The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-11-17

session, sell or offer for sale, any
mountain or brook trout, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Every
person who shall, within tire State of
Oregon, take or attempt to take, or
catch, with any seine, net, weir or
other device other than hook and
line, any mountain or brook trout, at
any time after, the passage of this act,
shall be guilty of misdemcanor.
SEC. s. Every person who shall,
within the State of Oregon, at any
time after the passage of this act,
tral, net Or ensnare, or attempt TO
trap, net or ensnare, any quail or bob
white, prairie chicken, grouse or
| pheasant, or have in possession any
live quail or bob white, prairie ceick-
en-, grouse or pheasant. shall be
guilty of misdemeanor.
SEC. 9. Every person who shall,
within the State of Oregon, at any
time after the passage of this act, de-
stroy or remove from the nest of any
mallard duck, widseon, wood duck,
teal, spoonbill, gray, black sprigtail
or canvass back duck, prairie chicken
or sage hen, grouse, pheasant, quail
or partridge, or other wild fowls any
egg OF eggs of such fowls or birds,
or have in possession: sell or offer for
sale, any such egg or eggs, or wllfnl-
ly destroy the nest of any such fowls
or birds, shall be guilty of misde-
meanCr.
SEC. 10. Every person who shall
have any male deer or buck, or any
female deer or doe, or spotted fawn,
elk, moose or mountain sheep, swan,
malard duck, wood duck, widgeon,
teal, spoonbill, gray, black, sprigtail
or canvass back duck, prairie chicken
OF sage hen, grouse, pheasant, quail,
bob white or partridge, mountain or
brook trout, lat any time when it is
unlawful to take or kill the same, as
provided IN this act, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and proof Of the
possession of any of these aforesaid
animals, fowls, birds or fish at a time
when it is unlawful to take or kill the
same, in the county where the same is
found, shall be 7orinaa .facie evidence
in any prosecution for violation of
any of the provisions of this act, that
the person or persons in whose pos
session the same is found took, killed
or destroyed the same IN the county
wherein the same is found during the
period when it was unlawful TO take,
xii! or destroy the same.
Sec. II. Every person convicted
Of violation Of any Of the pr,vis-
ions of this act shall be punished by
fine of not less than ten dollars and
not more than three hundred dollars,
or imprisonment in the coanty Jail
of the county where the otfense was
committed for not less than five days
nor more than three months, or both
such imprisonment and fine. One
half of all moneys collected for fines
for violation of the provisions of this
act shall be paid TO informers, and
one-halfto the district attorney in
the county in which the case is pros
ecutcd.
Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts
in conflict herewith are hereby re
pca!ed.
Secretary French Abrogates the Ant1-Chi-
nese~ Laws.
The Urited States was supposed
to be governed by constitutional law;
now the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury has taken the reins into his
hands and proposes to lun the coun-
try irrespective of Congress or Su-
preme Courts as Consul Bee is
very naively reported to have said,
SIT is hardly possible that the Judges
of the Supreme Court will reverse
the under Secretary's decision" We
have arrived at the political millen-
lum at last, and bosses, corrupt leg
islation, suspicious congressional ses-
sions, the@vagaries of supreme courts
etc, are now things of tho present,
for The Assistant Secretary is now at
the helm. = 'rr
To be palmer, the gentleman re-
ferred to, has perpetrated the gross
est outrage on common sense and
popular rights known in the country
since the era preceding the revolu-
ton. OF course the Assistant Sec
re,ary is not alone; he has got
powerful capitalistic party at his
back, who will stop at nothing to
degrade and enslave, and to worry
and annoy the people of the Pacific
Coast. -@h.
Under this decision it is supposed
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