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refuge and after the filing of this application in due form and the acceptance by "the State Game and Fish Board, the same shall constitute a game refuge within the meaning of this Section. A proper record subject to public inspection shall be kept by the secretary of the Game and Fish Board in which shall be registered by counties, the names and donors, the time of the dedication and the legal description of the lands so dedicated as game refuges. The Game and Fish Board may, in like manner, establish one or more game refuges on any unsold public lands of the state, which shall be registered with the game refuges on private lands, as here inbefore set forth, the duration of the public land refuges being until they become the property of private persons or until canceled by such Game and Fish Board. It is further provided that under the same terms and conditions, the owner or owners of land surrounding 0r adjoining any lake within the state, may dedicate the lake to the state for breeding, resting and refuge places for waterfowl. All lands and lakes so set aside and established as game refuges shall be under the protection of the state, and it- shall be unlawful to hunt with any firearms of any description, with or without dogs, commonly used for hunting purposes, within one hundred and fifty feet of the boundaries outside thereof, and any person Who shall, within the limits of the one hundred and fifty feet of the outside of any game refuge, shoot, trap, kill, wound in any manner, take or capture, or drive out of the refuge for the purpose of killing or capturing any protected game bird or animal, or shall be found within the limits of any game refuge with firearms of any kind, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than fiftydollars nor more than one hundred dollars and by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than sixty days. Any person convicted of a second offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than two hundred dollars and costs of prosecution and by imprisonment in the county jail not less than sixty Each game refuge shall, after days and not more than six months. it has been established as provided, be posted at each corner and along its outer line at least each eighty rods with a sign upon which shall be the words “State Game Refuge.” The owner or lessee of any land or lakes so set aside as a game refuge, shall not themselves nor permit immediate members of his own family nor any other person or persons to hunt, carry firearms, therein, except that if he has reason to believe there are within the game refuge any car niVerous birds or animals, or if he finds any carniverous birds or animals, he may, with the knowledge and a written permit from the secretary of the Game and Fish Board, hunt and kill and trap any and all such carniverous or unprotected birds or animals found Within such game refuge, as by nature injure or kill protected game birds and animals living therein.

§ 58. DEFACING WARNING SIGNS.] The board shall mark all and resting places farms, reservations, breeding grounds game game