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demeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any 
justice of the peace of said county, or police judge 
of any city within said county, shall be punished by 
a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in 
default of payment of such fine, shall be imprisoned 
in the county jail of said county, or within a city 
prison within said county, not more than six 
months, nor less than one month. 
Sec. 4. The fines collected under this act shall 
be paid into the county treasury, in all cases prose- 
cuted before a justice of the peace, and into the 
city treasury, in all cases of prosecution before a 
police judge of any city within the county. 
[Enacted 1869.] 
SEA-LIONS IN SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL. 
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Penal Code, § 637c. Every person who shoots 
or otherwise kills, destroys, wounds, maims, takes, 
captures or cripples, by seines, set-nets, nets, traps, 
nets or any other kind of fixed, permanent or loose 
trap or contrivance, any seal or sea-lion in the 
waters of the Santa Barbara channel, or on, near 
or about any lands adjacent thereto, is guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is pun- 
ishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dol- 
lars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment ; provided, that the state Fish Commission 
may grant permission to any person whom it deems 
fit, to kill, trap, net, or capture alive, seals or sea- 
lions for scientific or exhibition purposes, the numr 
ber allowed to be killed or captured to be specified 
in said permit. 
[Enacted 1909.] 
^Indictable misdemeanor, triable only in superior courts. 
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