Fl^H AND GAME LAWS. 7 
POWERS AND DUTIES OF FISH AND GAME 
COMMISSIONERS. 
An Act to amend Section 642 of the Political 
Code of the State of California, relating to the 
Fish Commissioners and their assistants and 
prescribing their powers and duties. 
[Approved March 25, 1909.] 
The people of the State of California, represented in 
Senate and Assemhly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Section 642 of the Political Code of 
the State of California is hereby amended to read 
as follows : 
§ 642. It is the duty of the Fish Commissioners : 
1. To see that the laws for the preservation of 
fish and game are strictly enforced ; and for that 
purpose they may, from time to time, employ such 
assistants as they shall deem necessary, vrhich 
persons so appointed as assista.nts shall be public 
officers and shall have all the powers and authority 
of sheriffs or other peace officers to make arrests 
for violation of such .laws, and to serve all proc- 
esses and notices throughout the State. 
The Fish Commissioners or their assistants shall 
seize and take possession of any and all game or 
fish or any part thereof which have been caught, 
taken, killed, or had in possession, or under control, 
or sold or offered for sale, or shipped, or offered for 
shipment, contrar 5 '^ to any of the laws of this State, 
and all such game, fish or any part thereof which 
may be so seized and taken possession of by the 
