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all packages or boxes, held either for storage or shipment, which they shall have 

 reason to believe contain evidence of the infraction of any of the provisions of this 

 act. And if, upon inquiry said officer discovers that sufficient evidence exists to 

 justify the same, he shall at once instistute proceedings to punish the alleged 

 offenders. 



Arrest; Trial; Prosecuting" officer: [Sec] 7366. Any game warden appointed 

 under the provisions of this act, any sheriff, deputy sheriff, city marshal, constable 

 or police officer, forest ranger, may, without warrant, arrest any person by him found 

 violating any of the provisions of this act, or any other act or acts hereafter enacted 

 and enforced, at any time for the protection of game, fish and song birds, and take 

 such person or persons before a justice of the peace or municipal judge having juris- 

 diction, who shall proceed without delay to hear, try and determine the matter, and 

 give and enter judgment according to the allegations and proof. All such actions 

 shall be brought in the name of the state of Washington and shall be prosecuted by 

 the prosecuting attorney of the respective counties. 



Presumptive evidence: [Sec] 7371. * * * Possession of any of the animals or 

 game birds mentioned or named herein, [deer, moose, caribou, antelope, mountain 

 sheep, mountain goat, quail, Chinese or Mongolian pheasant, grouse, native pheasant, 

 ptarmigan, partridge, prairie chicken, sage hen, wild duck, goose, swan, brant, sand- 

 hill crane, snipe, rail, and plover] or any of the meat of the same, except the number 

 of ducks, geese, brant or snipe permitted to be taken during the month of November 

 of any year, shall be presumptive evidence that said animals, birds, or the meat of 

 the same was unlawfully taken by the person having possession of the same, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided; * * * 



Game protection fund; Satisfaction of judgment: [Sec] — . All moneys 

 received and all fines collected under this act shall be paid to the treasurer of the 

 county in which the suit, action or proceeding shall have been commenced and placed 

 by him in the game protection fund to be used for the protection or propagation 

 of game in said county, and the prosecuting attorney, justice of the peace or judge 

 of any county, upon the payment of any fine or judgment, may satisfy the same of 

 record for the state. * * * 



Laws of 1905, chap. 172, p. 349. 



Chief deputy; Compensation; Certificate; Duties: Sec 1. The state game 

 warden shall appoint one chief deputy state game warden, who shall hold his office 

 during the pleasure of the state game warden, and shall receive a salary of fifteen 

 hundred dollars ($1500) per year, to be paid in monthly installments, by the state 

 treasurer on warrant drawn by the state auditor, and shall be allowed his actual 

 expenses of travel in the performance of his duty, not to exceed the sum of seven 

 hundred and fifty dollars ($750) in any one year; and no payment of salary or trav- 

 eling expenses shall be made by the state auditor to said deputy state game warden, 

 except upon certificate of the state game warden, that the vouchers of the deputy 

 state game warden are correct, that the services have been faithfully rendered and 

 the money for traveling expenses actually expended. The duties of the chief deputy 

 game warden shall be to enforce all the provisions of law in reference to the protec- 

 tion of game and to prosecute all violations of law in reference thereto, to direct and 

 supervise all acts of county and special deputy game wardens, and to use all lawful 

 ways and means to protect game and to encourage and secure the propagation 

 thereof. 



County wardens; Salary: Sec 2. The county commissioners of the respective 

 counties of the State of Washington are hereby empowered and authorized to and 

 shall, upon application in writing of one hundred resident freeholders and taxpayers 

 of said county, appoint a suitable person, who shall be a resident and qualified 

 elector of said county, as game warden of such county, who shall be vested with all 



