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Game and Fish. shall be subject to defenses in the hands of every owner or holder thereof. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment and shall be liable in a civil action to the party injured for all damages sustained

§ 7672. Unauthorized sending pauper out of county. Every person who sends or causes to be sent any pauper or person who is or is likely to become an object of public charity, into any county this other than the county where such pauper or person properly belongs, with intent to relieve the county from which such pauper or person is sent from his support, or to cause the county to which he is sent to support him, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7673. Where prosecuted. Prosecutions for any violation of the last section may be commenced and prosecuted either in the county from which such pauper or person is sent or in the county to which he is sent.

§ 7674. Fraudulently obtaining food or accommodation at inns. A person who obtains any food or accommodation at any inn, hotel or boarding house without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof, or who obtains credit at any inn, hotel or boarding house by use of any false pretense, or who after obtaining food or accommodations at an inn, hotel or boarding house, absconds and surreptitiously removes his baggage therefrom without paying for his food and accommodation, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than thirty nor less than ten days, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the judge or justice of the peace before whom the trial is held.

§ 7675. Abusing insane person. Every person who has the care of an insane person, or is restraining such person either with or without authority, and treats such person with wanton severity, harshness or cruelty or in anyway abuses such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 72.

GAME AND FISH.

§ 7676. Birds, animals and fish property of state. All birds and animals wild by nature, and all fish in the public waters within the jurisdiction of this state, are, except as prescribed in section 3268 of the civil code, the property of the state.

§ 7677. Shooting or killing restricted. Every person who, either:

1. Shoots or kills any prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, sharptailed grouse, ruffed grouse, woodcock, plover, wild duck, wild goose or brant, between the first day of December and the first day of September following, or any song bird at any time; or, 1361