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 Otapter 668, Laws of 1917 
 
 laws are in force and effect onbl July I, 1919 
 md beyond that date unless changed by the legitlatw* 
 of 19195 or changed under Section 29J21 
 
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 Published by the 
 STATE OF WISCONSW 
 
 Madison. 1917 
 
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 MAY 25 !913 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 In presenting this pamphlet of Wisconsin Fish 
 and Game Laws, we believe that we are handing 
 you a comprehensive and effective code of laws for 
 the conservation and protection of fish and game 
 and at the same time, giving the people legitimate 
 opportunity for the enjoyment of these resources, 
 as was ever presented to the citizens of any State. 
 
 These laws represent many weeks of diligent 
 study and hard work by the Wisconsin Legislature 
 and the Conservation Commission, with the ob- 
 ject in view of giving the people every opportunity 
 of using these resources, consistent with Nature's 
 laws for proper conservation. In no instance has 
 it been the object of either the legislature or the 
 Conservation Commission to place such restrictions 
 in the laws as would deny the people abundant op- 
 portunity for the enjoyment of these resources, 
 and the open seasons, and bag limits prescribed are 
 generous in their provisions. 
 
 For the enforcement of the limitations prescribed 
 in these laws severe penalties are provided for any 
 violation of its provisions. Fifty Dollars being the 
 minimum and One Thousand Dollars the maximum 
 fines provided, together with the cancelling of the 
 license of the offender. These heavy penalties, we 
 believe, wTll meet with the approval of every right- 
 thinking citizen, as it will surely produce a whole- 
 some respect for the law and result in materially 
 increasing the supply of fish and game in Wis- 
 consin. 
 
The courts have held that flsh and game belong 
 to all of the people, and all should enjoy an equ*l i 
 opportunity in the use of them, and we believe 
 that adequate laws are herein provided to protect 
 all in their rights' with just punishment to the of- 
 fenders. 
 
 The protective organizations throughout the State 
 Y/ield a powerful influence, for conservation and 
 this Commission have enjoyed their hearty coop- 
 eration in the enforcement of the laws and in edu 
 eating the people to a proper understanding of the 
 value of wild life resources to the people. We 
 anticipate that this same feeling will continue in 
 the future as it has in the past, which insures for 
 the coming two years added interest among the 
 people for a respectful observance of the laws. 
 
 All violations of the law, the enforcement of 
 which the Conservation Commission is responsible, 
 will be vigorously prosecuted. Information of such, 
 violations should be reported as promptly as pos- 
 sible to the Commission or to a Conservation War- 
 den. 
 
 STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 
 
Hunting 
 
 Fac* 
 
 NO PERSON shall be permitted to hunt In the 
 istate of "Wisconsin without having first pur- 
 chased a hunting license from the county 
 clerk of the county in which such person re- 
 sides 34 
 
 NO PERSON who has not reached the age of 15 
 years and no person who is not full citizen 
 of the United States shall be permitted to 
 hunt in the state of Wisconsin 34 
 
 HUNTING DEFINED 24 
 
 WILD ANIMAL DEFINED 23 
 
 LICENSES. 
 
 Resident hunting licenses 36 
 
 Settlers' hunting licenses 36 
 
 Duplicate licenses 35 
 
 Nonresident hunting licenses 37 
 
 Trappers' licenses 38 
 
 Guide licenses 51 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Open and close seasons, bag limits 41-43 
 
 Game bird huntin g 53 
 
 Sunrise and sunset shooting 53 
 
 Open water 53 
 
 Open water shooting 53 
 
 Decoys (live) 54 
 
 Decoys (artificial) 53 
 
 Decoys (left unattended) 53 
 
 TRANSPORTATION of deer, birds, and other 
 
 game 80-82 
 
 INTER-STATE TRANSPORTATION 8i 
 
 POSSESSION of deer, birds and other game.. 77, 7S 
 
 POISON BAITS for wolves, wild cat and lynx.. 100 
 
 DEER TAGS 36, 77 
 
 TRUNKS and VALISES 80 
 
6 State Conservation Commissioii. 
 
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 RESTRICTED METHODS of hunting 51-53 
 
 SALE OF GAME prohibited 85 
 
 SERVING OF GAME prohibited 85 
 
 GUNS CARRIED in vehicles 51 
 
 FERRETS in possession 51 
 
 RABBIT hunting 515 
 
 DEER hunting 52 
 
 LIGHTS for shining deer 5? 
 
 DEER heads and skins 77 
 
 SKINS of fur bearing animals 78 
 
 HUNTING fur bearing animals 53 
 
 TRAPPING law 38 
 
 BEAVER LAW (Price, Rusk and Sawyd'r coun- 
 ties only) 94-95 
 
 FEDERAL LAWS 110 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 
 
 Fishing 
 
 (INLAND WATERS) 
 
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 Fish classified 2b 
 
 Waters classified 23 
 
 Open and close season, size limit, bag limit.. 41-43 
 
 Public nuisances 24 
 
 FISH DEFINED as wild animal 23 
 
 NONRESIDENT FISHING LICENSES 38 
 
 SET LINE licenses 75 
 
 NET LICENSES for taking cisco and whitefish 72 
 Waters in which there is no close season for 
 
 hook fishing 4^ 
 
 ICE fishing 56 
 
 Spearing fish 55-56 
 
 Fishing shanties 57 
 
 Dynamite, use of 57 
 
 Medicated bait, use of 57 
 
 DIP NETS 62 
 
 NETS, use of 60 
 
 MINNOW NET^ 62 
 
 POLLUTING inland waters C7-5S 
 
 PROHIBITED methods of fishing. 55 
 
 DAMS, fishing near 54 
 
 TRANSPORTATION of game fish 82-83 
 
 TRANSPORTATION of fish by nonresidents S9, 82-83 
 
 TRANSPORTATION of fish by residents 82-83 
 
 POSSESSION of game fish 77 
 
 RUSH LAKE, fishing in 48 
 
 BLACK BASS cannot be sold 85 
 
 MUSKELLUNGE cannot be sold 85 
 
 TROUT cannot be sold (except lake trout) 85 
 
g Statb Conservation Commission. 
 
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 DOGFISH MINNOWS shipment alive prohib- 
 ited '. 84 
 
 CAJIP MINNOWS shipment alive prohibited 84 
 
 MISSISSIPPI RIVER, net and set line fishing. . 69 
 
 WINNEBAGO WATERS, net and set line fishing 73 
 
 ULKE MICHIGAN commercial fishing. 
 
 Nets, license fees, open and close season, 
 size of fish, possession and transportation of j 
 fish, reserve waters, fines and penalties, can- 
 cellation of license, tags 63-69 i 
 
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 LAKE SUPERIOR, commercial fishing 63-69 ' 
 
 (A) : 
 
 GREEN BAY, commercial fishing 63-69 
 
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 MINNOW NETS in outlying waters 62 i 
 
 GILL NETS for catching bloaters for bait 67 ' 
 
 CLAMMING LAWS 76 
 
 FROG LAW 48 
 
 ROUGH FISH removed by state 10:i 
 
 CRAWFISH LAW 48 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 9 
 
 General Index 
 
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 BOUNTIES, paid by state or county 96-lOi 
 
 CONSERVATION FUND 109-llU 
 
 CLAMMING laws 71 
 
 CANCELLATION OF LICENSES. 
 
 Crawfish ^8 
 
 DAMS, abandoned 25 
 
 DAMAGE by muskrats 93 
 
 By beaver S3 
 
 By deer 95 
 
 DOGS, in camps M 
 
 In field 54 
 
 DEFINITIONS of person 106 
 
 Of wild animal 23 
 
 Of hunting 24 
 
 Of public nuisances 24 
 
 FEDERAL LAWS 110 
 
 FROGS 48 
 
 GUIDES, as special wardens 52 
 
 INTER-STATE COMITY, (sbipi^ients) » 
 
 PENALTIES 104 
 
 POLICE POWERS of wardens 26 
 
 CONFISCATIONS, how disposed of 29 
 
 PRIVATE hatcheries and fish ponds S9 
 
 POISONED BAIT for wolves, wild cat and lynx 100 
 POWERS OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION 
 
 ( general ) 40 
 
 POWERS OF CONSERVATION COMMISSION 
 
 (to issue orders ^Taking change in law) 49 
 
 PUBLIC NUISANCES 24 
 
 REFUGE for game in Forest county 91 
 
 REFUGE for wild life may be established 91-93 
 
 REWARD to informers lOS 
 
 ROUGH FISH may be removed by state (waters 
 
 excepted ) 102 
 
 SCIENTISTS' CERTIFICATES, how issued 40 
 
 TITLE TO wild animals in the state 24 
 
 TRAPPING laws 38 
 
 UNLICENSED NETS or traps of any kind (de- 
 clared public nuisances and may be seized) 24-25 
 WARDENS, exemption from liability 29 
 
10 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 Penalties 
 
 Altering license. (Sec. 4562b) $500 to $1000 
 
 Counterfeiting state conservation 
 
 seal or tag. (Sec. 4562d) 200 to 500 
 
 Dynamite, use of. (Sec. 29.29-1) __ 200 to 500 
 
 False representation as conservation 
 
 warden. (Sec. 4562a) Not more than $100 
 
 False statement as to residence in 
 application for hunting licen-se. 
 (Sec. 4562c) • $500 to $1000 
 
 Gill nets in inland waters. (S3c. 
 
 29 63-a) , 200 to 500 
 
 Snag lines, use of. (Sec. 29.27-2) 100 to 200 
 
 Serving of venison, game birds, wild 
 animals, certain game fish, etc. 
 (Sec. 29.49-3) 200 to 50U 
 
 Free lunch consisting of venison, 
 game birds, wild animals, certain 
 game fish, etc. (Sec. 29.49-2-3) 200 to 500 
 
 Beaver law. (Sec. 29.59-6) 200 to 500 
 
 Removing or destroying state confis- 
 cation tags, or meddling or inter- 
 fering with any article, package, 
 box, barrel, fish, bird, animal or 
 carcass to which a state confisca- 
 tion seal or tag is attached. (Sec. 
 45.62d) 200 to 500 
 
 Taking fish from state hatchery 
 
 ponds. (Sec. 45.62e) 100 to 200 
 
 Taking fish from private state regis- 
 tered hatchery or fish pond with- 
 out consent of owner if lands are 
 properly posted. (Owner must 
 prosecute.) (Sec. 29.52_5) 15 to 25 
 
Statutes Relating to Wiijd Animals. 11 
 
 Traiisi)ortation. 
 
 Any violation of the transporta- 
 tion law $50 to $100 
 
 Agents shipping deer without 
 
 coupon. (Sec. 29.63) 50 to 100 
 
 Agents shipping deer out of state 
 on resident coupon. (Sec. 
 29.63) 50 to 100 
 
 Agents shipping game birds 50 to 100 
 
 Agents accepting shipments of 
 fish without first securing 
 the owner's signed certifi- 
 cate 50 to 100 
 
 Agents shipping game fish out of 
 state without necessary cou- 
 pon. (Sec. 29.14-2): 25 to 50 
 
 Lake Michigan, Lake Sui3erior» Green Bay 
 
 Any violation of the outlying 
 waters commercial fishing 
 
 laws. (Sec. 29.33-11) 300 to 500 
 
 Violation of any fish and game law 
 for which no specific penalty is 
 mentioned. (Sec. 29.63) 50 to lOO 
 
 In addition to these penalties if the violation was 
 under any license issued; the license shall be taken 
 up and no such license shall be issued to the per- 
 son convicted for a period of one year. (Sec. 
 29.63-3) . 
 
 Following is a list of state conservation Avardens, 
 Please advise your nearest warrlen cr the commis- 
 sion at Madison of any violations of the fish and 
 game laws of which you mfiy be aware. Such in- 
 icrmation will be held strictly confidential. 
 
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WISCONSIN STATUTES 1917 
 
 CHAPTER 29 
 
 Wild Animals, and the Reg^ulation of the Enjoy- 
 ment, Disposition and Conservation 
 Thereof 
 
 GENERAL CONTROL AND REGULATION 
 
 29.01 General definitions: 
 
 (1) Wild animal. 
 
 (2) Carcass. 
 
 (3) Game; game fish; rough fish. 
 
 (4) Waters classified. 
 
 (5) Hunting. 
 
 29.02 Title to wild animala. 
 
 29.03 Public nuisances. 
 
 29.04 Abandoned dams. 
 
 29.05 Police powers: searches; seizures. 
 
 ( 1 ) Arrests. 
 
 (2) Investigations. 
 
 (3) Search warrants. 
 
 (4) Opening packages. 
 
 (6) Access to storage places. 
 
 (6) Seizure and confiscation of game. 
 
 or game fish. 
 
 (7) Seizure and confiscation of property. 
 
 (8) Entire shipment affected. 
 
 (9) Exemption from liability. 
 
 29.06 
 
 Sales of confiscated game and apparatus. 
 
 29.07 
 
 Assistance of police officers. 
 
 29.08 
 
 Interstate comity. 
 
 
 GA.ME LICENSES 
 
 29.09 
 
 General provisions. 
 
 
 (1) License requisite. 
 
 
 (2) Form of application. 
 
 
 * ( 3 ) Form of license. 
 
 
 (4) Duplicates. 
 
 
 (5) Supply of blanks. 
 
 
 (6) Licenses iamied by coonty derlu. 
 
 
 (7) Return of fees by county clerks. 
 
 
 (t> Beoovd or iksexmtm iamed. 
 
18 State Consektation Commissiow. 
 
 29.10 Resident hunting- licenses, 
 
 29.11 Settlers' hunWng licenses. 
 
 29.12 Nonresident hunting license*. 
 
 29.13 Trapping licenses. 
 
 29.14 Hook and line fishing licenses. 
 
 29.15 Otiier licenses. 
 
 29.16 Interstate license privileges. 
 
 29.17 Certificates to scientists. 
 
 CLOSE SEASONS 
 
 29.18 Close seasons for wild mammals and birds. 
 
 29.19 Close seasons for hook and line fishing, 
 
 29.19 5 Close season in Rush lake. 
 
 29.20 Close seasons for crawfish and frogs. 
 
 CONSERVATION COMMISSION 
 2 9.21 Powers of commission. 
 
 METHODS OP HUNTING AND ITISHINO 
 
 29.22 General restrictions on hunting. 
 
 (1) Prohibited methods. 
 
 (2) Possession of ferrets. 
 
 (3) Guide licenses. 
 
 (4) Guides as special deputies. 
 
 29.23 Deer hunting. 
 
 (1) Prohibited methods. 
 
 (2) Dogs in camp. 
 
 29.24 Fur-bearing animals; methods of taking. 
 •29.25 Game birds; hunting. 
 
 (1) Prohibited methods. 
 
 (2) Open water defined. 
 
 (3) Live decoys. 
 
 (4) Use of dogs. 
 
 39.26 Prohibited fishing under particular condi- 
 tions. 
 29.37 Prohibited methods of fishing. 
 
 (1) Hook and line fishing: spearing 
 
 (2) Snag lines. 
 
 29.28 Ice fishing. 
 
 29.29 Noxious substances. 
 
 (1) Explosives: stupef active*. 
 
 (2) Medicated bait. 
 
 (3) Deleterious substances. 
 
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 FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 
 
 29.30 Fishing with nets and set lines. 
 
 (1) License required. 
 
 (2) Restrictions on use of nets. 
 
 29.31 Dip nets in inland waters. 
 
 29.32 Minnow nets. 
 
 (1) Use limited. 
 
 (2) Inland waters. 
 
 (3) Outlying- waters. 
 
 29.33 Net and set hook fishing in outlying waters. 
 
 (1) License authorized. 
 
 (2) Form of license. 
 
 (3) License period and fees. 
 
 (4) Metal tags. 
 
 (5) Reserve waters. 
 
 (6) Close seasons. 
 
 (7) Prohibited nets. 
 
 (8) Bass, muskellunge and sturgeon. 
 
 (9) Undersize fish. 
 
 (10) Possession, sale, and transportation. 
 
 (11) Penalty. 
 
 (12) Reports. 
 
 29.34 Net licenses; Mississippi river waters. 
 
 (1) License authorized. 
 
 (2) Bond. 
 
 (3) License period; nets specified. 
 
 (4) License fees. 
 
 (5) Metal tags. 
 
 ) (6) Protected fish. 
 
 (7) Reserve waters. 
 
 (8) Temporary ponds; shipments. 
 
 (9) Reports. 
 
 29.35 Net licenses; whitefish and Cisco in Inland 
 
 lakes. 
 
 29.36 Net licenses; rough fish in Winnebago waters. 
 
 29.37 Set line licenses; inland waters. 
 
 CLAMMING 
 
 29.38 Clamming licenses. 
 
 POSSESSION OF GAME 
 
 29.39 Possession during close season, or in excess 
 
 of bag limits. 
 
20 StATI COJNSKBTATXOir COMlCUiUCni. 
 
 29.40 Possession of deer. 
 
 (1) Deer tags. 
 
 (2) Home consumption. 
 
 (3) Heads and skins. 
 
 29.41 Skins of fur-bearing animals. 
 2 9.42 Possession of game birds. 
 
 (1) Without license. ^ 
 
 (2) Nests and eggs. " 
 
 TRANSPORTATION OP GAME 
 
 2 9.43 Transportation; general provisions. 
 
 (1) During close season. 
 
 (2) Trunks, valises. 
 
 (3) Transportation employes. 
 
 (4) Labeling game shipments. 
 
 29.44 Interstate transportation. 
 
 29.45 Transportation of deer. 
 
 29.46 Transportation of game birds. 
 
 29.47 Transportation of fish. 
 
 (1) Time limitation. 
 
 (2) From inland waters. 
 
 (3) From outlying waters. 
 
 (4) Shipments from inland points. 
 
 (5) Foreign shipments. 
 
 (6) Injurious fish minnows. 
 
 COMMERCE IN GAME 
 
 guests. 
 
 29.48 
 
 Sale of game. 
 
 29.49 
 
 Serving of game to 
 
 
 (1) Prohibited. 
 
 
 (2) Free lunch 
 
 
 (3) Penalty. 
 
 PROPAGATION OF WILD ANIMALS 
 
 29.50 Propagation privileged. 
 
 29.51 State propagation of fish. 
 
 (1) State fish hatcheries. 
 
 (2) Transplantation of fish 
 
 (3) Delivery of spawn. 
 
 (4) Removal of spawn or fish from state. 
 
 (5) Unlawful fishing by employes. 
 2 9.62 Private fish hatcheries. 
 
29.14 Stat« propar&tion ot wild mammato aad 
 
 birds. 
 
 29.55 Wild animals for parks. 
 
 29.56 Forest county gsijoae refuge 
 
 29.57 Wild life refuges. 
 
 (1) Establishment. 
 
 (2) Enclosure. 
 
 (3) Publication. 
 
 (4) Absolute protection. 
 
 (5) Aniraals procured by the commission. 
 
 DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMALS 
 
 29.58 Muskrats injuring dams. 
 
 29.59 Beaver causing- damage. 
 
 (1) Complaint. 
 
 (2) Supervision. 
 
 (3) Disposition of animals. 
 
 (4) Sale and disposition of proceeds. 
 
 (5) In Price, Rusk and Sawyer counties. 
 
 (6) Penalty. 
 29.595 Deer causing damage. 
 
 29.60 Bounties on wolves and fox. 
 
 (1) Rate of bounty. 
 
 (2) Presentation of claim. 
 
 (3) Examination of carcass. 
 
 (4) Payment by county and state. 
 
 (5) Poisoned baits for wolves, wildcats 
 
 and lynxes. 
 
 29.61 Destruction of other injurious animals; re- 
 
 wards. 
 
 29.62 Removal of injurious rough fish. 
 
 PENALTIES 
 
 29.63 General penalty provisions. 
 
 (1) Penalties. 
 
 (2) "Person" defined. 
 
 (3) Revocation of license. 
 
 (4) Construction of penalty provisions. 
 
 (5) Presumptions. 
 
 (6) Reward to iaformera. 
 
GENERAIi CONTROL AND REGITLATION 
 
 29.01 General Definitions. The following terms, 
 wherever used in this chapter, shall be construed 
 to apply as follows: 
 
 (1) Wild animal. "Wild animal" means any 
 mammal, bird, fish, or other creature of a wild na- 
 ture endowed with sensation and the power of vol- 
 untary motion. 
 
 (2) Carcass. "Carcass" means the dead body 
 of any wild animal to which it refers, including 
 the head, hair, skin, plumage, skeleton, or any 
 other part thereof. 
 
 (3) Game; game fish; rough fish. "Game** 
 includes all varieties of mammals or birds for 
 which, at any time of the year anywhere within 
 the state, a close season is prescribed in or pur- 
 suant to this chapter; "game fish" includes all va- 
 rieties of fish except rough fish; and, until the state 
 conservation commission otherwise determines 
 "rough fish" includes chubs, dace, suckers, carp, 
 red horse, sheephead, eelpout, dogfish, garfish, buf- 
 falo fish, and lawyers, in all waters, and pickerel 
 in lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Poygan, Big 
 Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, and In the 
 Fox river in Winnebago county. 
 
 (4) Waters classified. All waters within the 
 jnrisdiction of the state are classified as follows: 
 Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan and the harbors 
 and bays immediately connected therewith, Green 
 Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, and the Fox 
 river from ita mouth up to the dam at De Pere are 
 "outlying watenu** All other waters are "inland 
 
M STAn COKSSCTATIOF COMICUBSIMI. 
 
 (S) Hunting. "Hunt" or "hunting" includes 
 skooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching, 
 or killing of any wild animal or animals. 
 
 29.02 TiUe to Wild Animals. (1) The legal 
 title to, and the custody and protection of, all wild 
 animals within this state is vested in the state for 
 the purposes of regulating the enjoyment, use, dis- 
 position, and conservation thereof. 
 
 (2) The legal title to any such wild animal, 
 or carcass or part thereof, taken or reduced to pos- 
 session in violation of this chapter, remains in the 
 state; and the title to any such wild animal, or 
 carcass or part thereof, lawfully acquired, is sub- 
 ject to the condition that upon the violation of 
 any of the provisions of this chapter relating to the 
 possession, use, giving, sale, barter, or transporta- 
 tion of such wild animal, .or carcass or part thereof, 
 by the holder of such title, the same shall revert, 
 ipso facto, to the state. In either case, any such 
 wild animal, or carcass or part tk^-^of, may be 
 seized forthwith, wherever found, by the state con- 
 servation commission or its deputies. 
 
 29.03 Public Nuisances. The following are de- 
 clared public nuisances: 
 
 (1) Any unlicensed net of any kind, or other 
 unlicensed device, trap, or contrivance for fishing; 
 or any licensed net or other device, trap or con- 
 trivance for fishing set, placed, or found in any 
 waters where the same is prohibited to be used, or 
 in a manner prohibited by law. 
 
 (2) Any unlicensed set line, cable, rope, or 
 line, with more than one fish line attached thereto; 
 or any licensed set line set, placed, or found in any 
 waters where the same is prohibited to be used, or 
 hi a »a»Aor yroklkitod by Iaw; or aay tsk U»o loft 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild AmMAua. 25 
 
 in the water unattended, whether hayins one or 
 more hooks attached. 
 
 , (3) Any screen set in public waters to prevent 
 the free passage of fish, or set in any stream which 
 has been stocked by state authorities. 
 
 (4) Any building, enclosure, structure, or shel- 
 ter placed, occupied, or used on the ice of any wa- 
 ters in violation of this chapter. 
 
 C5) Any unlicensed trap, snare, spring gun, set 
 gun, net or other device or contrivance which might 
 entrap, ensnare, or kill game. 
 
 (6) Any boat, together with its machinery,, 
 sails, tackle and equipment, or any lamp, light, 
 pivot gun, swivel gun, or other firearm used in 
 violation of this chapter; or any boat, floating raft, 
 box, or blind set in open water and used in hunting 
 game birds. 
 
 (7) Any decoys set in any water during the 
 close season for water-fowl, or in excess of the 
 number authorized to be used, or more than two 
 hundred feet from the weeds, rushes, or other veg- 
 etation in which the hunter is concealed; and any 
 decoys left in the water unattended. 
 
 (8) Any dog found running deer at any time, 
 or used in violation of this chapter. 
 
 (9) Any ferret, rat, weasel, or guinea-pig in 
 possession or used while hunting. 
 
 29.04 (1) Abandoned Dams. The state con- 
 servation commission may remove or cause to be 
 removed, in such manner as they may deem fit, old 
 and abandoned dams in streams in the state of Wis- 
 consin, upon giving sixty days' notice in writing to 
 the owner thereof, if he can be found. If the 
 owner of such dam be unknown or cannot, by due 
 diligence, be found, the commission shall fublish 
 notice once eaQh week for four successire ireek& 
 
26 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 in some newspaper published in the county in which 
 such dam is situated. 
 
 (2) Whenever the conservation commission, 
 shall determine that the conservation of any species 
 or variety of wild animals will be promoted there- 
 by, the commission is authorized to maintain and 
 repair any dam located wholly upon lands the title 
 to which is in the state either as proprietor or in 
 trust for the people; subject, however, t© the 
 powers of the railroad commission to fix the level 
 an'd regulate th« flow of the public waters. 
 
 99.05 P©lic© Powers; Searches; Seizures. (1) 
 
 Arrests. The state conservation commission and 
 Its deputieii are hereby authorized to execute and 
 serve all warrants and processes issued by any jus- 
 tice of the peace or police magistrate or by any 
 eotirt having jurisdiction uHder any law relating 
 to wild animals, in the same manner as any con- 
 ifUible may serve and execute such process; and to 
 arrest, with or without a warrant, any person de- 
 tected in the actual violation, or whom such officer 
 has reasonable cause to believe guilty of the viola- 
 tion of any of the provisions of this chapter, oMd 
 to take such person before any court aad make 
 proper complaint. 
 
 (2) Investigations. Such officers shall, npoa 
 receiving notice or information that any provision 
 of this chapter has been violated, as soon as pos- 
 sible make a thorough investigation tkereof, a&d 
 cause proceedings to be InstitHted if the proofs at 
 hand warrant it. 
 
 (3) Search warrants. Upon complaint made to 
 any magistrate who has authority to issue warrants 
 in criminal cases, by any person that he knows or 
 has good reason to believe that any wild animal, or 
 carcass or part thereof, caught, taken, killed, or 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 27 
 
 had in possession contrary to the provisions of this 
 chapter, is concealed in any particular house or 
 place, the magistrate shall examine such complain- 
 ant on oath, reduce his complaint to writing, de- 
 scribing as particularly as may be the place where 
 said wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, is al- 
 leged to be concealed, and cause the same to be 
 subscribed by the person complaining. If it ap- 
 pears to the magistrate that there is reasonable 
 cause to believe that the facts alleged in said com- 
 plaint are true he shall immediately issue his war- 
 rant, reciting therein the substance of the com- 
 plaint and the description of the premises described 
 therein, and requiring the officer to whom it is di- 
 rected to forthwith search such premises and seize 
 any such wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
 and bring the same when found, and the person in 
 whose possession the same is found, before the 
 magistrate who issued the warrant, or before some 
 other magistrate or court having jurisdiction of the 
 case. The officer executing such warrant shall state 
 in his return, as particularly as may be, the prop- 
 erty seized, which shall be safely kept under the di- 
 rection of the court or magistrate so long as neces- 
 sary for the purpose of being used as evidence on 
 any trial; and if such trial results in a conviction, 
 the property so seized shall be confiscated. 
 
 (4) Opening packages. The state conserva- 
 tion commission and its deputies may examine and 
 open any packages in the possession of a common 
 carrier which they suspect or have reason to be- 
 lieve contains contraband wild animals, or car- 
 casses or parts thereof, or te falsely labeled in vio- 
 lation of the provisions of this chapter; and every 
 such common carrier, and every agent, servant, or 
 employe thereof, shall permit any such oflBcer to 
 examine and open aay sueh package. Any package 
 
SO opened shall be restored to its original condi- 
 tion. 
 
 (5) Access to storage places. They shall be 
 permitted by the owner or occupant of any cold 
 storage warehouse or buildings used for the storage 
 or retention of wild animals, or carcasses or parts 
 thereof, to enter and examine said premises; and 
 the said owner or occupant, or his agent, servant, 
 or employe, shall deliver to any such officer any 
 wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, in his pos- 
 session during the close season therefor, whether 
 taken within or without the state. 
 
 (6) Seizure and confiscation of game, or game 
 fish. They shall seize and confiscate in the name 
 of the state any wild animal, or carcass or part 
 thereof, caught, killed, taken, had in possession or 
 under control, sold or transported in violation of 
 this chapter; and any such officer may, with or 
 without warrant, open, enter and examine all build- 
 ings, camps, vessels or boats in inland or outlying 
 waters, wagons, automobiles or other vehicles, cars, 
 stages, tents, suit-cases, valises, packages, and 
 other receptacles and places where he has reason to 
 believe that wild animals, taken or held in viola- 
 tion of this chapter, are to be found; but no dwell- 
 ing house or sealed railroad cars shall be searched 
 for the above purposes without a warrant. 
 
 (7) Seizure and confiscation of property. They 
 shall seize and forthwith confiscate or destroy any 
 apparatus, appliance, or device declared by any pro- 
 vision of this chapter to be a public nuisance; and 
 shall seize and hold subject to the order of the 
 commission, any other apparatus, appliance, or any 
 vehicle, or device, which they shall have reason to 
 believe is being used in violation of this chapter, 
 and if it be proven that the same is, or has been 
 within six months previous to such seizure, used in 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 29 
 
 violatioiL of this chapter the same shall be confis- 
 cated. 
 
 (S) Entire shipment affected. Confiscation of 
 any part of a shipment under this section shall in- 
 cIb^ the entire shipment. 
 
 ^(S) Exemption from liability. Each commis- 
 sioner and each deputy conservation warden, in the 
 performance of his official duties, shall be exempt 
 from aay and all liability to any person for acrts 
 dene or permitted or property destroyed by author- 
 ity of law; and im any action brought against any 
 such commissioner or warden personally, arising 
 from alleged excess of his authority, the taxable 
 costs awarded t© either party shall include a rea- 
 8»»able attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court, pro- 
 yided the party has appeared therein by an attor- 
 ney of a court of record. 
 
 29.06 Sales of Confiscated Gam© and Apparatus, 
 
 (1) All confiscated wild animals, or carcasses or 
 parts thereof, and all confiscated apparatus, appli- 
 an(fes, or devices shall, if not destroyed as author- 
 ized by law, be sold at the highest price obtainable, 
 by the state conservation commission or its depu- 
 ties, or by an agent on commission under the writ- 
 ten authority and supervision of the state conser- 
 vation commission or its deputies. The net pro- 
 ceeds of such sales, after deducting the expense 
 of seizure and sale and any such commissions, shall 
 be promptly remitted by the warden by whom or 
 under whose authority and supervision the sales 
 are made, to the state conservation commission and 
 by it paid into the state treasury; the remittance 
 to be accompanied by a complete and certified re- 
 port of such sales, supported by proper vouchers 
 covering all deductions made for expenses and com- 
 
30 Statb Coi^sesvation Commission. 
 
 missions, t» be filed for record in the office of the 
 state conservation commission. 
 
 (2) On any such sales of wild animals, or car- 
 casses or parts thereof, the warden or agent selling 
 them shall issue to each purchaser a certificate, on 
 forms to b« prepared and furnished by the state 
 conseryatlon commission, covering such sales. The 
 animals, or carcasses or parts thereof, so purchase;; 
 shall be consumed or otherwise disposed of by the 
 purchaser within five days thereafter, but shall not 
 
 ^ resold, bartered, or exchanged, in whole or in 
 part, to any other person, except as provided in 
 suttsection (3). 
 
 (3) Confiscated fish or game sold to the keeper, 
 manager, or steward of any restaurant, club, hotel, 
 or boarding house may be served to the guests 
 thereof; bat in such case the certificate covering 
 the purchase shall be hung in public view £c *tie 
 place where the fish or game is served, and S'O^^ 
 fish or game shall at the time of sale be tagged 
 by the warden or agent selling it, such tag to show 
 the date of BSkle and be returned to said warden 
 or agent within five days thereafter. 
 
 29.07 Assistance of Police Officers. All sher- 
 iffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, and other police of- 
 ficers are ex officio deputy conservation wardens, 
 and shall assist the state conservation commission 
 and its deputies in the enforcement of this chapter 
 whenerer notice of a violation thereof is given to 
 either of them by the commission or its deputies. 
 
 29.98 Imterstate Comity. (1) Whenever and 
 so long as any other state confers upon the officers 
 of this stato reciprocal powers, any officer of such 
 other state, who is by the laws of said state au- 
 thorized or directed to enforce the laws of said 
 state relating to the protection of wild animals, is 
 hereby designated an agent of said state within 
 
Statutes Rexating to Wiid Animals. 31 
 
 this state. It shall be lawful for said officer to fol- 
 low any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof un- 
 lawfully shipped or taken from his state into this 
 state, seize and convey the same back to his own 
 state; and so far as concerns any such wild animal, 
 or carcass or part thereof, the laws of the state 
 from which the same was brought into this state 
 are hereby adopted as the laws of this state. Trans- 
 portation companies shall deliver to such officer, 
 upon submission of proper proof of his official ca- 
 pacity, any wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, 
 so demanded or seized by him. , Said officer may 
 dispose of any such wild animal, or carcass or 
 part thereof, within this state, in accordance with 
 the laws of the state from which the same was 
 taken or shipped, under the supervision of any con- 
 servation commissioner or deputy conservation war- 
 den of this state, whose expenses for his assistance 
 shall be a lien upon such wild animal or carcass 
 or part thereof, or the proceeds thereof. 
 
 (2) Except as provided in subsection (1), the 
 state conservation commission or its deputies shall 
 seize, hold and dispose, according to the laws of 
 this state, of any wild animal, or carcass or part 
 thereof, brought or shipped into or through this 
 state, or attempted to be carried through this state, 
 in violation of the laws of any other state. 
 
 (3) The state game warden of every mher 
 state, and his deputies and all other officers therein 
 charged with the enforcement of the laws relating 
 to wild animals are hereby designated agents of 
 this state for the taking possession, seizing, holding 
 and disposing, within such state, of any wild ani- 
 mal, or carcass or part thereof, protected by the 
 laws of this state. 
 
32 State Conskcvation Commission. 
 
 (4) Whenever and so long as any other state 
 confers upon the oflacers of this state reciprocal 
 powers, the state conservation commission is here- 
 by authorized to appoint persons who shall have 
 been appointed game wardens or deputy game war- 
 dens of such other state to act as and have »11 
 the powers of deputy conservation wardens of tkia 
 state, but without eempensatton from this state. 
 
KEEP THE FORESTS GREENI 
 
 DONT BUILD BONFIRES! 
 
 DID YOU PUT YOUR CAMP 
 FIRE OUT? 
 
 PREVENT FOREST FIRES4 
 
'34 •CAOI COJETSSETAHOH COMMISSION. 
 
 GAME IJ[C£:NS£S 
 
 29.^9 Geottral ProvisiojaL*. (1) Hunting, tra]^- 
 ping or fishiiic without a license prohibited. Ex- 
 cept as expressly provided, no person shall hunt, 
 trap or fish any game or game fish unless a license 
 therefor has been duly issued to him which shall 
 be carried on his person at the time and shall be 
 exhibited to the state conservation commission or 
 its deputies on demand. Such licenses shall be is- 
 sued only to persons, and not more than one of the 
 same series to the same person in any year. No 
 licensee shall transfer his license or deer tag to ©r 
 permit the use thereof by any other person, nor 
 shall any person while hunting, trapping or fishing 
 use or carry any license, or guide's badge, issued to 
 another. No hunting license shall be issued to any 
 person who is less than fifteen years of age; nor 
 to any person who is not a citizen of the United 
 States, except as provided in section 29.11. In- 
 dians hunting, fishing or trapping off Indian reser- 
 vation lands are subject to all provisions of this 
 chapter. 
 
 (2) Form of application. The application for 
 such license shall state the residence and post-office 
 address of the applicant, a description of his per- 
 son, and such other facts, showing him to be en- 
 titled to the license for which he applies, as may 
 be required by the commission, and shall be ver- 
 ified by the affidavit of the applicant; but no writ- 
 ten or verified application shall be required for any 
 hook and line fishing license. Each such applica- 
 tion shall be accompanied by the license fee pre- 
 scribed for the license applied for. 
 
 (3) Form of license. Each license shaU state 
 for what year the same is issued and the date of ex- 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 35 
 
 jpiration, and except as otherwise provided shall be 
 effective only from the first day of May until the 
 next succeeding thirtieth day of April, subject to 
 the conditions, limitations and restrictions pre- 
 scribed in this chapter. Each license issued shall 
 further state the name and residence of the li- 
 censee, a description of his person, and such other 
 matter as may be determined by the commission; 
 shall bear upon its face a true signature of the 
 licensee; and shall be signed by the officer who is- 
 sues it. 
 
 (4) duplicates. Whenever any such license i? 
 lost the person to whom the same was issued may 
 present to the commission an affidavit proving such 
 
 ,loss, together with a fee of fifty cents, whereupon 
 '' the latter shall issue a duplicate license to such 
 person. 
 
 (5) Supply of blanks. The commission shall 
 prepare, procure the printing of, and supply all 
 necessary blanks for such licenses and applications. 
 The licenses shall be numbered consecutively, at 
 the time of printing, in a separate series for eacfe 
 kfnd of license; and each license blank shall be 
 provided with a corresponding stub numbered with 
 the serial number of the license. Each requisition 
 for the printing of such license blanks shall specify 
 the serial numbers thereof. 
 
 (6) Licenses issued by county clerk. Of each 
 license issued by a county clerk he shall retain the 
 stub for record in his office. He shall also keep 
 an alphabetical index of the names of all persons 
 to whom he issues licenses, such names to be en- 
 tered therein at the time the licenses are issued. 
 The State conserration commission or its deputies 
 may at any time examine such records. 
 
 (7) Return of fees by county clerk. Of the 
 fees paid for such licenses the county clerk may 
 
31 Statb Conservation Commission. 
 
 retain ten per cent as compensation for his serv- 
 ices to the state; the remainder he shall return to 
 the state conservation commission on the first day 
 of each month, with a report of the number of li- 
 censes issued by him during the preceding month 
 and the amount of money thus remitted. All stubs 
 of licenses issued and all unused license blanks 
 shall be returned by the county clerk to the com- 
 mission at the close of the year for which they are 
 supplied. 
 
 (8) Record of licenses issued. A complete rec- 
 ord of all licenses issued shall be kept by the com- i 
 mission, which shall also be accountable for all un- i 
 used license blanks. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.10 Resident Hunting Licenses. Resident 
 hunting licenses shall be issued subject to the pro- 
 visions of section 29.09, by the county clerks of 
 the several counties upon blanks supplied to them 
 by the state conservation commission, to residents 
 of each such county duly applying therefor who 
 have resided in this state for at least one year next 
 preceding the application. The fee for each such 
 license is one dollar. Such license does not grant 
 the privilege of hunting deer unless the licensee is 
 in possession of a deer tag numbered to correspond 
 with his license, which shall be issued to him by 
 the state conservation commission on application 
 and the payment of an additional fee of ten cents. 
 The commission may cause such tags to be issued 
 through agents, but no commission to be allowed 
 for the sale of such tags. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 
 
 29.11 Scrttflers' Hunting Licenses. Settlers' 
 hunting licenses subject to the provisions of section 
 29.09 may be issued by the state conservation com- 
 mission in its discretion, to actual settlers in thii 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 37 
 
 state duly applying therefor who have resided in 
 this state less than one year next preceding the 
 application. A bona fide settler shall be a person 
 who has either purchased or rented, or has nego- 
 tiations in progress to purchase or rent residence 
 property in Wisconsin and who has moved to and 
 settled in this state. Such licenses shall be in sub- 
 stantially the same form, subject to the same con- 
 ditions and restrictions, and entitle the holder to 
 the same rights, privileges and immunities as a 
 resident hunting license. No nonresident hunting 
 license shall be issued in the same year to any per- 
 son to whom a settlers' hunting license has been 
 issued, and no settlers' hunting license to any 
 holder of a nonresident hunting license. (Penalty 
 $50-$100.) 
 
 29.12 Nonresident Hunting L/icenses. (1) 
 
 Nonresident hunting licenses shall be either general 
 or limited, and shall be issued by the state conser- 
 vation commission, subject to the provisions of sec- 
 tion 29.09, to persons duly applying therefor who 
 are not residents of this state or who have resided 
 therein less than one year next preceding the appli- 
 cation. The fee for each such general license is 
 fifty dollars, and for each such limited license 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 (2) Each such general license shall extend to 
 the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
 season therefor, respectively, and shall be accom- 
 panied by a deer tag, numbered to correspond with 
 the license and to be supplied without additional 
 fee, 
 
 (3) Each such limited license shall extend to 
 the hunting of all wild animals during the open 
 season therefor, respectively, except deer. The 
 holder of ftueh limited license may at any time be- 
 
38 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 tore its expiration surrender the same for cancella- 
 tion, and in lieu thereof, upon payment of an ad- 
 ditional fee of twenty-five dollars, the commission 
 shall issue to him a general license as prescribed 
 in subsection (2). (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.13 Trai)ping Licenses. (1) Trapping 11- 
 "Censes, which shall authorize the use of traps for 
 trapping fishers, martens, minks, muskrats, rac- 
 coons, and skunks, shall be issued by the state con- 
 servation commission, subject to the provisions of 
 section 29.09, to persons duly applying therefor who 
 have resided in this state for at least one year next 
 preceding the application. The fee for each such 
 license is one dollar. 
 
 (2) All shipments of hides must be marked 
 showing the number and kinds of hides in the 
 package, the name and address of the shipper, and 
 the number of his trapping license. 
 
 (3) On or before June first next after the ex- 
 piration of his license, such licensee shall report to 
 the state conservation commission, by affidavit, on 
 blanks furnished by the commission, the number 
 of his license, the number and value of each variety 
 of animals taken, and such other information as 
 may be required on the blanks furnished. (Pen- 
 alty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.14 Hook and Line Fishing Licenses. (1) 
 
 Any person, other than nonresident males over the 
 age of sixteen years, may without a license take, 
 catch or kill with hook and line fish of any variety, 
 subject to all other conditions, limitations and re- 
 strictions prescribed in this chapter. 
 
 (2) Any male nonresident over the age of six- 
 teen years shall have the rights of a resident to 
 take, catch or kill fisTi of any variety with hook 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 39 
 
 and line in outlying waters; but not in inland wa- 
 ters unless a license has been duly issued to him, 
 subject to the provisions of section 29.09 by the 
 state conservation commission. Each such license 
 shall be provided with three coupons each of which 
 shall entitle the licensee to make one shipment of 
 game fish as provided in section 29.47, but no more 
 One coupon shall be attached to each shipment so 
 made. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 The agent of any common carrier who shall ac- 
 cept any such shipment without a coupon attached 
 shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter and 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty- 
 five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. The fee 
 for each such license is one dollar. Thp com mi p- 
 sion may cause such licenses to be issued through 
 agents for a compensation of ten per cent of the 
 license fees collected therefor; but no such com- 
 pensation shall be paid to any of its regular depu- 
 ties or other employes. 
 
 29.15 Other Licenses. Guiding licenses, net 
 and set line licenses, and clamming licenses, shall 
 be issued by the state conservation commission as 
 provided in subsection (3) of section 29.22 and sec- 
 tions 29.33, 29.34, 29.35, 29.36, 29.37 and 29.38, 
 respectirely. 
 
 29.16 Interstate License Privileges. Whenever 
 and so long as the states of Minnesota or Iowa 
 confer upon the licensees of this state reciprocal 
 rights, privileges and immunities, any hook and 
 line or other fishing license, or clamming license 
 issued by such other state shall entitle the licensee 
 to all the rights, privileges and immunities, in ana 
 upon the boundary waters between such state and 
 this state, enjoyed by the nolders of equivalent li- 
 
40 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 censes issued by this state; subject, however, to 
 the duties, responsibilities and liabilities imposed 
 on its own licensees by the laws of this state. 
 
 29.17 Certificates to Scientists. (1) The state 
 conservation commission may grant, on satisfac- 
 tory testimonials of well-known scientists only, a 
 certificate to any member of an incorporated so- 
 ciety of natural history, or to any professor of any 
 university, school or college, or to any person 
 properly accredited by any such institution, or to 
 any custodian of a public museum, authorizing such 
 person or institution to collect for scientific pur- 
 poses only, any nests, eggs, or wild animals, ex- 
 cept deer. Such specimens may be transported by 
 any common carrier; but no person to whom such 
 cetificate is issued shall dispose of any such speci- 
 men except in exchange for scientific purposes. All 
 such certificates shall expire on the first day of Jan- 
 uary following the date of their issue, and shall 
 not be transferable. 
 
 (2) The application for such certificate shall 
 be made upon blanks to be furnished by the state 
 conservation commission, shall be accompanied by 
 a fee of two dollars, and the applicant shall exe- 
 cute and deliver to the state conservation commis- 
 sion a bond running to the state of Wisconsin, in 
 the sum of one hundred dollars, with two sureties, 
 and conditioned that if the applicant shall well 
 and faithfully observe and comply with all the re- 
 quirements of this section, and the certificate issued 
 thereunder, said obligation to be null and void, 
 otherwise to remain in full force. Each said surety 
 shall be worth and qualify in at least the sum of 
 one hundred dollars, over and above all his debts 
 nnd liabilities, in property within this state not ex- 
 empt from sale on execution. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 41 
 
 (3) The certificate of any person convicted of 
 a violation of this section shall be forfeited and re- 
 voked, and such convicted person shall not be en- 
 titled to another certificate for the period of one 
 year from and after the date of such conviction. 
 
 CLOSE SEASONS 
 
 29.18 Close Seasons for Wild Manunals and 
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 year except the period embraced within the dates, 
 both inclusive, set opposite the name of each va- 
 riety or each locality, respectively, in the column 
 headed "Open Season*^'; and, except as expressly 
 provided in this chapter, no persons shall hunt or 
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 other than the open season therefor, nor in the 
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 opposite each variety or each locality, respectively, 
 in the column headed "Bag Limit," nor wild birds 
 of more than one variety except a mixed bag limit 
 of twenty each day in the open season, but con- 
 taining not more than the bag limit of any one 
 variety. Wild ducks and American coots or mud- 
 hens shall be deemed, collectively, as one variety: 
 
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 INLAND WATERS 
 
 2d. 19 Close Seasons for Hook and Line Fishing. 
 
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 There shall be no close season for hook and line 
 fishing, except for large and small mouthed black 
 bass, sturgeon and trout, in any of the following 
 described waters: In the waters of Juneau, Lafay- 
 ette, and Green counties, except in the Wisconsin 
 river between Juneau and Adams in the waters of 
 lakes Winnebago in Fond du Lac, Calumet and 
 Winnebago counties, in Buffalo lake, Marquette 
 county, in Puckaway lake iti Marquette and Green 
 Lake counties, in Lake Poygan in Winnebago and 
 Waushara counties in lakes Winneconne, Big and 
 Little Butte des Morts in Winnebago county, in the 
 Pox river in Marquette, Green Lake, Waushara and ■ 
 Winnebago counties, in the Wolf river in Winne- 
 bago county and in Waupaca county as far as the 
 city limits of New London, in the Rock and Craw- 
 fish rivers and Lake Koshkonong in Rock, Jefferson 
 and Dodge counties. During the period from March 
 1 to May 28, both dates inclusive, live or dead min- 
 nows shall not be used for bait in any of the above 
 waters specified in Jefferson county. The open 
 season for hook and line fishing in the waters of 
 the Mississippi river, except for large and small 
 r^TOuthed black bass, shall open on May 1. 
 
 29.195 There shall be no closed season except 
 from the first day of March to the succeeding twen- 
 tieth day of May for any fish, except trout, in Rush 
 lake or in the streams flowing into said lake, situate 
 in Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties, and fish 
 therein may be taken in any manner, except with 
 explosives, during the open season, except trout; 
 provided, that no person shall have more than fifty 
 pounds of such fish, taken from said Rush lake or 
 said streams flowing into said lake, in his posses- 
 sion or under his control in any one day. 
 
 29.20 Close Season for Cra^^'f^sh and Frogs. 
 No person shall take, catch, or kill, in any waters 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 49 
 
 of this state, or have in possession, any crawfish 
 or crab of any variety between the first day of 
 March and the next succeeding first day of July; 
 or any frog from March 1 to May 1 of each year; 
 but nothing in this section shall prevent any per- 
 son from having frogs in his possession who is in 
 the business of propagating frogs, or where the 
 same are used for scientific or educational purposes. 
 (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 CONSERVATION CO>OIISSIO.N 
 
 29.21 Powers of Commission. (1) The state 
 conservation commission shall have power to issue 
 orders determining in v/hat manner, in what num- 
 bers, in what places and at what times the taking, 
 catching, or killing of wild animals shall be incon- 
 sistent with the proper protection, propagation and 
 conservation of fish, birds or mammals protected 
 by law in this state, and the perpetuation of wild 
 life. No such order providing protection or ad- 
 ditional protection to any such wild animals shall 
 be issued except upon petition filed with said com- 
 missioners, and after hearing thereon as herein- 
 after provided. 
 
 (2) Ten or more persons of any township or 
 twenty-five or more persons of any county, may file 
 with the state conservation commission a petition 
 signed with their names and addresses, requesting 
 the granting of protection or additional protection 
 within such county, to one or more species of wild 
 animals designated in said petition. And such peti- 
 tion shall state the extent such protection or ad- 
 ditional protection is desired and the grounds there- 
 for. If after hearing the petitioners, the conserva- 
 tion commission shall determine to entertain the 
 petition it shall order a public hearing to be held 
 thereon within the town or county described in the 
 petition, within twenty days from the filing of said 
 
60 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 petition. At least ten days prior to such public 
 hearing notice thereof containing a brief statement 
 of the grounds upon which application is made 
 therefor^ and the time and place of hearing shall 
 be published in a newspaper having a general cir- 
 culation in the district to be affected, and a copy 
 of such notice shall be mailed to each petitioner, at 
 the address given in the petition. 
 
 (3) If upon such hearing the conservation com- 
 mission find and determine that the protection or 
 additional protection requested, is necessary for 
 the proper protection, propagation and conserva- 
 tion of the designated wild animals within the des- 
 ignated territory, the commission shall issue an or- 
 der prohibiting or regulating during the open sea- 
 son therefor, the taking of any or all species of 
 jSsh, birds or mammals within such territory. At 
 least thirty days before the date fixed for such or- 
 der to take effect, copies of the same should be 
 iled in the office of the clerk for each county con- 
 taining a district or any part of a district in which 
 such order or regulation shall apply, and cause 
 the same to be published in a newspaper having 
 general circulation in the town, county or district 
 in which such regulations shall apply, or to cause 
 the same to be published by means of at least five 
 large notices posted in or near public buildings or 
 on the highways within said territory, and when 
 the territory affected is less than a township in 
 area, in conspicuous places on the boundaries 
 thereof. 
 
 (4) Any order issued by the state conservation 
 commission pursuant to this section shall have the 
 force of law, and the penalties prescribed for viola- 
 tions of the provisions of this chapter shall follow 
 and be applicable to violations of any such order, 
 to the same effect and extent, respectively, as 
 though such order had been enacted a part of this 
 chanter. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 61 
 
 METHODS OF HUNTING AND PISHING 
 
 29.22 General Bestrictions on Hunting. (1) 
 
 Prohibited methods. No person shall hunt game 
 with any means other than the use of a ffun held at 
 arm's length and discharged from the shoulder; 
 or place, spread or set any net, pitfall, snare, spring 
 gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other similar con- 
 trivance for the purpose of catching, or which might 
 catch, take or ensnare game; or use or have in his 
 possession or under his control any ferret, rat, 
 weasel, or guinea pig while hunting; and no per- 
 son shall carry with him in any vehicle, any gun 
 or rifle unless the same is unloaded, an-d knocked 
 down or enclosed within a carrying case. No per- 
 son while hunting or in possession of firearms shall 
 have in possession or under control any light used 
 for the purpose of shining deer. 
 
 (2) Possession of ferrets. No person shall 
 have In his possession or under his control at any 
 time any ferret unless a permit therefor has been 
 issued to him by the state conservation commis- 
 sion; but such permit shall not authorise the use 
 of any ferret for hunting game except in Door 
 county. 
 
 (3) Guide licenses. No person shall engage, 
 or be employed, for any compensation or reward, 
 to guide, direct, or assist any other person in hunt- 
 ing, trapping, or fishing unless a license therefor, 
 subject to the provisions of section 29.09, has been 
 duly issued to him by the state conservation com- 
 mission. The fee for each such license is one dol- 
 lar. The applicant shall deliver to the state con- 
 servation commission a bond running to the state 
 of Wisconsin, in the sum of. two hundred dollars, 
 with two sureties, and conditioned that if the ap- 
 
52 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 plicant shall well and faithfully observe and com- 
 ply with all the requirements of this chapter, and 
 the guide license issued thereunder, said obligation 
 shall be null and void, otherwise to remain in full 
 force. But this subsection does not apply to the 
 employment of labor by, or services rendered to, 
 the licensee of any net fishing license. (Penalty 
 $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 (4) Guides as special deputies. Each licensed 
 guid'3 may be a special deputy conservation warden, 
 appointed by the commission and shall execute the 
 same oath of office and bond as required by regu- 
 larly salaried wardens. Licensed guides may be 
 employed for temporary service as a regular deputy 
 conservation warden, for any period not exceeding 
 fifty days in any one year, at a compensation to be 
 fixed by the commission. 
 
 29.23 Deer Hunting. (1) Prohibited meth- 
 ods. No person shall hunt deer between one hour 
 after sunset and one hour before sunrise, of the 
 following morning; or in the water or on the ice 
 of any stream, lake, or pond; or with a dog or 
 dogs; or v/ith the aid of artificial light; nor place 
 any salt in any place for the purpose of enticing 
 deer thereto, or construct, occupy, or use any ele- 
 vated scaffold or other device for the purpose of 
 hunting, watching for, or killing deer. 
 
 (2) Dogs in camps. During the period from 
 November 10 to December 10, in the couTit'e'^- wher*^ 
 there is an open season for deer, no person shall 
 hunt any wild animal with a dog or dogs; nor have 
 a dog or dogs in his possession or under his con- 
 trol in or about a hunting or logging camp, unless 
 a permit therefor has been issued to him by the 
 state conservation commission. (Penalty $5 0.00- 
 $100.00.) 
 
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 29.24 Fur-Bearing Animals; Methods of Tak- 
 ing. (1) No person shall hunt any fisher, mar- 
 ten, mink, or muskrat with the aid of any spear, 
 gun, or dog, disturb or molest any raccoon den or 
 tree for the purpose of capturing the raccoons, or 
 any muskrat house, beaver house or beaver dam; 
 or set any trap or traps at any time within five 
 hundred feet of any beaver house or beaver dam. 
 
 (2) The owner or occupant of any land, and 
 any member of his family may without license hunt 
 thereon rabbits at any time, and squirrels during 
 the open season therefor. 
 
 (3) Except as provided in subsection (2), no 
 person shall have in his possession or under liis 
 control, or use, for hunting rabbits, any ferret, 
 snare, trap, or any device or contrivance designed 
 or used for the purpose of driving rabbits out of 
 their holes or dens. The owner or occupant or 
 any person upon written request of the owner or 
 occupant of any land in the county of Door may 
 use a ferret thereon for hiinting rabbits. (Penalty 
 $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.25 Game Birds; Hunting. (1) Prohibited 
 methods. No person shall hunt any game bird 
 between sunset and thirty minutes before sunrise 
 of the following morning; or by shooting it or at 
 it from any boat, canoe, raft, blind, contrivance or 
 device in open water, or from any boat or craft 
 other than such as are propelled by paddle, oars, 
 or pole or with the use of more than fifty decoys 
 within, or any decoys beyond, two hundred feet 
 from the blind or covering in which the hunter is 
 located, or with any decoys left in the water unat- 
 tended; or any game bird other than wild geese 
 and brant with the use of a rifle. 
 
 (2) Open water defined. Open water is any 
 
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 water outside or beyond a natural growth of veg- 
 etation extending over the water surface, and of 
 such height as to offer partial or whole conceal- 
 ment for the hunter. 
 
 (3) Live decoys. The set of twenty-five de- 
 coys allowed for each hunter used on the water in 
 hunting game birds may include not more than 
 five live decoys; but each such live decoy so used 
 shall be provided with a registration tag, which 
 shall be issued by the state conservation commis- 
 sion to any holder of a hunting license on payment 
 of a fee of ten cents for each tag. 
 
 (4) Use of dogs. No person carrying or be- 
 ing in possession of a gun shall run or use a dog 
 or dogs in the field, or upon lands frequented by 
 game birds or upon which game birds may be found, 
 between the first day of August and the seventh 
 day of September in each year. (Penalty $50.00 — 
 
 noo.eo.) 
 
 29.26 Prohibited Fishing Under Particular Con- 
 ditions. No person shall take, capture, or kill fish 
 of any variety, during the close season for trout, 
 in streams and creeks containing trout; or at any 
 time in or from any spring hole or artificial well 
 connected with any of the waters of this state; or 
 l>y means of shutting or drawing off water for that 
 purpose; nor shall any person take, capture or kill 
 fish within two hundred feet of any fishway, lock 
 or dam otherwise than with a hook and line. No 
 fish of any variety shall be taken in any manner 
 within five hundred feet below any fishway, lock 
 or dam in the counties of Burnett, Washburn, Saw- 
 yer, Oneida, Florence, Vilas, Iron, Ashland, Bay- 
 field, Douglas, and north of townships number 35 
 in Price and Forest counties, and within three hun- 
 dred feet above and five hundred feet below the 
 dam at Kilbourn on the Wisconsin river. No per- 
 
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 son shall take or catch fish from a boat or float 
 in Elites pond on the Big Rush O'Cree creek in the 
 town of Plainfield, Waushara county. (Penalty 
 $50.00-$lG0.00.) 
 
 29.27 Prohibited Methods of Fishing. (1) 
 
 Hook and line fishing; spearing. No person shall 
 take, catch, kill, or fish for fish of any variety with 
 more than three lines, or with any line equipped 
 with more than two hooks or one trolling spoon or 
 artificial bait, or with more than such number of 
 lines and hooks left in the water unattended, un- 
 less a license for a set line shall be procured there- 
 for; or any game fish by any means other than 
 angling or trolling, except as provided in subsec- 
 tion (2) of section 29.28 and section 29.30; nor 
 shall any person use a spear for the purpose of 
 taking, catching or killing any rough fish at any 
 time in nonnavigable waters containing trout, or 
 during the close season for trout in navigable wa- 
 ters containing trout, or at any time in Lake Ma- 
 son, commonly known as Briggsville pond, or the 
 inlet, outlet or marshes adjacent to the same, or In 
 Pine lake, in the town of tiancock, and Fish lake, 
 in the towns of Hancock and Deerfield, Waushara 
 county, or in the Chain of Lakes, Mirror or Shadow 
 lakes, in the towns of Farmington, Dayton, Wau- 
 paca, and the city of Waupaca, Waupaca county, 
 or in Devil's lake, Sauk county, or in the waters 
 known as Koenig's millpond, situated in sections 
 seven, eight, seventeen and eighteen of tovv^nship 
 nine north, of range six east, town of Prairie du 
 Sac, or in the nighttime in any other inland waters. 
 (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 (2) Snag lines. No person shall set, place, 
 use, have, or control any snag line or snag pole, 
 meaning any line, cable, or pole to which a number 
 
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 or fishhooks or clusters of fishhooks of any kind 
 or description are attached, and designated to be 
 placed in or drawn through the water for the pur- 
 pose of catcTiing or drawing such hooks into the 
 body of fish. Violations of this subsection shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred 
 nor more than two hundred dollars, or by impris- 
 onment in the county jail not less than six months 
 nor more than nine months, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. 
 
 29.28 Ice Fishing. (1) No person shall take, 
 catch, or kill fish of any variety through the ice on 
 Silver lake, situated within the city limits of Port- 
 age, Columbia county; Pine lake, town of Han- 
 cock, and Pish lake, towns of Hancock and Deer- 
 field, and the millpond in the village of Wautoma, 
 Waushara county; Lake Nocquebay in Marinette 
 county; Lake Mason, commonly known as Briggs- 
 ville pond, in the counties of Adams and Marquette; 
 Shell lake, Washburn county; Chain of Lakes in 
 townships thirty-seven and thirty-eight north, of 
 range twelve west, in Washburn county; Spring 
 lake and the upper mill lake in the village and 
 town bl Palmyra, Jefferson county; Big Slough in 
 Lewiston, Columbia county; Devil's lake and Hears 
 lake and tributary streams; the waters known as 
 Koenig's millpond, in sections seven, eight, seven- 
 teen and eighteen of township nine north, of range 
 six east, town of Prairie du Sac, and Mirror lake, in 
 Sauk county; Twin lakes, in the town of Lincoln, 
 Pol^ county; any lake in the counties of Langlade, 
 Portage, Marquette, except in Buffalo lake, and 
 Shawano. The bag limit for cisco in any lake in 
 Waukesha county shall be twenty-five each day, 
 except in Pine lake where there shall be no bag 
 limit. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 (2) Speats may be used for spearing pickerel 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 67 
 
 through the ice of the Mississippi river. Lake Pepin, 
 Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous and 
 sloughs tributary thereto and connected therewith. 
 
 (3) Fish shanties or shelters may be used on 
 the ice of the Mississippi river, Lake Geneva in Wal- 
 worth county, Lakes Winnebago, Winneconne, Big 
 and Little Butte des Morts and Poygan; Beaver 
 Dam lake; the Fox river in Brown county; the 
 Oconto river within the limits of the city of Oconto; 
 all lakes in Waukesha county, except Phantom 
 and Hewitt's lakes; and where there is not less 
 than fifty feet of water in Big Green lake. Wind 
 shields may be used on the ice of Mendota, Mo- 
 nona, Waubesa and Kegonsa lakes in Dane county. 
 
 29.29 Noxious Substances. (1) Explosives; 
 stupefactives. No person shall take, capture or kill 
 fish of any variety in any waters of this state by 
 means of dynamite or other explosives or poisonous 
 or stupefying substances; or place in any waters 
 of this state explosives which might cause the de- 
 struction of fish, except for the purpose of raising 
 dead bodies whenever ordered by the public au- 
 thorities, or for the purpose of clearing a channel 
 or breaking a log jam; or have in his possession 
 or under his control, upon any inland waters, any 
 dynamite or other explosives for the purpose of 
 taking, catching or killing fish. Violations of this 
 subsection shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than two hundred nor more than five hundred dol- 
 lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
 than nine months nor more than one year, or •by 
 both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 (2) Medicated bait. No person shall use, set, 
 lay or prepare in any of the waters of this state 
 any lime, poison, medicated bait, fish berries, or 
 any other substance deleterious to fish life or 
 which might attract fish in unusual numbers; but 
 
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 the feeding of cisco with oatmeal for the purpose 
 of catching such fish with hook and line through 
 the ice is lawful. 
 
 (3) Deleterious substances. No person shall 
 cast, deposit, or throw overboard from any boat, 
 vessel or other craft into any waters within the 
 jurisdiction of the state, or deposit or leave upon 
 the ice thereof until it melts, any fish offal; or 
 throw or deposit, or permit to be thrown or de- 
 posited, into any waters within the jurisdiction of 
 the state any lime, tanbark, ship ballast, stone, 
 sand slabs, decayed wood, sawdust, sawmill ref- 
 use, planing mill shavings, or any acids, or chem- 
 icals or waste or refuse arising from the manu- 
 facture of any article of commerce, or any other 
 substance deleterious to fish life other than auth- 
 orized drainage and sewage from municipalities. 
 (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 
 
ONE TREE 
 
 Will Make a Million Matches 
 
 ONE MATCH 
 
 Will Destroy a Million Trees 
 
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 FISHING WITH NETS AND SET LINES 
 
 29.30 Fishing with Nets and Set Lines. (1) 
 
 License required. Nets and set lines may be used 
 for the purpose of taking, catching, or killing 
 rough fish and game fish, subject to the conditions, 
 limitations and restrictions prescribed in this chap- 
 ter; but no person shall set, place or use in any wa- 
 ters of this state any net, trap, snare, set hook, or 
 set line, which is intended to or might take, catch 
 or kill fish of any variety, other than a landing 
 net, dip net, minnow seine or minnow dip net, 
 unless a license therefor has been duly issued 
 to such person. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00. Pen- 
 alty use of gill nets $200.00 — $500.00. Penalty 
 use of any net for trout $200.00 — $500.00.) 
 
 (2) Restrictions on the use of licensed nets 
 and set lines. The use of licensed nets and set 
 lines is subject, further, to the following condi- 
 tions: 
 
 (a) No apron or other device shall be used 
 in any pound net, which might prevent the escape 
 of small fish through the meshes of the net when 
 it is set or raised. 
 
 (b) No net of any kind shall be set so as to 
 shut off more than one-half of any channel or 
 passageway of any stream, or set within one 
 thousand feet of any other net in said stream. 
 
 (c) No licensee shall join his net to that of any 
 other licensee. 
 
 (d) At each end of every licensed net or set 
 line, when set in any waters, shall be placed and 
 maintained a white flag of not less than sixteen 
 inches square, with the upper end of the staff ex- 
 tending at least two feet above the water, and 
 numbered with figures at least three inches in 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 61 
 
 height corresponding with the number of the 
 license authorizing the use of such net or set line. 
 
 (e) The licensees of licensed nets or set lines 
 used in outlying waters shall, on their boats, 
 carry the state conservation commission, or its 
 deputies, to and from their nets or set lines when 
 set and, on demand of such officer, shall raise the 
 same for his inspection; and any such officer is 
 authorized, in the presence or absence of. the li- 
 censee, at any time, to raise any set line in any 
 waters, with as little damage as may be, for in- 
 spection. If any such licensee shall refuse to 
 carry any such officer as herein provided his li- 
 cense shall be revoked and cancelled. 
 
 (f) No license net shall be drawn or lifted 
 at any time between one hour after sunset and 
 sunrise of the following morning, in any waters 
 other than Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green 
 Bay, the Fox River beyond a distance of 500 
 feet below the dam at De Pere, and Sturgeon Bay. 
 
 (g) No fish of any kind shall be taken or re- 
 tained in any net, when drawn or lifted, other 
 than the kind or kinds expressly authorized to be 
 taken or retained in such net, as provided in this 
 chapter; and except as provided in paragraph (h) 
 any such other kind or kinds of fish coming into 
 or taken in such nets shall be immediately returned, 
 carefully and with as little injury as possible, to 
 the waters from which they were taken. 
 
 (h) All rough fish taken in net in inland water 
 shall be brought to shore and buried, sold, or oth- 
 erwise lawfully disposed of; but none of such fish 
 shall be returned to any waters of this state. 
 
 (i) Whenever the size of mesh of any net is 
 specified in this chapter it shall be the size of such 
 mesh, stretch measure, at the time of its use. 
 (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00.) 
 
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 29.31 Dip Nets iii Inland Waters. (1) No per- 
 son shall set, use or operate any dip net In any of 
 the inland waters of the state for taking, catching 
 or killing of any variety of fish other than as 
 specified in this section, 
 
 (2) Dip nets not exceeding eight feet in diam- 
 eter with meshes of not less than three inches may 
 be used for taking, catching or killing rough fish 
 in the Fond du Lac river within three miles of 
 its mouth; in Silver creek in the town of Ripon, 
 Fond du Lac county, from the old Arcade dam to 
 the Green Lake county line; in the Big Wolf river; 
 in Butternut lake, Ashland and Price counties; 
 in the Manitowoc river from its mouth up to Ripp's 
 bridge in the town of Rockland, Manitowoc county, 
 and in all the streams and rivers flowing into Lake 
 Michigan in that part of such streams beginning 
 at the mouth and extending ten miles inland. (Pen- 
 alty $50.00 — $100.00.) 
 
 29.32 Minnow Nets. (1) Use limited. No 
 person shall set, use or operate any minnow seine 
 or minnow dip net in any of the waters of this state 
 for taking, catching or killing fish of any variety, 
 other than as specified in this section. 
 
 (2) iHland waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
 ceeding forty feet in length and five feet in depth., 
 and minnow dip nets not exceeding six feet in 
 diameter may be used in all inland waters for 
 taking, catching or killing rough fish minnows for 
 bait only; but not in any such waters, creeks, or 
 streams inhabited by trout or in which trout may 
 have been planted, or in Turtle creek in Walworth 
 and Rock counties, unless supervised by the state 
 conservation commission or its deputies. 
 
 (3) Outlying waters. Minnow seines not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred feet in length and five feet 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 63 
 
 in depth and minnow dip nets not exceeding six 
 feet in diameter may be used in Lake Superior, 
 Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, and 
 the Fox river below the dam at De Pere, for taking, 
 catching, or killing rough fish minnows for bait 
 only. (Penalty $50.00 — $100.00) 
 
 29.33 Net and Set Hook Fishing in Outlying 
 Waters. (1) License authorized. Net or set 
 hook licenses which shall authorize the use of one 
 or more of the kinds of nets or lines of set hooks 
 named in this section, as limited herein, for the 
 taking, catching, or killing of fish in the waters of 
 Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Stur- 
 geon Bay, and the Fox river below the dam at De 
 Pere, shall be issued, subject to the provisions 
 of section 29.09, by the state conservation com- 
 mission to any person duly applying therefor. 
 
 (2) Form of license. In addition to the facts 
 required by section 29.09, each application for 
 such license, and the license issued thereon, shali 
 state the name and kind of vessel and whether 
 with or without a steam lifter, and the number 
 and kind of nets or set hooks to be covered by 
 the license applied for. 
 
 (3) License period and fees. Each such li- 
 cense shall be effective only from the first day 
 of January until the thirty-first day of December 
 of the same year; and the fee for each license 
 issued to any resident of this state is two dollars 
 for a gill net or nets; five dollars for each seine; 
 two dollars for each pound net and leader; five 
 dollars for trap net or nets, fyke net or nets, drop 
 net or nets, with leaders; and one dollar for each 
 trammel net, or for set hooks. The fee for each 
 license issued to any nonresident is the same as 
 the resident fee, except for gill nets operated in 
 conjunction with or from any vessel; and for gill 
 
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 nets so operated, two dollars for any vessel pro- 
 pelled by oars, paddle, or pole, fifty dollars for any 
 other vessel propelled otherwise than by steam, 
 one hundred dollars for any steam vessel without 
 a steam lifter, and two hundred dollars for any 
 steam vessel with a steam lifter. 
 
 (4) Metal tags. No such licensed net or set 
 hooks shall be used until the same are equipped 
 with metal tags stamped to designate the kind of 
 net or set hooks and number of the license cover- 
 ing the same. One such tag shall be securely 
 fastened to each two thousand lineal feet, or frac- 
 tion thereof, of gill net or set hooks; one to each 
 pound net; one to each five hundred lineal feet, 
 or fraction thereof, of seine; and one to each fyke, 
 drop, trap, submarine or trammel net. Such tags 
 shall be furnished by the state conservation com- 
 mission to the licensee at the time of issuing the 
 license, on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents 
 for each tag, except that tags for gill nets shall 
 be fifty cents. 
 
 (5) Reserve waters. The following waters are 
 reserve waters, and no nets of any kind shall be 
 set therein, namely: In Lake Superior within one- 
 fourth mile from the entry of the channel between 
 Wi^onsin Point and Minnesota Point, or from any 
 harbor, pier or breakwater, or from the mouth of 
 any stream flowing into Lake Superior, or from 
 the shore line of Douglas county. In Lake Michi- 
 gan and Green Bay within one-fourth mile of any 
 harbor, pier or bre-akwater, or from the mouth of 
 any stream flowing into Lake Michigan or Green 
 Bay, or within one mile from any harbor, pier or 
 breakwater in Milwaukee county, or within one 
 mile from the shore line of Milwaukee county. 
 In the waters of Lake Michigan or Green Bay no 
 gill net Shall be set within one-fourth mile from 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 65 
 
 the shore line of Door county and no net of any 
 kind shall be used in the following bays or harbors 
 in Door county, namely: Sturgeon Bay, Little 
 Sturgeon Bay, Pish Creek Harbor, Eagle Harbor, 
 Bailey's Harbor, Mud Bay, North Bay, Rowley's 
 Bay, and Washington Harbor and Detroit Harbor 
 in Washington Island. No gill net of less than 
 four inches stretch measure shall be set in less than 
 forty fathoms of water, except in Green Bay proper. 
 
 (6) Close seasons. For the purpose of this 
 subsection the waters of Green Bay shall be con- 
 sidered to include all that area south of a line 
 drawn between Limekiln Bluff in Door county and 
 the mouth of the Menominee river in Marinette 
 county, and including the Fox river as far as the 
 dam at De Pere, and all the waters of Green Bay 
 north of the above described line shall be subject 
 to the law covering Lake Michigan, 
 
 (a) In Green Bay there shall be a close 
 season on lake trout and whitefish from October 
 21 to November 21. A close season for pike and 
 pickerel from March 10 to May 1. A close season 
 for all varieties of fish, except lake trout and white- 
 fish from the first day of April to the fifteenth day 
 of May, inclusive. 
 
 (b) In Lake Michigan there shall be a close 
 season on Lake trout and whitefish from October 
 21 to November 21. 
 
 (c) In Lake Superior there shall be a close 
 season for lake trout and whitefish from September 
 15 to November 1. 
 
 (7) Prohibited nets. Minnow net. For the 
 purpose of this subsection the waters of Green 
 Bay shall be considered to include all that area 
 south of a line drawn between Limekiln Bluff 
 in Door county and the mouth of the Menominee 
 river in Marinette county and including the Fox 
 
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 river as far as the dam at De Pere. All the waters 
 of Green Bay north of the above described line 
 shall be subject to the law covering Lake Michigan. 
 
 (a) In Green Bay nets with a mesh not less 
 than four inches may be used for the taking of 
 lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets with a mesh 
 not less than two and three-eighths inches may be 
 used for taking herring, chub, bluefin, or perch. 
 Seines with a mesh of not less than three inches 
 and pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
 inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
 any kind shall be set for the purpose of catching 
 any variety of fish during the close season for 
 such fish and from the first day of April to the 
 fifteenth day of May, inclusive, except gill nets 
 with mesh of not less than four inches for the 
 purpose of taking lake trout or whitefish, no nets 
 of any kind shall be set in the waters of Green 
 Bay, During the period from January 1 to March 
 10 gill nets with a mesh of two and one-eighth 
 inches may be used under the ice for the purpose 
 of catching herring. 
 
 (b) In Lake Superior gill nets with a mesh 
 of not less than four inches may be used for the 
 purpose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill 
 nets with a mesh of not less than two and three- 
 eighths inches may be used during the months of 
 November and December for the purpose of taking 
 herring. Seines with a mesh of not less than three 
 inches and pound nets with a mesh of not more 
 than two inches in the pound may be used. No 
 nets of any kind shall be set or used for the pur- 
 pose of taking any variety of fish during the close 
 season for such fish. 
 
 (c) In Lake Michigan gill nets with a mesh of 
 not less than four inches may be used for the pur- 
 pose of taking lake trout and whitefish. Gill nets 
 
Statutes Rei^atinc to Wild Animals. 67 
 
 with a mesh of not less than two and one-haff 
 inches may be used for the purpose of taking her- 
 ring, chub, bluefin and perch but no such nets 
 shall be set in less than forty fathoms of water. 
 Seines with a mesh of not less than three inches 
 and pound nets with a mesh of not more than two 
 inches in the pound may be used. No nets of 
 any icind shall be set for the purpose of taking any 
 variety of fish during the close season for such fish. 
 
 (d) In Green Bay and Lake Michigan minnow 
 seines fifty feet long and five feet deep may be 
 used for taking rough fish minnows for bait. Each 
 set-hook licensee may use not more than two 
 thousand feet of gill net with a mesh of one and 
 three-eighths inches, except in reserve waters, for 
 the purpose of taking bloaters for bait. The pro- 
 visions of subdivision (d) of subsection (7) of 
 section 29.33, shall not take effect until January 1, 
 1918. 
 
 (e) All nets with a mesh other than such as 
 above specified and all nets used in violation of this 
 chapter are contraband nets and shall be seized 
 and confiscated whenever found in the water or on 
 any vessel, dock or reel. Any such contraband 
 nets so found shall be deemed sufficient evidence 
 of the use of such nets by the owner thereof. 
 
 (8) Bass, muskellunge and sturgeon. All 
 black bass, muskellunge and sturgeon taken in 
 any net shall be immediately returned alive and 
 without avoidable injury to the waters from which 
 taken. 
 
 (9) Undersize fish. No licensee of any net or 
 set hooks shall transport or cause to be transported, 
 fish of any of the varieties mentioned in this sub- 
 section of a length less than that specified for each 
 variety; and such measurement of length shall be 
 taken in a straight line from the tip of the nose to 
 
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 'the utmost end of the tail fin, except that the 
 measurement of dressed fish be of the length of 
 the carcass, namely: 
 
 (These size limits cover Green Bay, Lake Michi- 
 gan and Green Bay.) 
 
 Lake trout 12 inches 
 
 Whitefish 13 
 
 Suckers 10 
 
 Carp 12 
 
 Suckers with head and tail off . 7 
 
 Perch 8 
 
 Perch with head and tail off 5 
 
 Pike 13 
 
 Pike with head and tail off 10 
 
 Pickerel 16 
 
 Pickerel with head and tail off 11 
 
 Catfish 15 
 
 Catfish with head off 13 
 
 Any other variety 7 
 
 Any licensee taking sucli undersize fish shall 
 bring them to shore and immediately notify the 
 state conservation commission or its deputy; and 
 the latter shall take possession of such fish and de- 
 liver them to some state, county, or charitable 
 institution, or otherwise dispose of the same. 
 
 (10) Possession, sale and transportation. No 
 such licensee and no other person shall transport 
 or cause to be transported, or deliver or receive 
 or offer to deliver or receive for transportation or 
 have in possession or under control any fish of 
 the varieties mentioned in subsection (9) of a 
 length less than that specified therein for each 
 variety, respectively, whether lawfully or unlaw- 
 fully taken within or without the state. When- 
 ever such undersize fish are received by or offered 
 to any person for transportation in the course of 
 
Statutes Rflating to Wild Animals. 69 
 
 business, such person shall forthwith notify the 
 state conservation commission, or its deputy, stat- 
 ing full particulars. 
 
 (11) Penalty. Any violation of subsections 
 (1), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) of section 
 29.33 shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 three hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for 
 not less than six months nor more than nine 
 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 (12) Reports. On or before January 10 fol- 
 lowing the expiration of his license, each such li- 
 censee shall report to the state conservation com- 
 mission in writing, on blanks furnished by the said 
 commission, the number of his license, the kind. 
 number and size of nets, the length of lines of set 
 hooks used, number of lineal feet of gill nets, the 
 number of pounds and value of each variety of fish 
 caught; and such other information as may be re- 
 quired on the blanks furnished. Such report shall 
 be subscribed to before a notary public or a justice 
 of the peace. 
 
 29.34. Net Licenses; Mississippi River Waters. 
 
 (1) License authorized. Net licenses which shall 
 authorize the use of nets, as limited herein, dur- 
 ing the period of time extending from the fifteenth 
 day of June to the next succeeding fifteenth day of 
 April, for taking, catching, or killing fish* in the 
 waters of the Mississippi river. Lake Pepin, and 
 Lake St. Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous, and 
 sloughs tributary thereto and connected therewith, 
 shall be issued subject to the provisions of section 
 29.09 by the state conservation commission to any 
 resident of the state duly applying therefor. 
 
 (2) Bond. Before any such license is issued, 
 the applicant shall execute and deliver to the state 
 conservation commission a bond running to the 
 
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 state of Wisconsin, in the sum of two hundred 
 dollars, with two sureties, and conditioned that if 
 the applicant shall well and faithfully observe and 
 comply with all the provisions of this chapter, 
 said obligation to be null and void, otherwise to 
 remain in full force. Each said surety shall be 
 worth and qualify in at least the sum of two hun- 
 dred dollars, over and above all his debts and lia- 
 bilities, in property within this state not exempt 
 from sale on execution. 
 
 (3) License period; nets specified. Each such 
 license shall expire on the fifteenth day of April 
 next succeeding the date of its issue, and shall 
 authorize the use of one or more of the following 
 nets only: Seines not exceeding a total length of 
 four thousand feet, and having meshes of not less 
 than five inches on the wings or four inches in the 
 center of the pot, the pot not exceeding one hun- 
 dred and fifty feet in length; gill nets having 
 meshes of not less than seven inches; pound or 
 hoop nets having meshes of not less than six 
 inches in the leaders, five inches in the hearts, or 
 three inches in the hoops; and bait nets to be 
 used without leads, having meshes of not less than 
 three inches, and not more than a four-foot front. 
 
 (4) License fees. The fee for each such li- 
 cense is as follows: For seines, one dollar per 
 hundred for the first five hundred lineal feet, two 
 dollars per hundred for the second five hundred 
 lineal feet, three dollars per hundred for the third 
 five hundred lineal feet, four dollars per hundred 
 for the fourth five hundred lineal feet, five dollars 
 per hundred for the fifth five hundred lineal feet, 
 and six dollars for each one hundred lineal feet 
 over twenty-five hundred; for gill nets, five dollars 
 for the first two thousand lineal feet, and five 
 dollars for each additional one thousand lineal feet; 
 
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 for pound or hoop nets, five dollars for each 
 seven hundred liiieal feet of leader and one pound, 
 and five dollars for each additional pound, for 
 bait nets, one dollar each. 
 
 (5) Metal tags. No such licensed net shall be 
 used until the same is equipped with metal tags 
 stamped to designate the kind of net and number 
 of the license covering the same. One such tag 
 shall be securely fastened to each five hundred 
 lineal feet, or fraction thereof, of seine; one to 
 each two thousand lineal feet, or fraction thereof, 
 of gill net; and one to each fyke, hoop, or bait net. 
 Such tags shall be furnished by the state conser- 
 vation commission to the licensee at the time 
 of issuing the license, on payment of a fee of 
 twenty-five cents for each tag. 
 
 (6) Protected fish. No such licensed net shall 
 be used for taking, catching, or killing any of the 
 following named fish: catfish of any variety under 
 fifteen inches in length in the rough, or twelve 
 inches dressed with the head detached; pike of any 
 variety, bass of any variety, crappies, sunfish, pick- 
 erel, sturgeon, or perch. 
 
 (7) Reserve waters. No such licensed net 
 shall be used for taking, catching, or killing fish 
 of any kind in any of the following named waters: 
 Rice lake, French lake, Mud lake. Round lake. 
 Long lake, French slough. Spring creek, Spring 
 slough, and Black river in La Crosse county; Cour- 
 tois pond, Pickerel, Spring, Nigger and French- 
 town sloughs and Gordon bay, in Crawford county; 
 the De Soto bay, Long slough, T slough, Green 
 lake, Pick's lake and all sloughs, lakes and bayous 
 from De Soto bay to the main channel of the Miss- 
 issippi river and as far north as Battle Bar in Ver- 
 non county; Cassville sloughs from Glen Haven to 
 Cassville; Daley lake, Wyalusing bay and Glen 
 
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 lake between Wyalusing and the Burlington rail- 
 way bridge, Plondke and Harris sloughs, Craw- 
 ford lake, Perry lake, and Bertram lake, all in 
 Grant county; Trention lake, Trention slough, Mud 
 lake and Mero slough in Pierce; and Beef slough in 
 Buffalo county; and the Mississippi river within 
 fifteen hundred feet of the mouth of the Chippewa 
 river. 
 
 (8) Temporary ponds; shipments. Each such 
 licensee may construct temporary fish ponds and 
 keep his fish therein until they can be marketed; 
 and a card shall be attached to each shipment 
 thereof, on which shall be written "Shipped under 
 section 2934," the signature of the licensee, and 
 the number of his license. 
 
 (9) Reports. Each such licensee shall keep a 
 strict record and account as to each variety of fish 
 and the number of pounds thereof taken by him 
 In such licensed nets; and shall report thereon to 
 the state conservation commission on or before the 
 fifteenth day of May covering his operations dur- 
 ing the preceding year. (Penalty $50.00 to 
 $100.00.) 
 
 29.35 Net Licenses; Whitefish and Cisco in In- 
 land lakes. (1) Net licenses which shall auth- 
 orize the use of not exceeding one hundred lineal 
 feet of gill net, with meshes not less than two and 
 three-fourths inches, or dip nets with a diameter 
 of not more than eight feet and with meshes not 
 less than one and one-half inches, for taking, catch- 
 ing or killing whitefish in any of the inland waters 
 of the state containing whitefish, or not exceeding 
 one hundred lineal feet of gill net, with meshes not 
 less than two inches, for the purpose of catching 
 ciscos in any of the inland waters of the state 
 containing Cisco may be issued by the state con- 
 
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 servation commission, subject to the provisions of 
 section 29.09, to any resident of the state duly ap- 
 plying therefor. Sucji licenses may also be issued 
 by the commission in its discretion, for the catch- 
 ing of whitefish or ciscos, respectively, in any other 
 inland waters. The fee for each such license is 
 flfty cents. 
 
 (2) Each such license shall be limited to such 
 period of twenty days as shall be fixed by the state 
 conservation commission, and no such whitefish 
 licensee shall have in his possession or under his 
 control at any time more than one hundred pounds 
 of whitefish. 
 
 (3) No such licensed net shall be used until 
 the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
 to designate the kind of net and number of the li- 
 cense covering the same, to be securely fastened 
 to each net. Such tag shall be furnished by the 
 commission at the time of issuing the license. 
 Spears may be used in the waters of Vilas county 
 during the period from October 15 to November 15 
 for the purpose of spearing cisco. (Penalty $50.00 
 to $100.00.) 
 
 29.36 Net Licenses; Rough Pish in Winnebago 
 Waters. (1) The state conservation commission 
 may upon application therefor issue to any person a 
 license to use and operate a seine, fyke, hoop net, 
 or a turtle net in lakes Winnebago, Winneeonne, 
 Poygan, Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, 
 and the Fox and Wolf rivers, for the purpose of 
 taking and catching rough fish between the fif- 
 teenth day of June of each year and the next 
 succeeding first day of April. All the following 
 varieties of fish so caught shall be the property of 
 the licensee, i. e., pickerel, buffalo fish, carp, eel- 
 pout, dogfish, sheepshead, billfish, red horse, suc- 
 ker."?, lawyers arid lizards. 
 
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 (2) The fee for eack Buch. license is aa followsi 
 For a seine of five hundred feet and not over one 
 thousand feet, twenty-five dolJ.ars; of one thousand 
 feet or over, fifty dollars each: for seines of less 
 than fire hundred feet, or fyke, hoop or turtle 
 nets, five dollars each. No nets shall be used 
 until the same are equipped with metal tags, 
 stamped to designate the kind of net and num- 
 bered to correspond with the number of the license 
 authorizing the operation of said net or nets, one 
 such metal tag to be securely fastened to each 
 net. Such metal tags shall be furnished to the 
 licensee by the state conservation commission on 
 the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents for each 
 tag. Any licensee operating a seine, seines, fyke 
 or hoop net, under the provisions of this section, 
 shall do so under the direction and personal sup- 
 ervision of the state conservation commission or 
 ine of its deputies, but not otherwise; but the 
 state conservation commission may order one dep- 
 uty to direct and supervise the operation of a seine, 
 seines, fyke or hoop nets by more than one licensee. 
 
 (3) All licenses under the provisions of this 
 section shall be issued upon the express condition 
 that each licensee operating a seine or seines shall 
 pay to the state conservation commission one-half 
 cent per pound for all fish taken under such li- 
 cense and which are packed ready to be shipped 
 or otherwise disposed of. Any and all moneys so 
 received by the commission shall be paid into the 
 state treasury. 
 
 (4) Any licensee shall be allowed to ship or 
 transport to any place he desires any fish taken 
 under the provisions of this section, except those 
 required to be immediately returned to the waters. 
 A card shall be attached to the package or box in 
 which tke same shall be shipped, on which shall b« 
 
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 written "Shipped under section 29.36," the signa- 
 ture of the licensee, and the number of his license. 
 (5) Each such licensee may construct tempo- 
 rary fish ponds and keep his fish therein until they 
 can be marketed. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.37 Set Line Licenses; Inland Waters. (1) 
 
 Set line licenses which shall authorize the use of 
 one set line only, with not exceeding twenty-five 
 hooks, for taking, catching or killing fish, shall be 
 issued, subject to the provisions of section 29.09, 
 by the county clerk of the county bordering on 
 the waters where such set lines are intended and 
 permitted to be used, to any person duly applying 
 therefor. 
 
 (2) Each such license shall be limited to the 
 period of time extending from the twenty-ninth 
 day of May to the next succeeding fifteenth day of 
 February. The fee for each such license is one 
 dollar. 
 
 (3) No such licensed set line shall be used un- 
 til the same is equipped with a metal tag, stamped 
 to designate the number of the license covering 
 the same, which shall be securely fastened to one 
 end of the set line. Such tag shall be furnished 
 by the state conservation commission to the county 
 clerk, and by the latter to the licensee at the time 
 of issuing the license, on payment of a fee of twenty- 
 five cents. All fees received by the county clerks 
 for such metal tags shall be returned and reported 
 in the same manner as are license fees, as pre- 
 scribed in section 29.09, but without deduction. 
 
 (4) Such licensed set lines may be used only 
 in the following waters: Big Wolf river in Waupaca 
 and Outagamie counties; Lake Winnebago, Lake 
 Butte des Morts, Little Butte des Morts, Lake Win- 
 neconne, Lake Poygan, Lake Puckaway, and the 
 
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 river connecting said lakes, Fox river, except be- 
 low the dam at De Pere; Wisconsin river from the 
 north line of Sauk county to its mouth; Black 
 river from the north line of Jackson county to its 
 mouth; the Chippewa river from its mouth to the 
 dam at Jim Falls, Chippewa county; Menomonee 
 river bordering on Marinette county; the Pecaton- 
 ica river in Green county; and the Mississippi 
 river. Lake Pepin and Lake St. Croix. 
 
 (5) In the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin and 
 Lake St. Croix, Big Wolf river in Waupaca and 
 Winnebago counties; in the Fox river in Winne- 
 bago county and in Outagamie county as far as the 
 dam at De Pare; in Lake Winnebago, Lake Winne- 
 conne, Lake Butte des Morts, Little Butte des 
 Morts, Lake Poygan, three hundred hooks may be 
 used but in such waters no frog, minnow or live 
 bait shall be used. No licensed set line shall be 
 equipped with any hooks smaller than i/'. (Pen- 
 alty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 CLAMMING 
 
 29.38 Clamming Licenses. (1) No person 
 who is not a resident of this state or who has re- 
 sided in this state less than one year next previous 
 shall take, catch or kill any clam in the inland wa- 
 ters of this state unless a license therefor has 
 been duly issued to him. Such licenses shall be 
 issued subject to the provisions of section 29.09 by 
 the state conservation commission to all such per- 
 sons duly applying therefor. The fee for each 
 such license is fifty dollars. Each such license© 
 may use one boat only, in the exercise of his 
 clamming privilege. 
 
 (2) No person shall take, catch or kill any 
 mussels in any of the waters of this state at any 
 time with the use of a dredge. (Penalty 160.00— 
 $100.00.) 
 
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 POSSESSION OF GAME 
 
 29.39 Possession During Close Sea£(on« or in 
 
 Excess of Bag Ldmit. No person shall have in his 
 possession or under his control, or have in storage 
 or retention or as common carrier for any one 
 person, any game, game fish, or other wild animal 
 or carcass or part thereof, during the close season 
 therefor, or in excess of the bag limit for one day 
 or below the minimum size thereof at any one 
 time during the open season, whether lawfully or 
 unlawfully taken within or without the state. 
 (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.40 Possession of Deer; Heads and Skins. 
 
 (1) Deer tags. Any person having lawfully 
 killed a deer shall immediately attach and leave 
 attached to the carcass, or part thereof, the deer 
 tag corresponding to his license; and no person 
 shall have in his possession or under his control, 
 or have in storage or as a common carrier, any 
 such carcass, or part thereof, without such tag at- 
 tached. 
 
 (2) Home consumption. Any person residing 
 in this state having lawfully killed a deer, may 
 have in his possession and consume the meat there- 
 of in his own family at any time, but must leave 
 the tag attached thereto. 
 
 (3) Heads and skins. The head and skin of 
 any deer lawfully killed, when severed from the 
 rest of the carcass, are not subject to the provi- 
 sions of this chapter; but no person shall have in 
 his possession or under his control the green head 
 or green skin of a deer between the tenth day of 
 January and the succeeding 21st day of November 
 of each year, or at any time a deer head in the 
 
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 velvet, or a deer skin in the red, blue or spotted 
 coat. (Penalty $50 to $100.) 
 
 29.41 Skins of Fur-Bearing Animals. The skin 
 of any fur-bearing animal lawfully killed, vv^hen 
 separated from the rest of the carcass is Hot sub- 
 ject to the provisions of this chapter; liut no per- 
 son shall have in his possession or under his con- 
 trol the skin of any fisher, marten, mink, or musk- 
 rat showing that the same has been shot or 
 speared, nor the green skin of any fur-bearing an- 
 imal from tlie fifth day after the beginning of 
 the close season for such animal until the ending 
 thereof. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 
 
 29.42 Possession of Game Birds. (1) With- 
 out license. No person, other than the holder of 
 a hunting license or scientist's certificate duly is- 
 sued to him and in force and carried by him on 
 his person, shall have in his possession or under 
 his control any game bird, or animal, or the car- 
 cass or any part thereof. (Penalty $50 to $100 
 plus $5 for each bird.) 
 
 (2) Nests and eggs. No person shall take or 
 needlessly destroy, or have in his possession or 
 under his control, except by virtue of a scientist'is 
 certificate, the nest or eggs of any wild bird for 
 which a close season is prescribed in this chapter. 
 (Penalty $50 to $100.) 
 
Do Not Leave Your 
 
 CAMP FIRE 
 
 Until You Are 
 
 Sure It Is Completely 
 
 Extinguished 
 
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 TRANSPORTATION OP GAME 
 
 29.43 Ti'ansportation; General Provisions. (1) 
 
 During close season. No person shall transport or 
 cause to be transported, or deliver or receive or 
 offer to deliver or receive for transportation, any 
 game or game fish or carcass or part thereof dur- 
 ing the close season therefor, whether lawfully or 
 unlawfully taken within or without the state. 
 Whenever any game or game fish or carcass or 
 part thereof is offered to any person for trans- 
 portation during the close season therefor such 
 person shall forthwith notify the state conserva- 
 tion commission or its deputy, stating full particu- 
 lars of such offer and by whom made. 
 
 (2) Trunks; valises. No person shall carry 
 with him or under his control in any trunk, valise, 
 or other package or enclosure, at any time, any 
 game or game fish, or carcass or part thereof. 
 
 (3) Transportation employes. No employe of 
 any railroad, express, or other transportation com- 
 pany, and no steward, porter, or other employe of 
 any dining, parlor or sleeping car shall have in his 
 personal possession or under his personal control, 
 at any time while in such service, any game or 
 game fish, or carcass or part thereof. 
 
 (4) Labeling game shipments. No person 
 shall transport or cause to be transported, or de- 
 liver or receive for transportation, any package 
 or parcel containing any wild animal or carcass 
 or part thereof, unless the same is labeled in plain 
 letters on the address side of such package or par- 
 cel so as to disclose the name and addresn of the 
 consignor, the name and address of the consignee, 
 and the number of pounds of each kind of fish or 
 the number of each variety of other wild animals; 
 
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 or carcasses, or parts thereof, contained therein; 
 and unless the consignor is the owner of such ship- 
 ment and shall deliver to the common carrier 
 therewith, either personally, or by agent, a writ- 
 ing signed by him personally, stating that he is 
 the owner of the shipment. (Penalty $50-$ 100.) 
 
 29.44 Interstate Transportation of Game. No 
 
 person shall transport or cause to be transported, 
 or deliver or receive or offer to deliver or receive 
 for transportation, into or through this state, any 
 game or game fish or carcass or part thereof from 
 any other state in violation of the laws of such 
 state relating to the transportation thereof; nor 
 any game or game fish or carcass or part thereof 
 lawfully transported from any other state, nor 
 have the same in his possession or under his con- 
 trol, during the close season or in excess of the 
 limitations prescribed for such animal in this chap- 
 ter, unless a permit therefor has been duly issued 
 to such person by the state conservation commis- 
 sion; but any person who has lawfully killed a 
 deer in this state may, on his license only, take 
 such deer into any adjoining state, if the laws 
 thereof permit, and ship the same from any point 
 in that state to any point within this state (Pen- 
 alty $50-$100.) 
 
 29.45 Transportrtion of Deer. (1) No com- 
 mon carrier shall receive for transportation or 
 transport or attempt to transport any deer, or 
 carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as pro- 
 vided in this section. 
 
 (2) Each holder of & resident hunting license, 
 settler's hunting license, or* nonresident general 
 hunting license, may transport or cause to be 
 
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 transported one deer between the last ten days of 
 November of each year; but must accompany the 
 same from the point of shipment to the point of 
 destination. 
 
 (3) The place of delivery of any such ship- 
 ment by a resident licensee shall be within the 
 state, and by a nonresident licensee may be either 
 within the state or at his residence without the 
 state. (Penalty $50.00-$100.00.) 
 
 29.46 Transportation of Game Birds. (1) 
 
 No common carrier shall receive for transportation 
 or transport or attempt to transport any game 
 bird, or carcass or part thereof, otherwise than as 
 follows: Each holder of a hunting license may 
 carry with him openly, in his personal possession, 
 a mixed bag of not more than twenty such birds, 
 but not more than the bag limit for one day of 
 any one variety; but no such licensee resident 
 within this state shall carry or convey any such 
 birds beyond the borders of the state. (Penalty 
 $50,00-$100.00 plus $5.00 for each bird.) 
 
 29.47 Transportation of Fish. ( 1 ) Time lim- 
 itation. No person shall transport or cause to be 
 transported, or deliver or receive or offer to de- 
 liver or receive for transportation, any game fish 
 taken from inland waters, during the period ex- 
 tending from the first day of January to the last 
 day of the close season for such fish, in each year. 
 
 (2) From inland waters. No person shall 
 transport or cause to be transported, or deliver 
 or receive or offer to deliver or receive ''for trans- 
 portation, at any time, any game fish taken from 
 inland waters other than as follows: 
 
 (a) One shipment only of not more than one 
 package, and containing not nore than twenty 
 
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 pounds of game fish of any variety other than those 
 named in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this subsec- 
 tion, or containing in lieu thereof not more than 
 two such fish of any weight, may be transported 
 by any resident to any point within the state, or 
 by any nonresident licensee to any point without 
 the state in each period of seven days. Nonresi- 
 dent hook and line fishing licenses may be issued 
 by the state conservation commission to any non- 
 resident female over the age of sixteen years for 
 the purpose of making shipment without the state, 
 under the provisions of this section. 
 
 (b) Any shipment containing more than 
 twenty but not exceeding fifty pounds of game fish 
 of any variety other than those named in para- 
 graphs (c) and (d) of this subsection may be 
 transported only to a point within this state, and 
 must be accompanied by the owner from the point 
 of shipment to the point of destination. 
 
 (c) Thirty-five trout of any variety other than 
 lake trout may be transported to any point within 
 or without the state, when accompanied by the 
 owner from the point of shipment to the point of 
 destination. 
 
 Cd) One shipment only, containing not more 
 than twenty pounds of lake trout taken from in- 
 land waters, may be transported by any person in 
 each period of seven days, to any point within or 
 without this state, when accompanied by the owner 
 from the point of shipment to the point of desti- 
 nation. 
 
 (3) From outlying waters. The transporta- 
 tion of fish taken in outlying waters is subject f 
 the following limitations: 
 
 (a) No green fish of any variety shall be ship- 
 ped from any port located on outlying waters dur- 
 
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 ing the close season for such fish, except the first 
 three days thereof. 
 
 (b) Pike and pickerel of lawful size and law- 
 fully taken from outlying waters may be trans- 
 ported to points within or without the state with- 
 out limitation as to quantity; but all such ship- 
 ments shall be billed only from a port on outlying 
 waters directly to their destination, and shall not 
 be rebilled or reshipped from any other point 
 within the state. 
 
 (4) Shipments from inland points. Any ship- 
 ment of game fish of any variety originating at 
 any point in this state other than ports located on 
 outlying waters is subject to the nrovisions of this 
 section governing the transport^ion of game fish 
 taken from inland waters. 
 
 (5) Foreign shipments. Pike and pickerel in 
 a frozen state, whether dressed or not dressed, 
 legally taken or imported from any foreign coun- 
 try, are not subject to any of the provisions of this 
 chapter except subsection (10) of section 29.33; 
 but the person importing, transporting, dealing in, 
 or selling such fish shall keep a separate record of 
 all shipments and consignments thereof, contain- 
 ing the number of pounds, the date received, the 
 name of the consignor, and the name of the car- 
 rier transporting the same, which shall be at all 
 times open to inspection by the state conservation 
 commission or its deputies. 
 
 (6) Injurious fish. Live carp minnows and 
 •^ogfish minnows shall not be transported within 
 the state. (Penalty $5 0.0 0-$ 10 0.00.) 
 
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 COMMERCE IN GAME 
 
 29.48 Sale of Game. Except as provided by 
 section 29.5 2 no person shall sell, purchase, or 
 barter, or offer to sell, purchase, or barter, or have 
 in his possession or under his control for the pur- 
 pose of sale or barter, any deer, squirrel, game 
 bird, black bass, muskellunge, or trout other than 
 lake trout, or the carcass or part thereof, at any 
 time; nor any other game fish taken from inland 
 waters during the period extending from the first 
 day of January to the next succeeding twenty-ninth 
 day of May of each year; nor any other game or 
 other wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, dur- 
 ing the close season therefor. This section ap- 
 plies, whether such animals were lawfully or un- 
 lawfully taken within or without the state. (Pen- 
 alty $50-$100.) 
 
 29.49 Serving of Game to Guests. (1) Pro^ 
 hibited. Except as provided by section 29.52 no 
 innkeeper, manager or steward of any restaurant, 
 club, hotel, boarding house, saloon, logging camp, 
 Or mining camp shall sell, barter, serve or give, or 
 cause to be sold, bartered, served, or given to the 
 guests or boarders thereof the meat of any deer, 
 squirrel, game bird, or trout other than lake trout, 
 or the carcass or part thereof, at any time; nor 
 any other game fish taken from inland waters 
 during the period extending from the first day of 
 January to the next succeeding twenty-ninth day 
 of May of each year; nor any frog or other 
 game or other wild animal, or carcass or part 
 thereof, during the close season therefor, except 
 rabbits in counties containing a city of the first 
 class. This section applies, whether such animals 
 
86 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 were lawfully or unlawfully taken within or with- 
 out the slate. 
 
 (2) Free lunch. The giving, offering, or af- 
 fording opportunity to take free lunch in any of 
 the places named in the preceding subsection shall 
 be held to be embraced within the prohibitions 
 thereof. 
 
 (3) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
 dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im- 
 prisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
 months nor more than one year, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment. 
 
 PROPAGATION OF WILD ANIMAIiS 
 
 29.50 Propagation Privileged. Nothing in the 
 foregoing provisions concerning the protection of 
 wild animals shall affect the operation of state 
 hatcheries, the removal of fish which have died 
 from natural causes or the removal of deleterious 
 fish by the state conservation commission or under 
 its authority; or the propagation or transporta- 
 tion, collecting and transplanting of fish or fish 
 fry by state authority; nor the transportation of 
 fish into or through this state or out of it by the 
 commissioners of fisheries of other states or of 
 the United States; nor the operation of private fish 
 hatcheries, or the propagation of fish in private 
 waters, or the transportation and sale of fish there- 
 from as hereinafter provided; but the state con- 
 servation commission, or its agents and employes, 
 shall not furnish fish or fry from state hatcheries 
 to private ponds, private clubs, corporations or 
 preserves, and shall not plant them in waters where 
 the general public is not allowed the rights and 
 privileges enjoyed by any individual. 
 
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 29.51 State Propagation of Fish. (1) State 
 fisli hatcheries. The state conservation commis- 
 sion shall have general charge of the following 
 matters, and all necessary powers therefor, namely: 
 
 (a) The propagation and breeding of fish of 
 such species and varieties as they deem of value. 
 
 (b) The collection and diffusion of useful in- 
 formation in regard to the propagation and con- 
 servation of fish. 
 
 (c) The government and control, care, sup- 
 ply, and repair of the state fish hatcheries and the 
 grounds used therefor, whether owned or leased, 
 and the buildings, ponds, fish car and other ap- 
 paratus, and all other prpoerty belonging to or 
 held by the state for the propagation of fish. 
 
 (d) The purchase and establishment and con- 
 trol, in like manner, of new hatcheries when ap- 
 propriations shall be made by law, and the es- 
 tablishment of such temporary hatching stations 
 as they may deem necessary. 
 
 (e) The receiving from the commissioners of 
 fisheries of the United States, and from the com- 
 missioners of fisheries of other states, or other per- 
 sons, of all spawn, fry or fish donated to the state 
 or purchased, and in the most practical ways, by 
 exchange or otherwise, to procure, receive, dis- 
 tribute, and dispose of spawn and fish; to make 
 contracts and carry on the same for the transpor- 
 tation of fish cars, cans, commissioners and em- 
 ployes by land or water as may be most advan- 
 tageous to the state; and to take such other meas- 
 ures as in their judgment shall best promote the 
 abundant supply of food fishes in the waters of 
 the state. 
 
 (f) The commission shall keep an inventory 
 of the property of the several hatcheries, with the 
 cost of each article, and account in detail and sep- 
 
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 arately of the expenses of each hatchery; also of 
 the distribution of the fish, of maintaining and 
 repairing property and of such improvements as 
 may from time to time be ordered. 
 
 (2) Transplantation of fish. The commission 
 may take or cause to be taken fish at all seasons 
 of the year from any waters of the state for stock- 
 ing other waters, or for the purpose of securing 
 eggs for artificial propagation in the state hatch- 
 eries. Such fish or eggs shall be taken only un- 
 der a special permit issued by the commission, and 
 then only in the presence of the commission or its 
 deputies. Such permit shall specify the kinds of 
 fish that may be taken and the manner in which 
 they may be taken; and shall be subject to the con- 
 ditions that the holder shall pay for the services 
 of and furnish free transportation and meals on 
 his boat to a competent person approved by the 
 commission to spawn the fish and fertilize the 
 eggs, and that such eggs shall be delivered at 
 such place as may be dv__Ugnated by the commis- 
 sion and forwarded to some state hatchery for 
 propagation. 
 
 (3) Delivery of spawn. Any person fishing in 
 any waters of this state shall deliver, on demand, 
 to the state conservation commission or its depu 
 ties or authorized agents, all kinds of fish, during 
 the spawning season, for the purpose of being 
 stripped of their eggs and milk; and the person 
 receiving them shall, immediately after having 
 stripped the fish, return them to the person from 
 whom received. Any such person shall permit the 
 commission, or its deputies, or authorized agents 
 to enter any boats, docks, grounds or other places 
 where such fish may be, for the purpose of strip- 
 ping the same while alive, and shall render such 
 assistance as may be necessary to expedite the 
 
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 work of mixing the eggs and milk for proper im- 
 pregnation. 
 
 (4) Removal of spawn or fish from state. No 
 person shall remove any fish egg or live fish from 
 this state except as authorized by law, unless a 
 permit therefor has been issued to him by the state 
 conservation commission. 
 
 (5) Unlawful fishing by employes. No em- 
 ploye of the commission, and no other person, 
 while engaged in catching wild fish from the pub- 
 lic waters for purposes of artificial propagation, 
 shall take or have in his possession or under hia 
 control any kind of fish other than those he has 
 been directed, by the commission or its deputy or 
 agent, to take therefrom. 
 
 29.52 Private Fish Hatcheries. (1) No per- 
 son shall stock any private fish hatchery with fish 
 or fry obtained from any Wisconsin state fish 
 hatchery, or from any waters of the state except 
 when such fish have been taken in a lawful man- 
 ner. 
 
 (2) The term "private fish hatchery" includes 
 on1v nrivatp nonds, with or without buildings, used 
 for the purpose of propagating fish and located as 
 follows: 
 
 (a) At the hea^l waters of or along a stream 
 for a distance of not to exceed one mile, on private 
 land possessed and controlled by the owner or 
 owners of such hatchery. 
 
 (b) On private land where the supply of wa- 
 ter for the hatchery is furnished by springs or 
 artificial wells. 
 
 (c) On private land where the supply of wa- 
 ter for the hatchery is obtained by the use ef 
 flumes, pipes, or ditches from flowing streams, pro- 
 vided that saifT fluiinefi. l^ipes. or dUcbe£, shall be 
 
90 STATB COJNSEJiVATIOJN Commissioh. 
 
 property screened fo as to prevent fish from past- 
 ing from such streams to the ponds of such hatch- 
 ery. 
 
 "(3) The owner or lessee of any private hatch- 
 ery shall report to the state conservation commis- 
 sion the name, if any, and location of such hatch- 
 ery, whereupon the commission shall inspect, and 
 in its discretion number and register such hatch- 
 ery and immediately inform the owner or lessee 
 of the number given such hatchery; such owner 
 or lessee shall, however, pay a registration fee 
 of five dollars, and all expenses of inspection ex- 
 cept the salary of the employe who inspects the 
 hatchery. 
 
 (4) Each package or box containing fish prop- 
 agated and raised in any private hatchery and 
 shipped or offered for shipment shall be branded 
 with an iron brand as follows: "Shipped from the 
 private fish hatchery of (insert name of owner or 
 lessee, location, and number of hatchery)" and 
 such brands shall not be used on packages contain- 
 ing fish not taken from such private hatchery. 
 
 (5) Any person who shall, without permission 
 of the owner, trespass or fish on the waters of a 
 private hatchery or fish pond properly registered 
 with the state conservation commission, shall be 
 punished by a fine of not less than fifteen dollars 
 nor more than twenty-five dollars and in default 
 of payment thereof shall L^ Imprisoned in the 
 county jail for not less than ten days nor more 
 than twenty days; provided, that the owner of such 
 private fish hatchery or fish pond gives notice b:« 
 maintaining signboards, at least one foot square 
 in at least two conspicuous places to every forty 
 acres. Prosecutions under this subsection sha)' 
 be by the owner of such private hatchery or pone 
 
Statutes Relatiw* to Wiuj Ajsiuais. 91 
 
 29.54 State Propagation of Wild Mammals and 
 Birds. (1) The state conservation commission 
 is authorized to take or purchase wild mammals 
 and birds and their eggs for propagation. The 
 distribution thereof shall be made throughout the 
 various parts of the state under the supervision 
 and direction of the commission, and according to 
 such regulations as they shall prescribe. 
 
 (2) No person shall take, remove, sell, or 
 transport from the public waters of this state to 
 any place beyond the borders of the state, any 
 duck potato, wild celery, or any other plant or 
 plant product except wild rice native in said water? 
 and commonly known to furnish food for game 
 birds. 
 
 29.55 Wild Animals For Parks. (1) The 
 
 state conservation commission may, on application 
 of any park board, grant permit to take, have, 
 sell, barter, or transport, at any time, live wild 
 animals for park purposes. 
 
 (2) The state conservation commission may, 
 on application of any person, grant a permit to 
 such person to take and transport wild animals 
 for propagation within the state, under the super- 
 vision of the commission or its deputies. 
 
 29.56 Forest County Game Refuge. Town- 
 ships thirty-eight north, of range twelve and thir- 
 teen east, Forest county, shall be known as the 
 Forest County Refuge. No person shall at any 
 time or in any manner, hunt any game within 
 said refuge. 
 
 20.57 WUd Life Refuges. (1) Establish- 
 ment The owner or owners of any tract, or con- 
 tlsnons tntetB, of land eomprlslnsr in the aggregate 
 
92 State Ck)issi:BTATioN CoMiCMSioir. 
 
 not less than one hundred and sixty acres located 
 outside the limits of any city or village, may ap- 
 ply to the state conservation commission for the 
 establishment of said lands as a wild life refuge. 
 The commission may thereupon employ such means 
 as it may deem wise to inform itself regarding the 
 premises; and if, upon inspection, investigation, 
 hearing, or otherwise, it shall appear to the satis- 
 faction of the commission that the establishment 
 of said lands as a wild life refuge will promo*te 
 the conservation of one or more useful species or 
 varieties not native within this state, it may by 
 order designate and establish the said lands as a 
 wild life refuge. 
 
 (2) Enclosure. Within thirty days after the 
 date of such order the owner or owners of the 
 said lands shall enclose the same, wherever the 
 same are not already enclosed by a fence, with a 
 single substantial wire, and shall post and main- 
 tain along the said wire or fence, at each inter- 
 yal of twenty rods, signs or notices, furnished by 
 
 he state conservation commission, proclaiming the 
 establishment of said refuge. 
 
 (3) Publication. No such order shall be ef- 
 fective until at least thirty days after the date of 
 its issue; nor unless the commission shall have 
 caused notice thereof to be given by its publica- 
 tion, once in each week for three successive weeks 
 next preceding the date of its effect. In at least one 
 newspaper published in the county embracing the 
 said lands. Thereupon the said lands shall be a 
 wild life refuge, and shall so remain for a period 
 of not less than five years, from and after the 
 date of effect stated in said order. 
 
 (4) Absolute protection. No owner of lands 
 embraced within any such wild life refuge, aad 
 BO other person whatever, shall bunt or tri^^ witb- 
 
Statutes Rexatiiso to Wild Animals. 93 
 
 In the boundaries of any wild life refuge, state 
 park, or state fish hatchery lands; nor have in his 
 possession or under his control therein any gun 
 or rifle, unless the same is unloaded and knocked 
 down or enclosed within its carrying case; but 
 nothing herein shall prohibit, prevent, or interfere 
 with the state conservation commission, or its dep- 
 uties, agents or employes, in the destruction of in- 
 jurious animals. 
 
 (5) Animals procured by commission. The 
 state conservation commission may place within 
 any such wild life refuge, for the purpose of 
 propagation, wild animals of any species or va- 
 riety. 
 
 DESTRUCTION OF INJURIOUS ANIMAIiS 
 
 29.58 Muskrats Injuring Dams. The owner or 
 lessee of any dam may in any manner capture or 
 kill muskrats at any time when said muskrats are 
 injuring or destroying such dams or the levees con- 
 nected therewith; but shall not sell, barter, or give 
 to any other person the skin of any muskrat cap- 
 tured or killed during the close season therefor. 
 
 29.59 Beaver Causing Damage. (1) Com- 
 plaint. Upon complaint in writing, by the owner 
 or lessee of any lands, to the state conservation 
 commission, that beaver are causing damage there- 
 to the commission shall employ such means as it 
 may deem wise to inquire into the matter; and 
 if, upon inspection, investigation, hearing, or oth- 
 erwise, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 
 commission that the facts stated in such complaint 
 ar^ true, it may, by written permit, authorize the 
 said owaer or lessee to capture and remove such 
 bea-yer. as hereinafter prescribed. 
 
H State Consjkbvation Commission". 
 
 (2) Supervision. No beaver shall be captured 
 or killed under such permit except only during 
 such period of time, from and after the first day 
 of January in each year, as may be limited by the 
 commission, and then only under the direct su- 
 pervision of a deputy conservation warden. 
 
 (3) Disposition of animals. The owner or les- 
 see shall capture, alive and without avoidable in- 
 jury, such number of beaver as may be designated! 
 by the commission, for delivery to zoological parka i 
 or collections or for transplantation to other lo- 
 calities within the state; all others shall be killed I 
 and skinned with care to conserve the value off 
 the skins, which shall be shipped without delay toi 
 Madison, consigned to the state conservation com-- 
 mission. 
 
 (4) Sale and disposition of proceeds. All such 
 skins shall be sold by the commission, in the man- 
 ner of a sale of confiscated game, and the pro- 
 ceeds paid into the conservation fund. 
 
 (5) In Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties. Li- 
 censes for the taking, catching or killing of beaver 
 in Price, Rusk, and Sawyer counties during the 
 open season therefor, as provided in subdivision 
 (a) of subsection (3m) of section 62.16, may be 
 issued by the conservation commission to resi- 
 dents who duly apply therefor and no person shall 
 take, catch or kill beaver in said counties without 
 procuring such a license. Said license shall cover 
 the period for the month of December in the year 
 for which the same was issued and the fee there- 
 for shall be two dollars and fifty cents for each 
 such license. No skin of any beaver taken, caught 
 or killed under said license shall be delivered, 
 transported oi shipped unless It has attached 
 thereto a distinctive tag to be prescribed and fur- 
 nishttd by th« atate conservation commission. LI- 
 
Statutkb Rtlatiwo to Wild AsmojdM, 9i 
 
 o*ns««8 shall dispose of all beaver skins ea or be- 
 fore the twentieth day of January following the 
 date of the issuance of the license and every li- 
 censee shall on or before the thirtieth day of Jan- 
 uary following the date of the issuance of his li- 
 cense return the same to the state conservation 
 commission for cancellation together with a com- 
 plete report on a blank to be furnished by the said 
 commission stating the number of beavers taken, 
 caught or killed, the name of the town in which 
 the same were taken, caught or killed, the dispo- 
 sition of the hides and the amount received there- 
 for. Any resident of Price, Rusk and Sawyer 
 counties who have suffered or is likely to suffer 
 damage because of any beaver dam on his land 
 shall notify the game warden of his district of 
 such fact. After the expiration of five days after 
 giving such notice, said resident may open said 
 dam. No resident of said county shall be allowed 
 any claim against this state for damages sustained 
 on account of beaver during the years 1917 and 
 1918. 
 
 (6) Penalty. Violations of this section shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
 dred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail not less than nine 
 months nor more than one year, or by both such 
 .fine and imprisonment. 
 
 29.595 Deer Causing Damage. Upon com- 
 plaint in writing by the owner or lessee of any 
 lands, to the state conservation commission, that 
 deer are causing damage therein the commission 
 shall inquire into the matter; and if upon inspec- 
 tion, investigation, hearing, or otherwise, it shall 
 appear to the satisfaction of the commission that 
 'he facta stated in each purh complaint are true. 
 
9€ SlATS CeilSKSVATiOn COMMISSIOli. 
 
 it may eaptnre or destroy such deer, and dispose 
 of the same as provided in subsections (3) and 
 (4) of section 29.59. 
 
 29.60 Bounties on Wolves and Foxes. (1) 
 
 Any person who shall kill any wolf cub between 
 the first day of March and the first day of No- 
 vember next following shall be entitled to a re- 
 ward of four 'dollars, or any mature wolf at any 
 time ten dollars, or any fox at any time two dol- 
 lars, to be paid by the county wherein said wolf 
 or fox was killed. By a 6iajority vote at any an- 
 nual meeting, the county board of any county may 
 increase any of said rewards in said county, but 
 no county shall pay more than six dollars for the 
 killing of any wolf cub as above described. A 
 reward for the killing of any wolf or fox shall be 
 paid out of the state treasury equal to that paid 
 by the county. 
 
 (2) Any person claiming such reward shall 
 exhibit the carcass of the animal killed, not earlier 
 than eight o'clock a. m., nor later than five o'clock 
 p. m., of any day within six days after the killing 
 thereof to the chairman of the town wherein it 
 was killed, and shall sign and deliver to him in 
 the presence of at least one subscribing witness, a 
 statement in suT)stantially the following form: 
 
 STATE OF WISCONSIN, 
 
 County of , Town of 
 
 ( 
 
 "1 
 
 'I, the undersigned, hereby declare and state 
 
 that I did personally on the day of , 
 
 19 in said town kill or cause to be killed the 
 
 animal here exhibited to the chairman of said town 
 
 and that it is the carcass of a , that I 
 
 did n«t raise or rear ©r cause to be raised or reaped 
 for me and did net in an^ way harbor the aald 
 
Statutes Reiatinq to Wild Animals. 97 
 
 animal, and I make this statement for the purpose 
 of procuring a reward therefor from the county 
 and state, and a ceitificate from said chairman 
 for a 
 
 Signed and delivered . this day of 
 
 , 19___ 
 
 In the presence of: 
 
 ., Claimant. 
 
 Thereupon said chairman shall cause to be 
 removed in his presence the scalp of said animal 
 with both ears and both of the upper eyelids en- 
 tire, and may issue a certificate to said claimant in 
 duplicate, in the following form: 
 
 STATE OF WISCONSIN, 
 County of , Town of. 
 
 V 63. 
 
 I, , chairman of said town in said 
 
 county, do certify that has this 
 
 day of , 19--, at o'clock m., 
 
 exhibited to me the carcass of a , which 
 
 he claims to have killed in said town on the 
 
 day of , 19 , and that the scalp 
 
 with both ears and both of the upper eyelids en- 
 tire of said were removed in my pretj- 
 
 ence and that he delivered to me the statement 
 in writing required by law of him to be made. 
 
 Given under my hand and witnessed this 
 
 day of , 19 
 
 In the presence of: 
 
 Chairman of the Town. 
 
 Such statement and a duplicate copy of such 
 
98 Statb Consektation Commission. 
 
 certificate shall be filed and recorded in the office 
 of the town clerk of said town within ten days 
 after the same is issued. 
 
 (3) Thereupon such claimant shall take and 
 subscribe before the chairman of the town, who is 
 hereby authorized to administer the same, the fol- 
 lowing oath: 
 
 STATE OP WISCONSIN, j 
 
 County of C 
 
 I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) 
 
 that the scalp produced by me is the scalp of a 
 
 taken and killed by me in the town of 
 
 in said county on the day of 
 
 , 19 — ,_; that I made and delivered to 
 
 the chairman of said town the statement required 
 by law, and exhibited to him the carcass of such 
 ; that the certificate of said chair- 
 man herewith produced by me was signed in my 
 
 presence and in the presence of , and 
 
 that I have not spared the life of any wolf or fox 
 within my power to kill, and that each and every 
 declaration and statement made by me in the 
 statement delivered to the chairman of said town 
 l8 true. 
 
 , Claimant. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 
 
 day of , 19 
 
 Chairman of the town of 
 
 Within twenty days after subscribing such aftt- 
 lavit, the claimant shall deliver or forward, charges 
 prepaid, to the county clerk the scalp of such ani- 
 cnal with both ears and both upper eyelids entire, 
 together with the certificate of the town chairman 
 and the affidavit of the claimant, provided for in 
 this section. Upon receipt thereof the county clerk 
 shall forthwith call into his office the register of 
 deeds. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 99 
 
 (4) Such clerk and register of deeds shall 
 cause such scalp to be destroyed in their presence, 
 and the clerk shall issue an order on the county 
 treasurer in favor nf the claimant for the amount 
 due from the county, giving his full name and post- 
 office address, and shall enter in a book the name 
 of the claimant, date of oath and amount paid by 
 said county to such claimant. The amount speci- 
 fied in such order shall be paid to the claimant by 
 the treasurer, or shall be mailed to him as directed 
 in such order. Within ten days the clerk shall 
 transmit to the secretary of state such oath of the 
 claimant together with a certificate on blanks fur- 
 nished by the secretary of state in the following 
 form: 
 
 STATE OP WISCONSIN, j 
 County of | 
 
 I, , county clerk of said county, do 
 
 certify that who subscribed the fore- 
 going affidavit, presented or forwarded to me and 
 the register of deeds at said time the scalp of a 
 
 with both ears and both upper eyelids 
 
 entire; that we caused such scalp with both ears 
 and both upper eyelids entire to be destroyed in our 
 presence before the signing of this certificate; that 
 the certificate of the chairman of the town of 
 
 is on file in the office of the county clerk; 
 
 that said county of . paid the said , 
 
 claimant, who subscribed to the said oath the 
 
 sum of dollars for the killing of said 
 
 mentioned in said oath. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 
 and affixed my official seal at , this 
 
 day of , 19 
 
 County Clerk. 
 
iOO State Conservation Commission. 
 
 On receipt of such oath and certificate by the 
 secretaiy of state, he sliall audit such claim and 
 issue his warrant for its payment. 
 
 (5) For the destruction of wolves, wildcats or 
 Ij^-nxes it is lawful to put out baits containing poi- 
 son between the first day of December and the 
 first day of March, but the same shall not be placed 
 within eighty rods of a dwelling house, and the 
 persons putting out such baits shall, before doing 
 BO, post in three public places in the town notice 
 of putting out such baits, describing the land and 
 location where such baits are placed and the date 
 when put out, and within three days after the first 
 day of March shall take up and effectively destroy 
 the same. For the failure or neglect to so post 
 such notices or to so take up and destroy said baits 
 fSe person so putting out the same shall be liable 
 for all damages resulting therefrom and shall be 
 punished as provided in the last section of this 
 chapter. The same reward shall be paid for any 
 wolf so destroyed by poison as is herein provided 
 for otherwise killing wolves. 
 
 29.61 Destruction of Other Injurious Animals; 
 Rewards. (1) The county board of any county 
 may direct that every person who shall kill any 
 crow shall be entitled to a reward of not to exceed 
 fifteen cents, or any sharpshinned or cooper's 
 hawk twenty-five cents, or any pocket gopher 
 twenty-five cents, or any streaked gopher ten cents, 
 or any English sparrow four cents, or any black- 
 bird four cents, or any rattlesnake fifty cents. 
 
 (2) Any person claiming such reward shall ex- 
 hibit the head or rattles of the animal so killed to 
 the chairman of the town or the president of the 
 village wherein it was killed and present an aflSda- 
 
Statutes Relating to Wiu) Animals. 101 
 
 vit to such president or chairman stating that said 
 head or rattles are of the animal killed by him 
 and that he has not spared the life of any such ani- 
 mal or bird within his power to kill. Such chair- 
 man or president shall then issue a certificate in 
 the following form: 
 
 STATE OF WISCONSIN ^ 
 County of f ^^• 
 
 I, , chairman of the town of 
 
 (or president of the village of ), do cer- 
 tify that has this day exhibited to me 
 
 the head (or rattles), of , which he claims 
 
 to have killed in said town (village), and that the 
 
 head (or rattles) of said__^ was (were) 
 
 destroyed in my presence, and that the said 
 
 is on presentation of this certificate 
 
 to the town clerk (village clerk), within twenty 
 days from the date hereof, entitled to an order on 
 
 the town (village) treasurer for the sum of . 
 
 dollars, to be drawn from th'^; general fund of 'said 
 town (village). 
 
 Dated this day of ,19 
 
 Chairman (President) 
 of the town (village) of 
 
 (3) The town or village clerk, respectively, 
 shall on the production of the certificate of the 
 chairman of the town, or president of the village, 
 issue to the holder thereof an order on the town 
 or village treasurer, respectively, for the amount 
 stated in said certificate. 
 
 (4) The treasurers of the various villages and 
 towns shall, at the close of their accounts on the 
 thirtieth day of October in each year certify to the 
 county clerk the amount of money expended by 
 
102 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 their respective towns and villages under the pro- 
 visions of this section. Such treasurer shall at- 
 tach to the certificate an affidavit stating that the 
 account is just and that his town or village has 
 actually expended the amount therein stated. The 
 certificate aad affidavit shall be placed on file in 
 the office of the county clerk and the account 
 shall be audited by the county board and the 
 amount thereof paid to the treasurers of the re- 
 spective towns and villages from any money in the 
 general funds of the county not otherwise appro- 
 priated. 
 
 29.62 Removal of bijurious Rough Fish. (1) 
 
 The state conservation commission is authorized 
 Lo take rough fish by means of nets, or cause the 
 same to be so taken, from any of the inland wa- 
 ters of this state other than those specified in sub- 
 section (2), whenever it shall find that such fish 
 are detrimental to, retard the propagation of, or 
 destroy game fish therein. 
 
 (2) The authority granted to the commissioM 
 by subsection (1) does not extend to Lake Kosh- 
 konong; any stream or river flowing into Green 
 Bay or Lake Michigan except that part of the Fox 
 river and its tributaries above the city of Apple- 
 ton; the Mississippi river, Lake Pepin, Lake St. 
 Croix, and the lakes, bays, bayous and sloughs 
 tributary thereto and connected therewith; and 
 any stream or river flowing into the Mississippi 
 river, within a distance of forty miles above the 
 mouth of such stream or river. 
 
 (3) All fish taken under the authority of this 
 section shall be disposed of by the commission to 
 the best interest of the state; and temporary fish 
 ponds may be created in the waters of this state 
 for the purpose of keeping such fish until the same 
 can be advantageously disposed of. 
 
ASK YOUR GUIDE 
 
 FOR HIS 
 
 LICENSE CARD 
 
 See That He Carries His 
 
 BADGE 
 
 And That It Is Licensed 
 
 BY THE 
 
 STATE 
 
104 State Consebvation Commission. 
 
 PENALTIES 
 
 29.63 General Penalty Provisions. (1) Pen- 
 alties. Any person who, for himself, or by his 
 agent, servant, or employe, or who, as agent, serv- 
 ant, or employe for another, violates any of the 
 provisions of this chapter shall be punished, re- 
 spectively, as follows: 
 
 (a) For the unlawful use of any gill net in 
 taking, catching or killing fish of any variety in 
 any waters, or for the use of any net in taking, 
 catching or killing trout of any variety in inland 
 waters, by a fine of not less than two hundred nor 
 more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 
 in the county jail not less than nine months nor 
 more than olie year, or by both such fine and im- 
 prisonment. 
 
 (b) For hunting, trapping, fishing, or clam- 
 ming without a license duly issued, whenever a 
 license therefor is required by the provisions of 
 this chapter, or for hunting, under a receipt or 
 other evidence of having filed an application, in 
 anticipation of the issuance and delivery of such 
 license, or for the violation of any provision relat- 
 ing to deer, by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in 
 the county jail not less than thirty days nor more 
 than one year, or by both such fine and imprison- 
 ment. 
 
 (c) For the violation of any provision relating 
 to game birds, by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
 more than one hundred dollars, and in addition 
 thereto five dollars for each bird affected by such 
 violation, or by imprisonment in the county jail 
 not less than thirty days nor more than six months, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 10& 
 
 (d) For any violation for which no other pen- 
 alty is prescribed, by a fine of not less than fifty 
 Bor more than one hundred dollars, or by impris- 
 onment in the county jail not less than thirty days 
 nor more than six months, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. 
 
 (2) "Person" defined. The word "person" as 
 used in this section includes natural persons, firms, 
 associations, and c6rporations. 
 
 (3) Revocation of license. Upon conviction 
 of any person for any violation under any license 
 issued to such person, such license shall be im- 
 mediately revoked and canceled, and no license 
 shall be issued to such person for a period of one 
 year thereafter. 
 
 (4) Construction of penalty provisions. No 
 penalty prescribed in any section of this chapter 
 shall be held to be diminished because the viola- 
 tion for which it is prescribed falls also within 
 the scope of a more general prohibition. 
 
 (5) Presumptions. In any prosecution under 
 this section it shall not be necessary for the state 
 to alle;?e or prove thft^the animals were not do- 
 mesticated or were not taktn for scientific pur- 
 poses, or were taken or in possession or u^der 
 control without a license or permit therefor; but 
 the person claiming that such animals were do- 
 mesticated, or were taken for scientific purposes. 
 or were taken or in possession or under control 
 under a license or permit duly issued, shall have 
 the burden of proving such fact or facts. 
 
 (6) Reward to informers. Any person other 
 than the regular employes of the state conservation 
 commission, informing of the violation of any pro- 
 vision of this chapter and assisting in the prosecu- 
 tion of the offender to conviction shall receive one- 
 third of any fine imposed and collected thereupon. 
 
106 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 False Impersonation as Deputy Conservation 
 Warden. Section 4562a. Any person who shall 
 falsely represent himself to be a deputy conserva- 
 tion warden, or who shall assume to act as such 
 without having been first duly appointed as such, 
 shall be punished by imprisonment in the county 
 jail not more than six months, or by a fine not to 
 exceed one hundred dollars. 
 
 Alteration of Hunting License. Section 4562b. 
 Any person who shall change or alter, in any man- 
 ner, a license for the pursuit, hunting or killing 
 of deer shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
 less than six months nor exceeding one year. 
 
 False Statement of Residence in Application for 
 Hunting License. Section 4562c. Any person who 
 shall make to any county clerk authorized to issue 
 licenses for the pursuit, hunting or killing of deer 
 a false statement concerning his residence, and 
 thereby obtain such a license therefor as only res- 
 idents of this state are entitled to, shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than five hundred dol- 
 lars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by im- 
 prisonment in the county jail not less than four 
 months nor more than one year, or in the state 
 prison not exceeding one year. 
 
 Section 4562(i. Any person who shall break, 
 remove or interfere with any seal or tag attached 
 to any animal, carcass, article or other thing by 
 the state conservation commission, or who shall 
 meddle or interfere with any animal, carcass, arti- 
 cle or other thing with such seal or tag attached, 
 or who shall counterfeit any such seal or tag, at- 
 tached or unattached, shall be punished by a fine 
 
Statutes Rt:LATi>o to Wild Ammals. 107 
 
 of not less than two hundred nor more than five 
 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
 jail not less than nine months nor more than one 
 year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Taking Carrier Pigeon. Section 45 6 5&. Any 
 person who shall take, catch, kill, impede in its 
 progress or otherwise interfere with any carrier 
 or homing pigeon shall be punished by a fine of 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dol- 
 lars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not 
 more than three months. 
 
 Hunting on Lands of Another. Section 4565(!, 
 Any person who shall enter into any growing or 
 standing grain not his own, with firearms or per- 
 mit his dog to enter into any such grain, without 
 the permission of the owner or occupant of the 
 land on which such grain is situate or any person 
 who shall, without permission of the owner, hunt 
 or shoot on the premises of another inclosed by a 
 fence and used as a pasture for stock, or shall hunt 
 or shoot upon any other land of another after 
 being notified not to hunt or shoot thereon, shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars 
 nor more than ten dollars and in default of pay- 
 ment thereof, shall be imprisoned in the county 
 jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty 
 days; provided, that this section shall not limit 
 or in any way affect civil liability on account of 
 such trespass. Any owner or occupant of land 
 may give the notice provided for in this section 
 by maintaining signboards, at least one foot square, 
 containing such notice upon at least every forty 
 acres of the premises sought to be protected, in 
 at least two conspicuous places, or by giving per- 
 sonal, written or verbal notice. 
 
108 State Conservation Commissimt. 
 
 Taking Frogs on Lands of Another. Section 
 
 4565d??t. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
 take, catch, kill or have in his possession any frogs 
 or parts of frogs taken from lands owned by 
 another without the consent of the owner of 
 said lands, and any person violating the pro- 
 visions of this section shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more 
 than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail not less than fifteen days nor more 
 than sixty days. 
 
 Removal of Live Fish or Fish Eggs. Section 
 4567&. Any person who shall come into thir= 
 state and remove fish eggs or fish of any variety 
 therefrom while the fish are alive, without hav- 
 ing a permit from the state conservation com- 
 mission to do so, shall be fined not less than fifty 
 dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not 
 less than ten days nor more than thirty days. 
 
 Unlawful Fishing by Employe of Conservation 
 Conmiission. Section 4567c. It shall be unlaw- 
 ful for any employe of the state conservation 
 comjnission, while engaged in catching wild fish 
 from the public waters for the purpose of arti- 
 ficial propagation, to have in his possession any 
 other kinds of fish than those he has been directed 
 to take by the commission or its agent, duly auth- 
 orized in writing. For violation of this section 
 the offender shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty 
 dollars and be removed from any office or posi- 
 tion he may hold under or by the authority of 
 such commission. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. lOJ^ 
 
 Section 4567&. Any person who shall enter 
 upon the grounds of any state fish hatchery for 
 the purpose of unlawfully killing or taking any 
 fish therefrom shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than one hundred dollars nor more than two 
 hundred dollars or by improvement not less than 
 thirty days nor more than sixty days. 
 
 Killing Fish in State Hatchery. Section 4567e. 
 Any person who shall unlawfully and without 
 proper authority kill, take or catch any fish from 
 any waters or grounds belonging to or connected 
 with any state fish hatchery shall be punished as 
 provided in section 4415. 
 
 Section 4567/. Any person who shall injure 
 any fish, or in any manner interfere harmfully 
 with the ponds, streams, troughs or other prop- 
 erty of the state fish hatchery, without lawful 
 authority so to do, shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars; but this section shall in no wise 
 change or affect any liability for arson or other 
 burnings, nor burglary or other breakings,' nor 
 larceny of any property. 
 
 Summary Arrest. Section 4567fir. The person 
 in charge of any fish hatchery is hereby em- 
 powered and required summarily and without 
 process to arrest any person, who has violated 
 the provisions of either of the three preceding 
 sections, found upon the grounds of any state 
 fish hatchery, and to deliver such person forth- 
 with to some proper ofiicer for prosecution. 
 
 Section 20.205. All moneys, except fines, ac- 
 cruing to the state by reason of any provision of 
 
110 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 chapter 29 of the statutes, or otherwise received 
 or collected by each and every person for or in 
 behalf of the state conservation commission, if 
 not payable into the forest reserve fund, shall 
 constitute the "conservation fund" and shall be 
 paid, within one week after receipt, into the state 
 treasury and credited to said fund. No money 
 shall be expended or paid from the conservation 
 fund except in pursuance of an appropriation by 
 law; but any unappropriated surplus in said fund 
 may be expended subject to the approval of the 
 governor, secretary of state, and state treasurer, 
 for additional equipment, new buildings, new 
 hatcheries, or hatchery ponds, property improve- 
 ments, increasing the warden force at any par- 
 ticular period, or any other similar special pur- 
 pose except road work or improvement work on 
 the state parks. 
 
 FEDERAIi LAWS 
 
 Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds 
 
 All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, 
 snipe, plover, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and 
 all other migratory game and insectivorous birds 
 which in their northern and southern migrations 
 pass through or do not remain permanently the 
 entire year within the borders of any stati or 
 territory, shall hereafter be deemed to be within 
 the custody and protection of the Government 
 of the United States, and shall not be destroyea 
 or taken contrary to regulations hereinafter pro- 
 vided therefor. 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. Ill 
 
 The Department of Agriculture Is hereby auth- 
 orized and directed to adopt suitable regulations 
 to give effect to the previous paragraph by pre- 
 scribing and fixing closed seasons, having due re- 
 gard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, 
 and times and line of migratory flight, thereby 
 enabling the department to select and designate 
 suitable districts for different portions of tho 
 country, and it shall be unlawful to shoot or by 
 any device kill or seize and capture migratory 
 birds within the protection of this law during 
 said closed seasons, and any person who shall 
 violate any of the provisions or regulations of 
 this law for the protection of migratory birds 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
 fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more 
 than 90 days, or both, in the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
 The Department of Agriculture, after the prep- 
 aration of said regulations, shall cause the same 
 to be made public, and shall allow a period of 
 three months in which said regulations may be 
 examined and considered before final adoption, 
 permitting, when deemed proper, public hearings 
 thereon, and after final adoption shall cause the 
 same to be engrossed and submitted to the Pres- 
 ident of the United States for approval: Provided 
 however, That nothing h-erein contained shall he 
 deemed to affect or interfere with the local laws 
 af the states and territories for the protection of 
 ttonmigratory game or other birds resident and 
 breeding within their borders, nor to prevent the 
 itat€s and territories from enacting laws and reg- 
 tlations to promote and render efficient the reg- 
 ulations of the Department of Agriculture pro- 
 rided under this statute. 
 
112 Stats ConsKsvATioN Couuimnmi. 
 
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 Federal Ren^ations for Protection of Migratowji 
 
 Birds. 
 
 On October 1st, 1913, the president gave hlii 
 approval to certain regulations for the protection 
 of migratory game and insectivorous birds that 
 had been adopted and promulgated by the U. S. 
 Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Weeks- 
 McLean Migratory Bird Law. These regulations si 
 became effective at once and have superseded i 
 all state legislation, so far as closed seasons on 
 migratory game and insectivorous birds are con- 
 cerned. I 
 
 The regulations are to be enforced by the fed- !i 
 
 it 
 eral government with the cooperation of the*: 
 
 states; violations are triable only in the federal 1' 
 
 courts, and prosecutions may be brought at any ! 
 
 time within three years of the date of the offense. ! 
 
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 Open Season Under Federal Regulations. I 
 
 Water-fowl, rails, coots, gallinules, plover, jack- | 
 ■nipe, and yellow-legs, in Wisconsin: September i 
 15 to December 31. \ 
 
 Shooting prohibited between sunset and 30 ; 
 minutes before sunrise. i 
 
 Consult State laws. A state date governs when 
 It opens the season later or closes it earlier than 
 the Federal Regulation 
 
 The liacey Law. ' 
 
 Section 241. The importation into the United 
 States, or any territory or district thereof, of the 
 mongoose, the so-called "flying foxes" or frui^ 
 bats, the English sparrow, the starling, and such 
 other birds and animals as the Secretary of Ag- 
 
Statutes Relating to Wild Animals. 113 
 
 riculture may from time to time declare to be 
 injurious to the interests of agriculture or hor- 
 ticulture, is hereby prohibited; and all such birds 
 and animals shall, upon arrival at any port of 
 the United States, be destroyed or returned at 
 the expense of the owner. No person shall im- 
 port into the United States or into any territory 
 or district thereof, any foreign wild animal or 
 bird, except under special permit from the Sec- 
 retary of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing 
 in this section shall restrict the importation of 
 natural-history specimens for museums or scientif- 
 ic collections, or of certain cage birds, such as 
 domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds 
 as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. 
 The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized 
 to make regulations for carrying into effect the 
 provisions of this section. 
 
 Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any 
 person to deliver to any common carrier for trans- 
 portation, or for any common carrier to transport 
 from any State, territory, or District of the United 
 States, to any other state, territory, or District 
 thereof, any foreign animals or birds, the impor- 
 tation of which is prohibited, or the dead bodies 
 or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, 
 where such animals or birds have been killed or 
 shipped in violation of the laws of the state, ter- 
 ritory, or district in which the same were killed, 
 9r from which they were shipped: Provided, that 
 nothing herein shall prevent the transportation of 
 any dead birds or animals killed during the season 
 when the same may be lawfully captured, and the 
 export of which is not prohibited by law in the 
 state, territory, or district in which the same are 
 captured or killed: Provided further, That nothing 
 
114 State Conservation Commission. 
 
 herein shall prevent the importation, transpor- 
 tation, or sale of birds or bird plumage, manu- 
 factured from the feathers of barnyard fowls. 
 
 Section 243. All packages containing the dead 
 bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game 
 animals, or game or other wild birds, when ship- 
 ped in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be 
 plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and 
 address of the shipper, and the nature of the con- 
 tents, be readily ascertained on an inspection of 
 the outside of such package. 
 
 Section 244. For each evasion or violation of 
 any provision of the three sections last preceding, 
 the shipper shall be fined not more than two hun- 
 dred dollars; the consignee knowingly receiving 
 such articles so shipped and transported in viola- 
 tion of said sections shall be fined not more than 
 two hundred dollars; and the carrier knowingly 
 carrying or transporting the same in violation of 
 said sections shall be fined not more than two 
 hundred dollars. 
 
PREVENT FOREST FIRES 
 
 The Conservation Commission is doing its 
 to prevent forest fires, but it needs the hej 
 every person who goes into the woods for bufii 
 or pleasure to make its work effective. , 
 
 The Danger from Forest Fires Cannot be ] 
 inated without the Cooperation o<f Every Ci 
 of the State. 
 
 IP YOU ARE A GUIDE, the burning of fq 
 where you take parties for pleasure, n 
 the loss of your source of employment^ 
 
 IP YOU ARE A CAMPER, a single bad fore^ 
 may destroy the attractive features of 
 favorite camp site. 
 
 IP YOU ARE A FISHERMAN OR HUNTER, 
 
 sport may be spoiled by the burning ovi 
 the forest you visit every year. j 
 
 FIRE PREVENTION MEANS 1 
 
 Increased talue. of property j 
 
 Flourishing industries j 
 
 More fish and game ] 
 
 Beautiful scenery i 
 
 Freer use of forest land for all. I 
 
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 DON'T leave burning cigars, cigarettes orj 
 
 ashes where they may set fire to inflami| 
 
 material. 
 DON'T leave your camp fire until you are M 
 
 LUTEIiY SURE it is out. 
 DON'T set fires to clear land or burn brush il 
 
 . times. 
 PUT OUT Alili FIRES YOU SEE IF YOU 
 If the fire is too large for you to put out 
 notify .the nearest Conservation warden, AT 
 By putting out small fires you can preveni 
 ones. 
 
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