264 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



erty forfeited under the last section may be seized with or without warrant by any 

 sheriff or constable, or any game warden of the Commonwealth within their respec- 

 tive jurisdictions, and held to await judgment. The offender shall be carried before 

 a justice of the county in which the offense was committed, and a report be made to 

 him of the property, if any, seized. The justice shall proceed to try the case and 

 give judgment thereon. If judgment be rendered against the offender, it shall be 

 for the forfeitures, pecuniary and otherwise, and the costs and expenses incurred, 

 and auy property seized,, adjudged to be forfeited, shall be delivered to the person 

 entitled to the forfeiture in part satisfaction of the judgment. If the offender does 

 not satisfy the judgment in full, the justice shall commit him to jail for one month, 

 unless such satisfaction be sooner made. If the offender be acquitted, any property 

 seized shall be released. 



Recognizance: Sec. 2074. If a person be convicted a third time of any of the 

 offenses mentioned in this chapter, the justice rendering judgment therefor shall 

 require him to give a recognizance, with sufficient surety, for his good behavior for 

 a year; and if he fail to give such surety, commit him to jail for one month, unless 

 he sooner give it. Such recognizance shall be deemed to be forfeited if such person 

 commit any of the said offenses within the time limited in the recognizance. 



WASHINGTON. 



Supplement to Ballinger's Codes and Statutes, 1899-1903, p. 599. 



State warden: [Sec] 7363a. There is hereby created the office of state game 

 warden, and the state fish commissioner « shall be ex-officio such officer. 



Powers; Duties; County wardens: The state game warden shall have full con- 

 trol and supervision over all county game wardens appointed in pursuance to any 

 statute now existing on the statute books of this state, and may have the power to 

 appoint said county game wardens special deputy fish commissioners for the county 

 in which said county game wardens may reside and shall have general supervision 

 over the enforcement and execution of all laws of this state for the protection of 

 game animals, game birds, song birds and game fish, and shall have all the authority 

 and powers as a peace officer conferred on county game wardens by any law of this 

 state. 



Report: The said state game warden in connection with his report as said fish 

 commissioner, shall annually, on December first, report to the governor of this state 

 a full account of his actions as said state game warden; also the operation and result 

 of all laws pertaining to the protection of game animals, game birds and game 

 fish. * * * 



County wardens; Peace officers; Forest rangers; Search: [Sec] 7364. It 

 is hereby made the duty of every game warden so appointed, [by county commis- 

 sioners] and every sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, city marshal and police officer, 

 within their respective jurisdictions in the state of Washington, to enforce all the 

 provisions of this act, and all laws for the protection of game birds and animals, fish 

 and song birds, and such sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, city marshals, police 

 officers, or any forest rangers appointed by the United States Government, and each 

 of them, by virtue of their election and appointment, are hereby created and con- 

 stituted ex-officio game wardens for their respective jurisdictions, and they and each 

 of them, and each and every game warden so appointed, under the provisions of the 

 preceding section, shall have authority, and it shall be their duty to inspect all. 

 depots, warehouses, cold storage rooms, storerooms, hotels, restaurants, markets and 



«Fish commissioner appointed by the governor for four years, under a bond of 

 $5,000, at a salary of $2,000 per annum and allowed $1,000 per annum for traveling 

 expenses. May apply to the attorney general lor his opinion upon any law affecting 

 his official duties. 



