To prosecute actions and protect state property. Superintendent of fisheries. fish commissioners of other states, or from other persons or sources, the eggs or fry of such species or varieties of food fishes as the said board may deem desirable, and to hatch such spawn or fry, and to plant the same in such of the waters of this state as shall, in their judgment, afford the best opportunity for the propagation of such food fishes; and to make all such investigations on the subject of and such experiments in fish culture as shall, in their judgment, be calculated to promote the objects of this act within this state; and to institute and prosecute actions and proceedings on behalf of the state against any person or persons to recover any claim or claims due said board and arising on contract or otherwise, or to protect the property of the state employed or in any manner connected with the work of said board; and all actions or proceedings instituted by them shall be entitled in the name of the board of game and fish commissioners of the state of Minnesota, as plaintiff. Such board shall employ a competent person as superintendent of fisheries, whose duty it shall be to devote his entire time to the work of fish propagation and distribution under the direction of the board, and such other assistants as the exigencies of the work may require, all such employes to be governed by the regulations adopted by the board. The salary of the superintendent of fisheries shall not exceed the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars per annum. All property owned or leased by the said empt from taxa- board shall be exempt from taxation so long as held and used for the purposes herein specified. Salary provision. Property ex tion. No property in game or fish taken out of season. Close season. Woodcock. Prairie chickens. Quail, part SEC. 6. No person shall at any time acquire any property in any game or fish within the state of Minnesota, or subject any of the same to his own dominion or control, save only by killing the same within the periods and by the means permitted by the laws of the state, and except as permitted by such laws, the game and fish within the state be and remain the property of the state. SEC. 7. No person shall kill, or pursue with intent to kill, any of the animals or birds hereinafter mentioned, within the period hereinafter limited: Woodcock, between the thirty-first (31st) day of October and the fourth (4th) day of July following. Prairie chickens, or white-breasted or sharp-tailed grouse, between the first (1st) day of November and the first (1st) day of September following. Quail, partridge, ruffled grouse, or pheasant, between ridge, grouse or the first (1st) day of November and the first (1st) day of September following. pheasant. Wild duck, goose or brant. Wild duck of any variety, or wild goose or brant of any variety, or snipe of any variety, or any aquatic fowl whatever, between the twenty-fifth (25th) day of April and the twentieth (20th) day of August following. Provided, The possession of any one of such birds or animals (except alive), by any person during the time the Penalty for vioseason. lation of close killing thereof is prohibited shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such person killed the same contrary to the provisions of this section. Whoever, shall offend against any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than twenty-five (25) dollars for each and every bird or animal so killed and the costs of prosecution, and, in default of the payment of any one such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, for each and every bird or animal killed. Provided, That no moose, caribou or reindeer shall be Moose, caribou killed or sold or offered for sale in this state for five (5) or reindeer. years next after the passage of this act. Any person offending under this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 8. No person shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds or animals aforesaid in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held to the shoulder by the person discharging the same. And no person shall at any time set, lay or prepare any trap, snare, net, bird lime, swivel gun or other contrivance or device whatever, with the intent to catch or kill any of the birds or animals aforesaid, whether the same are caught or not. And no person or persons shall at any time, in hunting any aquatic fowl, make use of any artificial light battery, or any deception whatever, whereby such wild fowl will be attracted or deceived (except that decoys may be used in hunting ducks, wild geese and brant). And whoever shall offend against any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than twenty-five (25) dollars and costs of prosecution; or, in default of the payment of such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days. SEC. 9. No persons shall hunt with hounds or dogs any elk, moose, deer, antelope, buck, doe or fawn at any time; and no person shall by any means, contrivance or device whatever kill or take by any means, or pursue with intent to kill, or take or worry any elk, moose, deer, antelope, buck, doe or fawn, at any time between the thirtieth (30th) day of November and the first (1st) day of November following. Whoever shall offend against any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty (50) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and costs of prosecution for each animal so destroyed or pursued, and, in default of the payment of each such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days. Manner of tak ing or killingetc., prohibited. traps, snares, Penalty for ofsection. fenses in this Elk, moose, buck, doe or fawn. deer, antelope, Penalty for ofsection. fenses in this Possession of carcass prima facie evidence. Manner of taking or killing, prohibition of traps or snares. Penalty on con The possession by any one of the carcass, or any part thereof, of any such animal between the fifteenth (15th) day of December in any year and the first (1st) day of November following shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such person killed the same contrary to the provisions of this section. SEC. 10. No person shall at any time catch or kill any of the animals aforesaid in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held to the shoulder by the person discharging the same. And no person shall at any time set, lay or prepare any trap, snare or other contrivance or device whatever, with the intent to kill or catch any of the animals aforesaid. And whoever shall offend against any viction of viola- of the provisions of this section, whether any such animal is taken or killed or not, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty (50) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and costs of prosecution, or, in default of the payment of any such fine, be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days. tion. SEC. 11. Any person or persons, firm, corporation or company who shall purchase, sell, ship or otherwise dispose of, or have in his, her or their possession for his or their own use, or for any other purpose, any of the birds or animals mentioned in this act (except alive) during the time that the killing thereof is hereby prohibited by this act, except during the first fifteen (15) days of the close season as to the animals mentioned in section ten (10) of this act, and except during the first three (3) days of the close season as to the other animals and birds mentioned in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and costs of prosecution for each bird or animal purchased, sold, shipped or otherwise disposed of contrary to this act, and in default of the payment of such fine shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days. The purchase, sale or shipment or possession of any of such birds or animals contrary to the provisions of this section shall be prima facie evidence that such persons purchased, possessed, sold, shipped or disposed of such birds or animals unlawfully and contrary to the provisions of this act. SEC. 12. Any express company, railway company, common carrier, or any other company, corporation or person carrying on business in this state, or any servant or agent or employe of any such company, receiving or having in its, his or their possession, or that shall carry, ship or transport for compensation or otherwise any birds or animals mentioned in this act (except alive), whether for transportation or otherwise, and killed within this Penalty for vio state during the time that the killing of any such bird or meanor. SEC. 13. No person shall at any time enter into any Entering growgrowing or standing grain not his own, with sporting im- ing or standing plements about his person, nor to permit his dog or dogs grain a misdeto enter into any such growing or standing grain, without permission of the owner or occupant thereof; and no person shall at any time hunt or shoot upon any lands of another after being notified not to hunt or shoot thereon, and any person who shall without the right so to do hunt or shoot upon any land of another, after having been notified not to hunt or shoot thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun- Penalty for of ished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more fenses. than fifty (50) dollars and costs of prosecution for each and every offense, to be recovered by action before any justice of the peace of the county where the offense is committed, or of the county where the defendant may reside, to be brought by and in the name of the owner or occupant of the land; or in the default of the payment of such fine shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days; but nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to limit or in any way affect the remedy of the owner or occupant of any such grain or enclosed land or unenclosed land, or of the person injured, at common law, for trespass. Any owner or proprietor of land may give the notice provided for in this section by maintaining the sign-boards at least one (1) foot square containing such notice, upon at least every forty (40) acres of the premises sought to be protected, on or near the borders thereof, or upon or near the shores of any waters thereon, in at least two (2) conspicuous places, or by giving personal written or verbal notice. SEC. 14. It shall be lawful for any person to shoot or kill any dog while such dog is in actual pursuit of any elk, moose, deer, antelope, buck, doe or fawn, in violation of the provisions of this act; and any complaint or objection made Sign-boards. or verbal or may be erected written notice given. Dogs may be killed in wronganimals. ful pursuit of Fish houses may be de stroyed in close season. Close season for mink, muskrat, otter or beaver -penalty for violating. Open season for speckled or brook trout. by the owner of such dog or any other person against such killing shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that such complaining party encouraged such dog in such pursuit. SEC. 15. It shall be lawful for any game warden or any other person to burn or otherwise destroy any fish house erected or maintained upon the ice or in the waters or on the shore of any lake or stream for the purpose of fishing, or any net, set-line, trap or other contrivance placed or maintained in or upon any of the waters of this state at any time when the taking of fish from such waters is forbidden by the law of this state; and any complaint or objection made by any person to the destruction of any of the said articles shall be prima facie evidence of the fact that the person so objecting was then and there engaged in violating the provisions of this act. SEC. 16. Whoever intentionally in any manner whatever kills or takes any mink, musk-rat, otter or beaver during either of the months of May, June, July, August, September or October in any year, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in the sum of five (5) dollars for each such offense; Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to prevent the destruction of any such animals when found destroying private property. All prosecutions under this act shall be commenced within sixty (60) days from the time the offense was committed, and shall be by complaint upon oath before any justice of the peace or municipal court in the county where such offense was committed, or of the county where the defendant may reside, and all fines imposed and collected under this act shall be paid as hereinafter provided. SEC. 17. No person shall catch, kill or take by any means, contrivance or device whatever, or expose for sale in the state of Minnesota, any speckled, river or brook trout, save only during the months of April, May, June, July, August and September in any year; and any person or persons offending against any provision of this section Penalty for tak shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five (5) dollars nor more than fifty (50) dollars, and by the forfeiture of all fishing tackle, baskets and other sporting implements found in his or their possession, together with the costs of prosecution. ing out of sea son. Lake, river or stream fishing, close season provision saving all special laws in force Fishing to be confined to hook and line and spear. SEC. 18. No person shall catch, kill or take by any means, contrivance or device whatever, any fish from any of the lakes, ponds, rivers or streams in any of the counties of the state of Minnesota, in which the taking of fish is now regulated by law, save only during the periods within which and by such means as the taking of such fish is now allowed by law. No person shall catch, kill or take by any means, contrivance or device whatever, any fish from any of the lakes, ponds, rivers or streams in any of the counties of the state of Minnesota not included within the preceding |