Penalty. Skin of animal found dead not any animals it shall be the duty of the drover or drovers, or person in charge of such drove, to cut out and separate such stock from said droves immediately. Every person, either owner or drover, or otherwise connected with said drove, who shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand ($1,000) dollars. SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person other than to be removed. the owner or his agent or employee to skin or remove from the carcass the skin, hide, or pelt of any neat cattle or sheep found dead, except when such stock is killed. by railroad trains, when the employees of such railroads may remove the hides from stock so killed. Rewards for detection of SEC. 9. The county commissioners of the several violators of act, counties may offer and pay rewards for the detection of those violating this act. Acts repealed. Gen. Stats., 73. SEO. 10. An act entitled "An act for the protection of stock growers," approved February 20, 1875; an act entitled "An act to govern stock growers and drovers," approved February 15, 1877; section 79 chapter 58 of said general statutes, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, February 26th, A.D. 1879. To amend sections one,two, and three, of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the catching of game fish in certain cases." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: Act amended. 1875, 23. in certain cases That sections one, two, and three, of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the catching of game fish in certain cases," approved, February 2d, 1875, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or per- Catching fish sons to catch, kill, injure, or destroy any fish in any river, creek, brook, stream, lake, pond, bayou, or other body of water in this state with a seine, trammel net, gill net, pound net, basket, or weir, or in any other manner, whatever, except with a hook and line, spear and fork. It shall be unlawful for any person to set, place, deposit, or drag a seine, or net of any description, or basket, or weir, in any of the above named waters in this state, and every seine, net, basket, or weir, found in any waters of this state, the same may be taken up by any one; Provided, This act shall not be construed to prohibit the owners of private ponds or streams from taking fish therein at any time or in any manner. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than five dollars for each offense, or be im- Penalty. prisoned in the county jail not less than ten days, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to injure, disturb, or destroy, any hatching-box, hatching-house, or pond, used for hatching or propagating fish, or to injure, or destroy, or disturb, any spawn, or fry, or fish, in any hatching-box, hatching-house, or pond, or stream; Provided, That the fish commissioners of this state may take or cause to be taken any of the fish named in this section for the purposes of propogation, or stocking the waters of this state. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars for each fish taken, or held in possession, or other offense under this section, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ten days, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to catch, injure, kill, or destroy any California salmon, land-locked salmon, trout, shad, white fish, or carp, which shall have been planted or placed in any waters of this state by the Fish Commissioners, or by private persons. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars for each fish so taken, injured, killed, or destroyed, or had in possession, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days, or both fined snd imprisoned in the discretion of the court. The having in possession of any fish named in this section, shall be presumptive evidence that the same were taken in violation of law. SEC. 4. Sections one, two, and three of an act enlitled an act to prohibit the catching of game fish in certain cases, approved February 2, 1875, are hereby repealed. This being a case of emergency, this act shall take To take effect. take effect from and after the date of its passage. Approved, February 27, A.D. 1879. AN ACT To provide and regulate the liens of Warehouse Receipts under certain circumstances. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: ceipts in cer SECTION 1. Any packer of pork or beef, or any man- warehouse reufacturer of distilled spirits, having a warehouse for the tain cases. storage of his own product; and any keeper of an elevator where he stores his own grain, may issue receipts for his own meats, spirits, or grain which he actually has so stored, in the usual form of warehouse receipts, which shall have the same force and effect as receipts issued by the keeper of a public warehouse, to parties having property so stored therein, which receipts shall be negotiable by endorsement, and entitle the bona fide Negotiable. holder thereof advancing money upon the credit of the same to a lien upon the property so stored and described Lien. therein for the money so advanced, as to all subsequent purchasers and creditors of any person interested therein from the issue of such receipts and the advance of such money, provided the said receipts, or a copy thereof verified by the oath of the holder of the same, be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such warehouse or elevator may be. To be recorded. SEC. 2. If any person described in the preceding sec- Fraudulent tion shall execute and deliver, or cause to be executed receipts. Penalty. To take effect. and delivered to any other person, false, fraudulent, or fictitious warehouse receipts, acknowledgment, or other instrument in writing to the effect that he had in store in his warehouse or elevator, meats, spirits, or grain, whereas in fact he has not the same so stored, according to the purport or effect of said receipt, acknowledgment, or writing; or, having issued his receipt therefor, as in the preceding section provided, shall remove the property described in such receipt without having first discharged the lien in said section provided, or without the written consent of the holder of such receipt endorsed thereon, with interest [intent] to deceive, or defraud, or injure any person whomsoever; or if any person shall endorse, assign, transfer or deliver to any other person any such false or fraudulent receipt, acknowledgment, or instrument in writing, knowing the same to be false, fraudulent, or fictitious, with the like interest [intent], such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not more than three years nor less than [nor less than] one year. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 27th, A.D. 1879. AN ACT Entitled an Act to amend section one (1) of an Act approved February 25, 1875, entitled "An Act to amend section 86 of an Act entitled 'An Act to establish a Criminal Code.'" Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : SECTION 1. That section one of an act approved |