State game warden. Duties Report. Expenses. CHAPTER CXXXVII. [H. B. No. 380.] FOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME ANIMALS, BIRDS AND AN ACT for the protection of game animals and birds, song birds Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. There is hereby created the office of state game warden, and the state fish commissioner shall be ex officio such officer. SEC. 2. The state game warden shall have full control and supervision over all county game wardens appointed in pursuance to any statute now existing on the statute books of this state, and may have the power to appoint said county game wardens special deputy fish commissioners for the county in which said county game wardens may reside and shall have general supervision over the enforcement and execution of all laws of this state for the protection of game animals, game birds, song birds and game fish, and shall have all the authority and powers as a peace officer conferred on county game wardens by any law of this state. SEC. 3. The said state game warden in connection with his report as said fish commissioner, shall annually, on December first, report to the governor of this state a full account of his actions as said state game warden; also the operation and result of all laws. pertaining to the protection of game animals, game birds and game fish. SEC. 4. The expenses of the county game wardens. may be paid in the discretion of the state game warden and state fish commissioner for all services performed by them as deputy fish commissioners, upon the request or direction of said state game warden and said state fish commissioner, and said expenses when so audited and allowed are made payable out of the fish com- Passed the House March 2, 1899. CHAPTER CXXXVIII. [H. B. No. 296.] AS TO GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS. AN ACT to amend sections 2, 3, 12, 13 and 15 of an act entitled "An act for the protection of game animals and birds, and song birds, and to define and punish as misdemeanors all violations thereof, vesting the county commissioners with authority to appoint game wardens, defining their duties, fixing their compensation, and defining the duties of certain county, precinct and municipal peace officers, and repealing sections 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 271, 272 of the penal code of the State of Washington," approved March 11, 1897. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section two of an act entitled "An Amendment. act for the protection of game animals and birds, and song birds, and to define and punish as misdemeanors all violations thereof, vesting the county commissioners with authority to appoint game wardens, defining their duties, fixing their compensation, and defining the duties of certain county, precinct and municipal peace officers, and repealing sections 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 271, 272 of the penal code of the State of Washington," is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 2. Every person who shall, within the closed season. State of Washington, at any time between the fifteenth day of December of any year and the fifteenth day of September of the following year, hunt, pursue, take, kill, injure or destroy any deer, shall be guilty of a dogs prohibited. misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. That section three of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 3. Every person who Hunting with shall at any time pursue, take, kill, injure or destroy any moose, elk, caribou, antelope, mountain sheep or goat, or deer with dogs, or knowingly allow dogs to chase or destroy said animals, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply in the counties of the state lying westward of the eastern boundary of the counties of Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, King, Pierce, Lewis and Skamania, between the first day of October and the first day of November of each year. Counties excepted. Sale of game prohibited. Unlawful to buy game. SEC. 3. That section twelve of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 12. Every person who shall offer for sale or market, or sell or barter any moose, elk, caribou, killed in this state, antelope, mountain sheep or goat, deer, or the hide or skin of any moose, elk, deer or caribou, or any grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, partridge, sage hen, prairie chicken or quail at any time of the year, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided." SEC. 4. That section thirteen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 13. Every person, agent or employe of a company or corporation, hotelkeeper, restaurant keeper, boarding house keeper, or keeper of a market, or other person who shall buy or barter for, at any time of the year, the whole or any part of the meat of any moose, elk, caribou, antelope, mountain sheep or goat, deer, or the hide or skin of any moose, elk, deer or caribou, or any grouse, pheasant, ptarmigan, partridge, sage hen, prairie chicken or quail, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided." SEC. 5. That section fifteen of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 15. Every person. certain who shall hunt, pursue, take, kill, trap, ensnare, injure Closed season or destroy any imported or oriental pheasant, golden, game birds. silver, ring-necked, copper, bronze, Chinese or Mongolian pheasant, or California, valley or mountain quail or Bob White quail, at any time after the passage of this act and before the 15th day of October in the year 1901, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided: Provided, That thereafter and after the 15th day of October, A. D. 1901, the hunting and killing of all varieties of imported and oriental pheasants, valley, mountain, California or Bob White quail shall be permitted between the 15th day of October and the 1st day Quail. of December, otherwise be governed by the law heretofore enacted for the hunting and killing of native. pheasants and grouse: Provided, further, That the clause prohibiting the killing of Chinese or Mongolian pheasant shall not apply to Skamania county: Provided, That in the counties of Kittitas and Klickitat it shall Prairie be unlawful to hunt, pursue, take, kill, trap, ensnare, injure or destroy any prairie chicken from and after the passage of this act and before October, A. D. 1901. Passed the House February 9, 1899. Passed the Senate March 9, 1899. Approved March 14, 1899. chickens. CHAPTER CXXXIX. FOR THE RELIEF OF MRS. J. H. STAHL, ET AL. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: appropriated out of the state treasury from the general military fund to pay Mrs. J. H. Stahl for rent of armory used and occupied by Company C, First Battalion, National Guard of Washington, from the first day of March, 1897, to the first day of April, 1898. SEC. 2. That the sum of three hundred ($300) dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury from the general military fund to pay the Vancouver Auditorium Association for rent of armory used and occupied by Company H, Second Battalion, National Guard of Washington, for the period of twelve months. SEC. 3. That the sum of one hundred and sixty-three and ($163.50) dollars for maintenance and armory fund be and is hereby appropriated for the relief of Captain R. A. Koontz, Company B, First Regiment, National Guard of Washington. SEC. 4. The state auditor is hereby authorized to draw warrants on the state treasurer for the sum in favor of the said persons, and said treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrants out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. Passed the House March 7, 1899. CHAPTER CXL. [H. B. No. 284.] COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. AN ACT providing for the compulsory attendance of children in the public schools in cities of more than ten thousand inhabi tants. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. Every person residing in a city containcompulsory. ing ten thousand or more inhabitants, having under School attendance |