cense, the owner is required to keep a collar on the dog's neck, distinctly marked with the owner's name.

The moneys raised from licenses constitute a fund for the payment of damages which persons may sustain by the killing or wounding of sheep or lambs, by dogs.

Whoever keeps a dog without a license and collar is subject to a forfeiture of ten dollars.

It is the duty of Constables and Policemen to kill all dogs found not licensed and collared.

From this, it would seem that dogs are not "entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," unless they happen to belong to some one able to license and collar them.

Sheep.-Any person who shall knowingly bring into this State, sheep having any contagious disease, is subject to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars, and on failure to pay the same, may be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months; and any person who shall allow his sheep to run at large, on the highway, knowing them to have a contagious disease, is subject to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars; and in default of payment may be imprisoned in the County Jail not to exceed three months.

Questions-In those Counties where cattle, horses, sheep and swine are prohibited from running at large, what provision is made for seizing such animals when at large? What proceedings are had to effect a sale of such animals? What is done with the proceeds of the sale? May the owner redeem the animals when sold? On what terms may the owner procure the possession of animals seized, for running at large contrary to law? What are warehousemen and other bailes required to do in regard to property consigned to them? Under what circumstances may such goods be sold? How are such sales effected? What disposition is made of the moneys arising from the sale? What powers have township and village boards with reference to theatrical exhibitions and shows? What is the penalty

for setting up or promoting such shows or exhibitions without a license, or contrary to the terms of such license? What regulations may the inhabitants of townships and villages make concerning the keeping of gunpowder? What can you say in reference to the dog-license law? What is the penalty for importing diseased sheep? For allowing such sheep to run at large in the highways?

CHAPTER XLVII.

LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FISH.

It is unlawful to put into any of the waters of the State, where fish are taken, any offal, blood, putrid brine, putrid fish or filth of any description. The penalty for a violation of this law, is a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

All fish, offal or filth accruing from the catching and curing of fish, must be burned or buried ten rods distant from the beach or shore of the river or lake.

The spawn taken from all whitefish caught shall be forthwith deposited in the waters near the spawning places from which the fish were taken.

For a violation of the provisions of law mentioned in either of the last two paragraphs, the offender is subject to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, and costs, or to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

The Boards of Supervisors of the several counties have the power to make rules and regulations for fishing with nets and all manner of fishing tackle, in those counties where the

law does not, by express terms or by reasonable implication, deprive them of this power.

The Boards, except in those counties referred to in the preceding paragraphs, and to which reference will be made hereafter, are authorized and required to grant, on the application of any transient or non-resident person or persons, a written permission or license for one year, for each and every pound or trap net used, on payment of fifty dollars.

A law was passed in 1867, to prevent fishing with seines and every kind of continuous nets, in the waters of the counties of Branch, Livingston, Cass, St. Joseph, Kent, Ionia, Genesee and Calhoun, or in any of the lakes, rivers or streams of Macomb county, under a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than sixty days, to be determined by the Court. A similar act was passed in 1865 with reference to fishing, in the counties of Jackson, Hillsdale, Washtenaw, Van Buren, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Barry, Eaton and the townships of Rollin, Medina, Seneca, Dover, Hudson, Cambridge, Franklin and Woodstock, in Lenawee county At the same session of the Legislature, an act similar to the foregoing was passed, applying to all the inland lakes or small streams of all the territory of the State, according to the United States' survey, north of the township line numbered twenty, north.

The law makes it the duty of the owners or occupants of mill-dams to construct proper shutes, to admit the passage of fish during the months of April, May and June. A failure to do this subjects the person in default to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days.

It is unlawful for any person to place a weir dam, fish weir or weir net, across any race, drain, stream, or inland river of this State, so as to obstruct the free passage of fish up and

down the same; and the offender is subject to a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, for each offense, and also to the payment of two dollars additional penalty for every day he shall continue to keep up such fish weir or weir net, after having been notified by any elector of the township wherein such fish weir or weir net may be, feeling himself aggrived thereby, to remove the same.

By the provisions of an act passed in 1873, it is unlawful to kill, at any time, by means of nets, traps or seines, in any inland lake, river or stream, or by any other means, between the first day of October and the first day of April next succeeding, any speckled trout or grayling. The penalty for a violation of this provision is a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court.

In 1873, the Legislature passed an act to establish a Board of Commissioners to increase the product of the fisheries. This Board is required to locate a State fish-breeding establishment, for the artificial propagation and cultivation of white-fish, and such other kinds of the better class of food fishes as they may direct. The duties of this Board have been referred to in a preceding chapter.

Questions-What materials shall not be put into the waters of this State, where fish are taken? What is the penalty for violating this provision? What must be done with offal, etc., which accrues from the catching and curing of fish? What must be done with the spawn, in certain cases? What is the penalty for refusing or neglecting to dispose of the offal, &c., and of the spawn, as directed? What powers have Boards of Supervisors in relation to fishing? What is said of the law of 1867? Of the acts of 1865? What is said of the construction of shutes? Of weir dams and weir nets? What is said of the act of 1873, with reference to a Board of Fish Commissioners ?

CHAPTER XLVIII.

OF THE PROTECTION OF GAME AND MUSK-RATS.

It is provided by law that no person or persons shall pursue, or hunt, or kill any wild elk, wild buck, doe, or fawn, save only during the months of October, November, and December in each year; or kill or destroy by any means whatever, or attempt to take or destroy any wild turkey at any time during the year, except in the months of September, October, November, and December in each year; or kill or destroy, by any means whatever, any woodcock until after the fifth of July; or any prairie chicken, or pinnated grouse, ruffled grouse, commonly called partridge or pheasant, or any wood duck, teal duck, or mallard duck, save only from the first day of September in each year to the first day of January next following.

It is also provided that no person or persons shall kill or destroy, or attempt to kill or destroy, any quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, except during the months of October, November, and December in each year.

The law also provides that no person shall kill, or attempt to kill, any wild duck, or other wild fowl, with or by means of a swivel or punt gun, or rob or destroy the nests of any wild duck or wild geese, or in any manner kill or molest the same while they are sitting at night on their nesting places.

No person shall sell, or expose for sale, any of the birds or animals protected by this act, after the expiration of thirty days next succeeding the times limited and prescribed