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ficient evidence to convict the offender by every Magistrate before whom informa- 

 tion shall be made of any of the offenses aforesaid: Provided, That where the owners 

 of any lands shall prosecute for any unlawful hunting and ranging on his or her 

 lands, the oath of such owner shall be sufficient evidence to convict the offender; 

 but in that case the whole penalty shall go to the use of the poor of the County. 



Acts of 1903. No. 75, p. 116. 



Prima facie evidence: Sec. 1. [Amending an act amending sec. 431 , vol. 2, Revised 

 Statutes, 1893.] * * * That the handling, possession, control or ownership of 

 any partridge or quail, sold or offered for sale, or shipped or exported, shall be prima 

 facie evidence of a violation of this Section [prohibiting sale and export of quail, deer, 

 and wild turkey for five years, ] and the burden of proof shall be upon any persons 

 so handling, possessing, controlling or owning any such partridge or quail to show 

 that such partridge or quail was imported from another State or Territory. * * * 



Acts of 1905, No. 489, p. 963. 



County game warden: Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of South Carolina, That the Governor shall, with the advice and consent of the Senate, 

 appoint for each County a game warden, whose duty it shall be to see that the law 

 for the protection of game, game birds and insectivorous birds shall be strictly 

 enforced. 



Hoad and jury duty: Sec. 2. That said game warden shall be exempt from road 

 and jury duty. 



Report: Sec 3. Said warden shall report to each term of the Court of General 

 Sessions all violations of the law for the protection of game, game birds and insectiv- 

 orous birds and what has been done to punish the offenders. 



Approved March 7, 1905. 



Acts of 1905, No. 463, p. 933. 



An act to preserve game, fish, shell fish and terrapin in and on the public lands and waters of the 



state, and to provide license. 



County supervisors and commissioners; Inspectors; Compensation: Sec 8. 

 The County Supervisors and County Commissioners are charged with the enforce- 

 ment of the provisions of this Act in each County (any citizen, however, having the 

 right to proceed upon any infraction thereof as in the case of any other infraction of 

 the law). And to that end, the County Board of Commissioners of each County be, 

 and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to put some competent person or 

 persons as Inspector or Inspectors, who shall be charged with the enforcement of 

 this Act in their respective Counties, and who shall receive such compensation as 

 the County Board of Commissioners of each County may determine, not to exceed 

 in the aggregate ten per cent, of the licenses and fines paid to the County under this 

 Act. * * * 



Arrest; Seizure; Sale of seized game: Sec 12. Any person found in the act of 

 violating the provisions of this Act may be at once arrested, and any boat, vessel, 

 fiat, tongs, dredge, net or lines, gun or other instruments or utensils in his possession 

 and used for the purpose of so violating the provisions of this Act, and all game fish, 

 shell fish or terrapin, in his possession, procured in violation of the provisions of 

 this Act, may be seized, and upon conviction of such person of such violation, all 

 the same shall be forfeited to the State and shall be sold as in the case of the sale of 

 other property sold under judicial processes, and the proceeds divided equally 

 between the State and the County. 



Approved Feb. 22, 1905. 





