(c) To set, place or use a seine in such manner as to obstruct mo than one-half the width of any stream, river, lake, slough, bayou or oth water course.

(d) To use or operate, or attempt to use or operate, a seine more than two hundred (200) yards in length, without the use an operation of a back-stop, and in the use of such a seine and back-stop th seine shall not be drawn into waters of less than two (2) feet in dept (e) To use or operate, or attempt to use or operate, a seine more than two hundred (200) yards in length, except under the person supervision and control of an officer or employee of the Departmen Due notice shall be given the Department or some one of its officers employees of the time and place when a seine of more than tw hundred (200) yards in length will be used or operated.

(f) To use or operate, or attempt to use or operate, a seine of an length in any waters while the same are covered with ice.

§ 28. ILLEGAL FISHING DEVICES AND METHODS OF FISHING 0 KILLING FISH.] It shall be unlawful:

(a) To use or operate, or attempt to use or operate, in the takin or catching of any fish, a trammel net, a snare, a spear, a gig, a grain firearms of any kind, or a jack or artifical light of any kind, except suc as may be used strictly for illuminating purposes and not for the purpos of luring or attracting fish.

(b) To catch, take or kill, or attempt to catch, take or kill, an fish by the use of lime, acid, medical, chemical or mechanical compound or dope of any medicated drug or any coculus induces or fish berry or any dynamite, or giant powder, nitro glycerine or other explosive.

(c) To have erected or use while fishing on or through ice, any house, shed, tent or shanty or other structure so constructed as to wholly, or in part, exclude the daylight, or which may be used for the purpose of concealment.

(d) To catch, take or kill, in any manner or by any means, any fish in, or from any water in any quarry, quarry hole, natural or arti ficial lake, fish pond or reservoir, or other artificial or natural depression. without the consent of the owner or the person in charge thereof.

(e) To catch, take or kill in any manner, or by any means, or to attempt to catch, take or kill in any manner or by any means, anv fish within one hundred feet of any dam wholly or partly crossing any stream or any other body of water.

(b) FROGS, MUSSELS AND TURTLES.

$ 29. FROGS.] It shall be unlawful:

To catch, take or kill, or attempt so to do, or to buy, sell or barter, or offer to buy, sell or barter, or to ship, offer for shipment or receive for shipment, or for any commercial institution, commission house, restaurant or cafe keeper or fish dealer, to have in possession, bull frogs of more than one-quarter pound in weight, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of July, both inclusive, of each year.

$ 30. MUSSELS.] It shall be unlawful:

(a) To operate, or attempt to operate, more than one boat in taking, catching or killing, or attempting to take, catch or kill mussels

for commercial purposes, except that one additional boat for towing purposes only may be used, when no apparatus for taking, catching or killing mussels is used or kept thereon.

(b) To have in possession, while engaged in taking, catching or killing mussels, or attempting so to do, for commercial purposes, more than two crowfoot bars or more than one dredge, or to use or have in possession a crowfoot bar of more than sixteen feet in length, or a dredge, the length of the opening of which is more than three feet.

(c) To take, catch or kill, or attempt so to do, buy, sell or barter, or offer to buy, sell or barter, or for any commercial institution, or fish dealer to have in possession, mussels of less than two inches in their greatest dimension, and all undersized mussels shall be culled and returned to the waters from which taken, without unnecessary injury.

§ 31. DEFINITIONS.] (a) "Mussels" shall mean and embrace the pearly, fresh water mussel, or clam, or naiad and the shell thereof.

(b) "Crow-foot bar" shall mean a bar of any material operating a series of hooks designed to catch, or adapted for the catching of mussels by the insertion of such hooks between the shells thereof.

(e) "Dredge" shall mean any implement of capture, which is adapted for dragging the bottoms of waters and is operated with or without the aid of mechanical power, except a crow-foot bar.

(d) "Commercial purposes" shall mean and be presumed to include the taking, catching or killing, or attempting to take, catch or kill mussels or having mussels in possession, unless the contrary is

proven.

$32. TURTLES.] It shall be unlawful:

To catch, take or kill turtles with an upper shell of less than ten inches in length, measuring from the extreme ends thereof, and all undersized turtles caught or taken shall be immediately returned to the waters from which taken, without unnecessary injury.

ARTICLE 4.

ANIMALS.

$33. DEER.] It shall be unlawful:

To hunt, kill, take or destroy, or to attempt to hunt, kill, take or destroy any wild deer in the State until the 10th day of November, A. D. 1925.

$34. RABBITS.] It shall be unlawful:

(a) To hunt, kill, take or destroy, or to attempt to hunt, kill, take or destroy rabbits, except between the 1st day of November and the 31st day of January (both inclusive) of the succeeding year.

(b) For any person to kill, in any one day, in excess of fifteen

rabbits.

(c) To buy, sell or barter, or offer to buy, sell or barter, or for any commercial institution, commission house, restaurant or cafe keeper, to have rabbits in possession, except between the 1st day of November and the 31st day of January (both inclusive) of the succeeding year,

whether killed or taken within or without the State, or lawfully or unlawfully killed or taken.

$ 35. SQUIRRELS.] It shall be unlawful:

(a) To hunt, kill, take or destroy, or attempt to hunt, kill, take or destroy squirrels except between the 1st day of July and the 1st day of December, both inclusive, of each year.

(b) For any person to kill, in any one day, in excess of ten squirrels.

(c) For any person to have in his or her possession, at any one time, in excess of twenty squirrels.

(d) To buy, sell or barter, or offer to buy, sell or barter, or for any commercial institution, commission house, restaurant or or cafe keeper, to have squirrels in possession, whether killed or taken within or without the State, or lawfully or unlawfully killed or taken.

§ 36. FUR-BEARING ANIMALS (Raccoons, minks, muskrats, skunks, opossums, foxes and otters).] It shall be unlawful:

(a) To hunt, kill, take, trap or destroy, or attempt to hunt, kill, take, trap or destroy any of the fur-bearing animals of the State, namely: Raccoons, minks, muskrats, skunks, opossums, foxes or otters, except between the 1st day of November and the 15th day of March (both inclusive) of the following year.

(b) For any person to have in his or her possession the green hide of any fur-bearing animal, except between the 1st day of November and the 25th day of March (both inclusive) of the succeeding year.

(c) To disturb, mutilate or destroy the house or den of any fur-bearing animal, or to cut down or into any tree containing the den of any fur-bearing animal, or to destroy or molest the house or den of any otter or muskrat, except where such house or den obstructs a public or private ditch or water course.

(d) To use spears, or any like device, in the hunting or taking of fur-bearing animals, or to use explosives, chemicals or mechanical devices, or smokers of any kind to drive fur-bearing animals out of their holes, dens or houses.

$37. FERRETS, USE OF.] It shall be unlawful:

(a) For any person to hunt, kill, take or destroy, or attempt to hunt, kill, take or destroy, rabbits, squirrels or any fur-bearing animal with, through the use of or by the aid of a ferret.

(b) To place a ferret in any hole or opening in the ground, a stone wall, log, or hollow tree where rabbits, squirrels or fur-bearing animals may be found, or for any person to have a ferret in his or her possession or control in a field or forest, or in any vehicle on the highways going to or from hunting territory.

$38. UNLAWFUL METHODS OF HUNTING.] It shall be unlawful: (a) To hunt, kill, take or destroy, or attempt to hunt, kill, take or destroy game birds, rabbits, squirrels, or fur-bearing animals from any automobile or vehicle of any kind propelled by mechanical power, by the use of the lights thereof or any light used from such vehicle.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to trap or hunt with a gun or a dog, or allow a dog to hunt within or upon the land of an

ether, or upon waters flowing over or standing on the land of another, without first obtaining permission so to do from the owner, agent or occupant of such land, and it shall be further unlawful for any person to wantonly or carelessly injure or destroy, in any manner whatsoever, any real or personal property on the land of another while engaged in trapping or hunting thereon.

(c) NON-RESIDENT FISHING LICENSES, FISHING DEVICE LICENSES, MUSSEL LICENSES, FISH MARKET AND DEALERS' LICENSES. (d) MISCELLANEOUS LICENSES AND PERMITS.

(a) HUNTING LICENSES.

§ 39. UNLAWFUL TO HUNT WITHOUT.] It shall be unlawful: To hunt, take, pursue or kill with a gun, or by any other means, any of the game, wild animals, frogs, wild fowls or birds protected or named in this Act, without first having procured a license so to do, and then only during the respective periods of the year when it shall be lawful.

$40. CONDITIONS.] Hunting licenses will be issued to no person under the age of sixteen years, without the written request of the father or mother or legally constituted guardian of such person.

Hunting licenses will be issued (a) to residents of the State of Illinois and citizens of the United States; (b) to non-residents of the State of Illinois, but citizens of the United States; (c) to foreign born. persons who have procured their final naturalization papers, and to the minor children of such persons.

$41. APPLICATIONS AND FEES.] Applications for hunting licenses shall be made to any county, city or village clerk; shall be executed and Sworn to and shall set forth the name of the applicant, his or her age, height, weight and color of hair, occupation, place of residence and place of birth, and if a naturalized citizen, the date of final naturalization papers and the court by which issued, and if a minor child of a naturalized citizen, the date of the final naturalization papers of his or her father and the court by which such papers were issued. If the applicant is a naturalized citizen, or the child of a naturalized citizen, the final naturalization papers of the applicant, or in the case of a minor, of the applicant's father, must be submitted to the clerk to whom the application is made.

The fee for a hunting license for a resident of the State of Illinois shall be seventy-five cents and clerk's fee of twenty-five cents for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing the license; for a nonresident of the State of Illinois, the fee shall be ten dollars and clerk's fee of fifty cents for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing the license.

All hunting licenses shall expire upon the 31st day of March of each year.

§ 42. WHEN LICENSES NOT REQUIRED.] The owners and tenants of farm lands and their children actually residing on such lands, shall have the right to hunt, take and kill game, wild animals, frogs, wild fowls and birds of the kind permitted to be hunted, taken or killed by the provisions hereof, upon such lands and waters thereon, of which they. or their parents, are the bona fide owners or tenants, during the seasons when it is lawful so to do, without procuring hunting licenses.

The owners and tenants of lands may destroy any wild animal or wild bird, other than a game bird, when such wild animal or wild bird is destroying property upon his or her land, but no poison or poisonous substance shall be used as a means of destroying such wild animal or bird.

(b) TRAPPING LICENSES.

§ 43. UNLAWFUL TO TRAP WITHOUT.] It shall be unlawful: To trap or attempt to trap any of the fur-bearing animals protected by this Act, without first having procured a license so to do.

844. CONDITIONS.] Trapping licenses will be issued to no person under the age of sixteen years without the written request of the father or mother or legally constituted guardian of such person.

Trapping licenses will be issued (a) to residents of the State of Illinois and citizens of the United States; (b) to non-residents of the State of Illinois, but citizens of the United States; (c) to foreign born persons who have procured their final naturalization papers, and to the minor children of such persons.

§ 45. APPLICATIONS AND FEES.] Applications for trapping licenses shall be made to any county, city or village clerk; shall be executed and sworn to, and shall set forth the name of the applicant, his or her age, height, weight and color of hair, occupation, place of residence and place of birth, and if a naturalized citizen, the date of fina' naturalization papers and the court by which issued, and if a minor child of a naturalized citizen, the date of the final naturalization papers of his or her father and the court by which such papers were issued. If the applicant is a naturalized citizen, or the child of a naturalized citizen, the final naturalization papers of the applicant, or in the case of a minor, of the applicant's father, must be submitted to the clerk to whom the application is made.

The fee for a trapping license for a resident of the State of Illinois shall be seventy-five cents, and clerk's fee of twenty-five cents for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing the license; for a nonresident of the State of Illinois, the fee shall be ten dollars and clerk's fee of fifty cents for administering the oath to the applicant and issuing the license.

All trapping licenses shall expire upon the 15th of March of each year.

$ 46. REPORT OF SALES AND SHIPMENTS.] It shall be the duty of each and every holder of a trapping license to make a report to the Department, within thirty days after the expiration of license, upon