The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-12-24


State of nature and commonly so call
ed; the word fish wherever used in
the game laws understood to mean
fresh water fish.
Sec. 1905. Boards of supervisors
given full authority to protect game
and fish and to appoint game warden
Game warden given authority to APP
point deputies to any number.
Sec. 2306. Boards of supervisors
given authority to regulate conditions
under which game may be taken. but
forbidden TO permit taking of game
at time prohibited by law.
Senes Are Barred.
Sec. 2307. Boards of supervisors
given additional authority to modify
or enact regulations not contrary to
law, and to enforce same.
Sec. 230S Boards of supervisors
given authority to publish their regu-
lations,
Sec. 23O9 Boards of supervisors
given authority to entirely prohibit
taking of game for specified periods.
Sec 2310. Game taken unlawfullv
as well as hunting and fishing appli-
ances declared liable to forfeiture to
the State.
Sec 2311. Boards of supervisors
given authority to dispose of hunting
and fishing appliances forfeited.
Sec. 1912. Boards of supervisors
given power to prohibit the use of
seines, barrelnets. gill-nets and other
like contrivances for taking fish or TO
restrict the use of same to streams.
lakes and ponds that annually go dry.
and TO pass all necessary regulations
for the use of such appliances.
Sec. 2313. Boards of supervisors
given authority TO prohibit or regulate
the use of fish traps; every fish tran
constructed so as TO obstruct entirely
the passage of fish to be declared nm.
lawful, and may be removed as a nuis.
ance.
Sec. 2314. Judicial administration OF
the orders of the boards of sinner
visors declared to rest with any justice
OF the peace, mayor or police judge of
any city town or village. and violat-
ions of such orders to be DISPOSED of
as any other matter affecting public
police and order.
Sec, 2315. Declared the duty of
game warden. sheriff constable civ
town or village marshals to arrest
with or without process, any persons
they know or have reasons to believe
to be violating orders of boards of Sill
pervisors, TO confscate all game and
appliances in possession of such per
son, and to convey him before the
proper jurisdiction for trial
States Own Birds.
Sec. 2316. All wild birds other than
game birds, both resident and migra-
tory, found in the State. at any season
OF the year, declared to be property
of the State.
Sec. 2317 Declared illegal for anv
person to kill or catch. or have in DOS
session, living or dead, any resident or
migratory bird other than a game bird.
or purchase, offer, expose for sale
transport, or ship within or without
the State any such wild bird after If
has been killed or caught. except as
permitted in this chapter: no part Of
the plumage, skin or body of any birds
so protected to be sold or had in DOS
session for sale, irrespective of whetb.
er killed within or without the State.
Game birds declared to be the follow.
ing: Swans, geese, brant. wood duck.
river and sea duck, rails (mud hens)
coots' gallinules, surf birds, snipa
woodcock, sandpipers, tatlers. curlews.
ployers, grosbec, wild turkey, quail.
doves, cedar birds and robins.
Sec. 2S1S. Nests and eggs of wild
birds other than game birds not to be
taken or needlessly destroyed or had
in possession except as permitted bv
section 23lS. Penalty for violation.
five dollars, or Imprisonment for thirty
days, or both, for each bird or part of
bird or nest or set of eggs had in pos
session unlawfully.
Game Birds Defined.
CNote that in section 2916. 2317 and
23lS, where the term other than game
birds is used, the intention is to dis
tinguish between non-game birds and