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FISH AND GAME LAWS. 
POWERS OF BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS. 
Extracts from County Government Act. 
An Act to establish a uniform system of county and 
township governments. 
[Approved April 1, 1897 ; Stats. 1897, p. 452.] 
Section 1. The several counties of this State, 
as they now exist, and such other counties as may 
be hereafter organized, according to law, are bodies 
corporate and politic, and as such have the povv^ers 
specified in this Act, and such other powers as are 
necessarily implied. 
GENEEAL PERMANENT POWERS OF BOARD. 
Sec. 25. The Boards of Supervisors, in their 
respective counties, shall have jurisdiction and 
power, under such limitations and restrictions as 
are prescribed by law — 
Subdivision 28. To provide by ordinances, not 
in conflict with the general laws of the State, for 
the protection of fish and game, and may shorten 
the season for the taking or killing of fish and 
game, within the dates fixed by the general State 
laws, but shall not lengthen the same. 
