238 • GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



cause for believing in the concealment of any bird or animal caught, taken, killed,, 

 had in possession, under control, shipped or about to be shipped, contrary to any 

 law of this Commonwealth, shall issue a search warrant, and cause a search to be 

 made in any place; and to that end may, after demand and refusal, cause any build- 

 ing, enclosure or car to be entered, and any apartment, chest, locker, box, trunk, 

 crate, basket, bag or package, to be broken open and the contents thereof to be 

 examined by said protector. All birds or animals classed as game, found therein in 

 violation of law, shall be seized by the protector making the search, who shall, as 

 soon as may be thereafter, forward said game to the nearest hospital, for the use of 

 the sick or injured therein; the bodies or parts of bodies of all song or insectivorous 

 birds, so taken, shall, unless needed for evidence, be destroyed; all guns, gunning 

 appliances, shooting apparatus, trap or gunning apparel, found in said receptacle or 

 receptacles, where the search warrant is issued against a non-resident, shall be seized 

 by said protector, and held, subject to the payment of the maximum penalty attached 

 by law to the offense charged, and the costs of prosecution; said goods to be sold at 

 public auction, after the lapse of twenty days from the date of seizure, and failure of 

 the reputed owner to appear and defend himself against the charges preferred; and 

 such game protector or protectors shall not be liable for damages on account of any 

 arrest, search, examination, seizure or sale, made in accordance with the provisions 

 of this act. 



Obtaining" evidence; Disposition of game thus used: Sec. 3. Any of the game 

 protectors of this State shall have the right for the purpose of securing evidence 

 wherewith to convict of violations of the game law, to purchase or sell game, the 

 purchase or sale of which is otherwise forbidden, and shall not be liable to any of 

 the fines or penalties imposed by law for the purchase or sale of game. All game 

 remaining in the hands of a protector, after the purpose for which it was procured 

 shall have been accomplished, shall be forwarded to the nearest hospital for the use 

 of the sick or injured therein. 



Resisting 1 officers; Aid for officers: Sec. 4. Any person or persons interfering 

 with any of the game protectors of this Commonwealth in the discharge of their 

 duties, or resisting arrest, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, or be 

 imprisoned in the county jail for a period of one day for each dollar of penalty 

 imposed. Any game protector is hereby authorized to call to his aid any citizen or 

 citizens of this Commonwealth, for assistance as needed in making an arrest. 



Compensation: Sec 5. That the game protectors, so appointed, shall receive 

 salary or pay per day, as may be agreed upon by the Game Commission, with 

 expenses not to exceed two dollars per day outside of traveling expenses; said expense 

 account to be itemized and presented under oath. * * * Provided, That the 

 combined expense account of the Game Commission shall not exceed the amount set 

 apart by law to their use. 



Approved May 21, 1901. 



Laws of 1901, No. 308, p. 612. 



Trespass: Sec 1. Be it enacted, &c, That on and after the passage of this act, 

 any person or persons trespassing on any cultivated lands in this Commonwealth, 

 for the purpose of hunting and trapping and taking therefrom any game birds or 

 game animals, after public notice by the owner, lessee or occupant thereof, such 

 notice to be posted on, and adjacent to such cultivated lands, shall be guilty of wil- 

 ful trespass, and in addition to the damages recoverable by law shall be liable to the 

 owner, lessee, or occupant in a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each and every 

 such offense. 



Arrest; Trial: Sec 2. Any justice of the peace or alderman, upon information or 

 complaint made before him, by affidavit, of the violation of the provisions of this act 



