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FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
STATE GAME PRESERVES. 
An Act to provide for the transfer to the State 
of California by owners of patented lands 
therein of the right to preserve and protect 
wild game on such patented lands; to define 
the duties of the State Board of Fish Commis- 
sioners in relation to the control of such 
rights, and to declare the hunting of wild 
game within the exterior boundaries of the 
land to v/hich such right attaches, a misde- 
meanor. 
[Approved March 21, 1907. Section 1 of the Act of 
March 21, 1907, was amended, and the amendment 
approved March 20, 1909.] 
1 Jib people of the State of G alif ovnia, TepTesented in 
Senate and Assenihlp, do enact as follows.' 
SECTioisr 1. Section 1, of an Act entitled an 
Act to provide for the transfer to the State of Cali- 
fornia by owners of patented lands therein, of the 
right to preserve and protect wild game on such 
patented lands; to define the duties of the State 
Board of Fish Commissioners in relation to the 
control of such right, and to declare the hunting of 
wild game within the exterior boundaries of the 
land to which such right attaches, a misdemeanor 
approved March 21st, 1907, is hereby amended to 
read as follows : 
Section 1. Any person, firm or corporation, own- 
ing and in possession of patented lands in the State 
of California, embracing an area of not less than 
one hundred and sixty acres, may transfer, by an 
instrument in writing duly acknowledged before an 
