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FISH AND GAME LAWS, 
STATE GAME RESERVATIONS. 
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Section 1. Any person, firm or corporation, 
owning 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 officer authorized under the laws of this 
state to take acknowledgments, to the State of 
California, the right to preserve and protect all 
wild game on the land described therein for a 
period of not less than ten years. Such instru- 
ment shall be filed with the state board of Fish 
Commissioners ; whereupon such board may in its 
discretion declare the lands described in such in- 
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strument a state game preserve, and thereafter for 
the period named therein, shall, for all the purposes 
relating to the preservation and protection of wild 
game, be under the control of said board. Such 
preserve shall be numbered in the order of the 
filing of the instrument of transfer thereof. A 
copy of the declaration establishing the same shall, 
under the seal of said board, be issued to such 
person, firm or corporation, transferring the right 
therefor. During the period named in such in- 
strument it shall be unlawful for any person to 
hunt, pursue, shoot, take, kill or destroy any wild 
game within the exterior boundaries thereof. The 
state board of Fish Commissioners shall cause to 
be prepared suitable notices to be posted under 
its direction on each state game preserve and such 
notice shall describe the lands constituting the 
same, and shall contain a warning to all persons 
to refrain for the period named therein from 
violations of the provisions of this act ; provided, 
however, that no provision in this act contained 
shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing any 
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