hunting license duly issued to him or her under the provisions of this Act.

It shall be unlawful for any transportation company or common carrier, or any agent or employee thereof, to receive for shipment or transport any of the birds or game protected by this Act unless the same shall be received for shipment, carried and delivered pursuant to the provisions of section 9-A, and then only during the season or period of time which the laws of this State shall fix as the open season during which such birds or game may be lawfully killed.

It shall be unlawful for any transportation company or common carrier to transport into this State from any point without the State, any bird or part of bird, or any game animal protected by the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, that it shall be lawful to transport through this State, or to points within this State, from points without this State, deer lawfully killed and lawfully shipped.

Any person, corporation, company or common carrier, or any agent or employee thereof, violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and cost of such suit for each offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid.

Nothing in the provisions of this section shall be construed to prohibit or prevent the shipment of birds and game at any time for scientific or propagation purposes by persons holding certificates granted under the provision of this Act.

Nothing in the provisions of this section shall be construed to prohibit or prevent the shipment and sale of rabbits during the open season thereof.

§ 9-A. PERMIT TO SHIP GAME.] The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to grant to holders of resident and non-resident hunting licenses permits to ship game. In order to obtain such permit the applicant for the same shall fill out a blank application to be furnished by the commission, stating name, age, occupation, place of residence and number of hunting license: further stating that the game to be shipped under such permit shall be consigned by and to the applicant at one destination only, and that such game is not to be shipped for commercial purposes; said application shall be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant before any person authorized by law to administer oaths, and shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar ($1).

The holder of such permit may offer for shipment and have transported not to exceed one hundred and eighty (180) game birds and game animals in not more than three (3) separate shipments during the period of time covered by his hunting license: And, provided, that such shipments shall not be made oftener than once in four days.

Upon offering such game for shipment the shipper shall present to the agent representing the transportation company or common carrier, his hunting license and shipping permit, whereupon the agent shall endorse in ink upon the shipping permit, in spaces provided therefor, the name of the station from which shipment is made, the destination,

which must correspond with the address in the permit, the date, the number of each variety of game in the shipment, and his signature. If a permit is presented with a consignment of game for shipment, and such endorsements show that the quantity of such game, or number of shipments, which may lawfully be shipped by the holder of said permit in a single season has already been shipped on said permit, it shall be unlawful for any transportation company or common carrier, or agent or employee thereof, to accept the same for shipment.

Game birds and game animals shipped in the manner prescribed by this section shall be open to inspection and shall have firmly fixed and attached thereto a tag on which shall be stated the name of the consignor, (who, under the provisions of this section, is also the consignee), the destination, the number of permit, the number of hunting license, and the quantity of each variety of game in shipment.

Permits issued under the provision of this section shall expire on the first day of April next succeeding date of issue, and shall be returned to the commission within three months after date of expiration. Persons to whom permits have been issued and who fail to return them to the commission shall not be entitled to any such permit thereafter. No more than one permit shall be issued to a person during any one year.

Any person, corporation, company or common carrier, or any agent or employee thereof, violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of suit for each offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid.

§ 14. Certificates may be granted by the commission to any properly accredited person of the age of eighteen years and upward permitting the holder thereof to collect birds, their nests and eggs for strictly scientific purposes only. In order to obtain such certificate the applicant for the same must present to the commission written testimonials from two well-known scientific men, certifying to the good character and fitness of said applicant to be entrusted with such privilege and must pay to the commission a license fee of five dollars ($5.00) and must file with said commission a properly executed bond in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) signed by two responsible citizens of the State as sureties. This bond shall be forfeited to the State and the certificate become void upon proof that the holder of such certificate has killed any bird or taken the nest or eggs of any bird for other than strictly scientific purposes, and shall be further subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00).

The certificate authorized by this section shall be in force until the first day of June following date of issue, and shall not be transferable.

§ 21. For the purpose of preventing unauthorized persons from killing game and birds, no person or persons shall at any time hunt, pursue or kill with gun, rabbits or any of the wild animals, fowl or birds that are protected during any part of the year without first having procured a license so to do, and then only during the respective periods. of the year when it shall be lawful. Said license shall be procured from

any county, city or village clerk in the following manner, to-wit: The applicant shall fill out a blank application to be furnished by the commission to the clerk of each county, city or village stating name, age, occupation and place of residence of applicant, place of birth, if a naturalized citizen, the date of the naturalization papers and the court by which issued, if a minor born beyond the jurisdiction of the United States, the date of the naturalization papers of the parent or parents and the court by which issued if any; the fact of having declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States with the date of such declaration: Provided, however, that such declaration was made at least two (2) years prior to said application for license, and the court in which such declaration is filed, said application shall, be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant before said county, city or village clerk, and any applicant who shall wilfully, and corruptly swear falsely shall be deemed guilty of perjury and punished accordingly, and it is hereby expressly provided that if said county, city or village clerk, fails to administer the oath as herein provided or antedates any license, he shall be subject to a fine herein provided for each and every offense the same to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. And said applicant if a non-resident of the State of Illinois or if not a citizen of the United States or not having declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States whether a resident of the State of Illinois or not shall pay to the county clerk the sum of ten dollars as a license fee, together with the sum of fifty cents as the fee of said county clerk for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing said license; and if a resident of the State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, shall pay to the county, city or village clerk, the sum of seventy-five cents as a license fee, together with the sum of twenty-five cents as the fee of said county, city or village clerk for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing said license. Said license shall bear the signature of the commission and the seal of the county, city or village in which the same is issued and be countersigned by the said clerk. And such license, if a non-resident, is hereby authorized to take from the State. not to exceed in the aggregate fifty birds of all kinds killed by himself or herself which shall be carried openly for inspection, together with his or her license.

Every license issued shall be signed by the licensee in ink, and as aforesaid, shall entitle the person to whom issued to hunt, pursue or kill game or rabbits within this State at any time when it shall be lawful to hunt, pursue or kill such game, and no person to whom a license has been issued shall be entitled to hunt, pursue or kill game or rabbits in this State without at the time of such hunting, pursuing and killing of game or rabbits he or she shall have such license in his or her name and upon his or her person ready to exhibit the same for inspection, and such license shall be void after the first day of April sext succeeding its issue: Provided, that the owner or owners of lands, their children, or tenants in actual residence upon the land shall have the right to hunt and kill game on such lands of which he or they are the bona fide owners or tenants during the season when it is lawful to kill game without procuring such residence license,

Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid, but such imprisonment shall not exceed thirty days for each offense; or such person may be proceeded against in an action of debt in the name of the People of the State of Illinois for the recovery of the penalty herein prescribed.

§ 21a. The commission shall have the power and authority to establish game and bird reservations or refuges in any county in the State where it shall be deemed necessary for the protection and propagation of game, and as a refuge or sanctuary for song and insectiverous birds, the land for such reservations to be leased at a nominal rental of one dollar per year for each parcel. On such reservations the commission may have planted in suitable grain for bird and game food, not to exceed five acres for each 1,000-acre reservation, and for such parcels as are so planted the commission may, if required so to do, pay a rental not to exceed the usual and customary rent of similar land in the vicinity or locality.

It shall be unlawful to hunt, trap, or ensnare in any way any game or birds within such reservation or to take or destroy the nests or the eggs of any wild birds or game in such refuges or reservations; and any person guilty of a violation of this section shall be subject for each offense to a fine of not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars and costs of suit and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs are paid: Provided, That such imprisonment shall not exceed ten days.

§ 22. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish in any waters under the jurisdiction of this State with seine, dip net, gill net, pound net, hoop net, fyke net, basket or trap net, except as hereinafter provided, without first obtaining a license so to do: Provided, that the owner or owners, their children, or the tenants of any land on which there is any lake, pond, slough or other water, wholly within the premises so owned or controlled and not connected with any open stream or extending beyond their jurisdiction, may take, catch or kill any fish in the manner prescribed by law without procuring such a license. Each resident of this State shall pay for each license the following amounts respectively:

(a) For each one hundred (100) yards of seine, or less (except minnow seines) five ($5) dollars.

(b) For each dip net, one ($1) dollar.

(c) For each hoop net, fifty (50) cents; fyke net one ($1) dollar; basket or trap net, fifty (50c) cents.

(d) For each steam tug used in operating gill nets or pound nets, twenty-five ($25) dollars.

(e) For each gasoline launch used in operating gill or pound nets, fifteen ($15) dollars.

(f) For each sail boat, or row boat used in operating gill or pound nets, ten ($10) dollars.

Each non-resident of this State shall pay for each such license the following amounts respectively:

(a) For each one hundred yards of seine or less (except minnow seines), ten ($10) dollars.

(b) For each dip net, two ($2) dollars.

(c) For each hoop or fyke net, two ($2) dollars.

(d) For each steam tug used in operating gill nets or pound nets, two hundred ($200) dollars.

(e) For each gasoline launch used in operating gill nets or pound nets, fifty ($50) dollars.

(f) For each sail boat or row boat used in operating gill nets or pound nets, thirty ($30) dollars. No license issued under the provisions of this section shall be transferred.

§ 24. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct a wholesale fish market for the purpose of buying and selling and shipping fish, or as a wholesale dealer to buy and sell any fish caught or taken in the waters under the jurisdiction of this State without procuring a license. so to do. Such license may be procured from the city, village or county clerk upon the payment to such city, village or county clerk of a license fee of ten (10) dollars, together with the sum of fifty (50) cents as the fee of the clerk issuing such license. Such license shall be signed, sealed and authenticated as other licenses required by this Act. Each license issued under the provisions of this section shall entitle the person named therein to ship any fish authorized under this Act to be sold and shipped which are caught in the waters under the jurisdiction of this State during the time when it is lawful to catch such fish and to conduct a fish market for the purpose of buying and selling for shipment fish authorized under this Act to be bought and sold and which were caught in the waters under the jurisdiction of this State during the time when it is lawful to catch such fish, and to buy and sell such fish as a wholesale dealer, until the first day of May next following its issuance, and no license shall be transferred.

All licenses granted under this section shall expire on the first day of May of each year.

It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, steamboat company, or common carrier, to receive from any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and shipping fish as herein provided any fish caught in the waters under the jurisdiction of this State for shipment unless the person so tendering such for shipment has obtained a license authorizing such person to ship fish in accordance with the provisions of this section.

All fish found in the possession of the holder of such license which are of illegal kinds, sizes, or weights, are hereby declared to be contraband, and may be seized and disposed of by any member of the commission, any warden or deputy warden.

§ 25. The commission shall have power and authority to set aside, at its discretion, such waters within the jurisdiction of this State as they may judge best as State fish preserves, in which it shall be unlawful to fish with any device except hooks and lines. The commission shall post such waters at the outlet, and at highway crossings of the same, by conspicuous notice, and shall publish such notice once in a newspaper