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visions of law relative to fish and game; and such fish, venison, birds, fowl or game 

 caught, taken or killed or had in possession contrary to the provisions of law are 

 hereby declared to be contraband and shall be sold « by the warden or his deputy to 

 the highest bidder; and any person purchasing the same shall have the right to use, 

 or dispose of the same in the same manner as though the said fish, venison, birds 

 fowl or game had been caught, taken, killed or were had in possession in accordance 

 with the provisions of law, anything to the contrary notwithstanding; * * *. 

 The right to have in possession and dispose of such fish or game so seized and sold shall 

 expire five days after the date of the sale, and the protection to the purchaser given 

 by this section shall then cease. [Last sentence added by Laws of 1899, chap. 312. ] 



Report: Sec. 14981. [As amended by Laws of 1899, chap. 312.] On or before the 

 thirty-first day of December in each year the state fish and game warden shall report 

 to the governor the transactions of his department, including the work of himself 

 and deputies and such other information as may be valuable to the state concerning 

 the enforcement of the fish and game laws during the year preceding. 



Public nuisances; Destruction: Sec. 1498o. [As amended by Laws of 1899, 



chap. 312.] The following are declared to be public nuisances: 



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4. Any nets spread upon or under the surface of any of the waters of the state which 

 shall or might entrap or ensnare any wild fowl of any kind. 



5. Any trap, snares, spring gun, set guns or other device or contrivance which 

 might entrap, ensnare or kill any animals, birds or water-fowl protected by law. 



6. Any boats, lamps or lights when used in the unlawful taking or attempting to 

 take fish or game. 



7. Any pivot or swivel gun or other firearm, not habitually held at arm's length 

 and discharged from the shoulder, while the same shall be in unlawful use. 



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9. Any boat, floating raft, box or blind set in open water or outside a natural growth 

 of grasses or rushes sufficiently high to conceal the boat, raft or blind, or an artificial 

 blind set in open water for the unlawful pursuit, hunting or shooting of any wild 

 duck, goose or brant. 



10. All decoys set in any of the waters of the state, during the close season for the 

 hunting of any variety of water-fowl as prescribed by law, and any decoys set in the 

 water more than two hundred feet from the cover, which said cover shall be construed 

 to mean the weeds, rushes or other vegetation in which the hunter may locate, or any 

 place in which the hunter shall wholly or partially conceal himself. 



11. The unlawful use of any of the articles mentioned in this section, contrary to 

 the provisions of law, shall forfeit the same to the state, and upon their being found 

 under any of the conditions which shall render them public nuisances as specified 

 herein they may be immediately destroyed. 



Examination of license records: Sec. 1498t. [As amended by Laws of 1899, 

 chap. 312.] The state fish and game warden, or either of his deputies may, at any 

 time examine the records of licenses issued by county clerks. 



Annotated Statutes, 1898, chap. 185, p. 2753. 



Decoys; Hunting license fund: Sec 4563b. [As amended by Laws of 1903, 

 chap. 437, prohibiting use of more than 25 decoys in hunting aquatic fowl.] All de- 

 coys used in violation of the provisions of this section are hereby declared to be 

 contraband, and may be seized and sold to the highest bidder under the direction of 

 the game warden, and the net proceeds of the sale to go into the hunting license 

 fund. ' 



« See Act of 1907. 



