty of the judge of said court to see that such returns are 

 faithfully made, and any constable or warden wilfully neglecting or refusing to make 

 such returns, or to prosecute any offense under said laws of which he shall have 

 personal knowledge, or of which he shall have notice in writing by any citizen, 

 giving the name of the offender together with the names of the witnesses, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine of 

 fifty dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment in the county jail of two months, both 

 or either, at the discretion of the court. 



Approved March 22, 1899. 



Laws of 1901, No. 173, p. 266. 



Arrest; Sunday: Sec 1. Be it enacted, &c, That from and after the passage of 

 this act the game protectors * * * shall have, in addition to the powers con- 

 ferred upon them by said act [of 1895] , the authority to arrest without warrant any 

 person or persons found by them in the act of violating any of the laws of this Com- 

 monwealth now in force, or that may hereafter be enacted for the protection of game, 

 of song and of insectivorous birds, and take such person or persons forthwith before 

 a justice of the peace or other magistrate having jurisdiction, who shall proceed with- 

 out delay to hear, try and determine the matter; such arrest may also be made on 

 Sunday, in which case the person or persons, so arrested, for safe keeping may be 

 committed to the jail for that day, but shall be taken before the proper magistrate 

 and proceeded against as soon as may be on a week day following the arrest. 



Search; Seizure; Disposition of goods seized; Nonliability: Sec 2. Said 

 game protectors shall have power, without warrant, to search and examine any boat, 

 conveyance, vehicle, game-bag, game-coat, or other receptacle for game, when they 

 have good cause to believe that any of the laws of this Commonwealth for the pro- 

 tection of game, of song or of insectivorous birds, have been violated; and the said 

 game protectors shall, at any and all times, have the right to seize and take possession 

 of any and all birds or animals which have been caught, taken or killed, at anytime, 

 in a manner or for a purpose, or had in possession or under control, have been 

 shipped or about to be shipped, contrary to any of the laws of this Commonwealth. 

 Any court having jurisdiction of the offense, upon receiving proof of the probable 



