WISCONSIN. IS'6 



Any person violating the provisions of this section shall upon conviction thereof, 

 be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Any 

 shipment made or had in possession in violation of this law may be seized, confis- 

 cated and sold l)y any warden as provided by law. 



Unmarked packages: Sec. 21. It shall be unlawful, and is hereby prohibited, 

 for any common carrier or agent, servant or employee of a common carrier, to 

 receive for transportation or transport any package or parcel containing fish or game, 

 unless the same shall be labeled as provided in sections 19 and 20 of this act. Any 

 person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be required 

 to forfeit to the State of Wisconsin a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 

 tlian one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. 



Examination: Sec. 22. It shall be within the power of every officer charged with 

 the enforcement of laws protecting fish and game to examine and open any pack- 

 age in the possession of a transportation company, which said package he shall 

 suspect or have reason to believe contains contraband fish or game. It is hereby 

 made the duty of every common carrier, agent, servant or employe thereof, to per- 

 mit any officer charged with the enforcement of laws for the protection of fish and 

 game to examine and open any package or parcel in the possession of said common 

 carrier, or agent, servant or employe thereof, which the said officer so charged with 

 the enforcement of said laws shall suspect or have reason to believe contains fish or 

 game protected by the laws of the State, and not entitled under such law to be trans- 

 ported, or Avhen the said officer shall suspect or have reason to believe that the said 

 package or parcel is falsely labeled. Any person, firm or corporation refusing to an 

 officer charged with the enforcement of the fish and game laws permission to examine 

 or open any such package or parcel or shall in any manner hinder or impede such 

 action by the said officer, shall forfeit to the State of Wisconsin a sum not less than 

 fifty dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars, in the discretion of the 

 court. 



Sec. 23. It shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited for any person, firm or cor- 

 poration acting as common carrier to bring into this State any fish or game from any 

 State during the time that such otlier State prohibits the transportation of such fish 

 or game from said State to a point without the same. Any person, firm or corpora- 

 tion violating the provisions of this section shall be required to forfeit to the State 

 the sum of not less than twenty -five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars in 

 the discretion of the court. 



Property of State: Sec. 26. Section 4560, Wisconsin statutes of 1898 is hereby 

 amended to read as follows: The ownership of and the title to all fish and game in 

 the state of Wisconsin is hereby declared to be in the state, and no fish or game shall 

 be caught, taken or killed in any manner at any time, or had in possession except 

 the person so catching, taking, killing or having in possession shall consent that tlie 

 title to said fish and game shall be and remain in the state of Wisconsin for the pur- 

 pose of regulating and controlling the use and disposition of the same after such catch- 

 ing, taking or killing. The catching, taking, killing or having in possession of fish 

 or game at any time, or in any manner, or by any person, shall be deemed a consent 

 of said person that the title of the state shall be and remain in the state for said pur- 

 pose ot regulating the use and disposition of the same, and said possession shall be 

 consent to such title in the state whether said fish or game w^ere taken within or 

 without this state. 



Game in transit: Sec. 28. It shall l^e unlawful and is prohibited for any person, 

 firm or corporation or common carrier to ship into, or through this State from any 

 other State any fish or game prohibited by the laws of said State to be shipped or 

 transported and it shall be the duty of the State fish and game warden of this State 

 or his deputy, to seize, hold, and dispose of, according to the laws of this State, any 

 fish or game brought into or shipped into this State, or carried through, or attempted 



