WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4Y35

FOXES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 151. 1872, ch. 166. 1890, ch. 449.

185. Any person who shall be convicted of shooting any foxes whilst
pursued by dogs in Washington county, shall be liable to a fine of five
dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered before any justice of
the peace in said county, as other small debts are now recoverable; this
section not to apply to election district number eleven in said county.

1922, oh. 249, sec. 151A.

186. No person shall trap or attempt to trap or set any steel trap, dead
fall or other device on the lands of another without the written consent
of the owner, and without, at the time of such trapping or setting of any
steel trap, or dead fall or any other device whatever, he has in his pos-
session such written consent and shall exhibit it to anyone demanding to
examine it, and providing further, that any person setting or placing a
steel trap on the lands of another, shall set or place such steel trap not less
than eighteen inches within the entrance of any hole, cave, opening or
hollow log, on such property, so as to be inaccessible to any domestic
animal, dogs or fowls; and providing further, that any person finding any
trap, dead fall or other device used for trapping purposes, as provided for
in this section, not set or placed as herein required, may seize and destroy
any such trap, dead fall or device so found in violation of the provisions
of this Act.

1922, ch. 249, sec. 151B.

187. The sheriff and all deputy sheriffs, constables, game wardens and
deputy game wardens, and all peace officers, are hereby required and it
is their duty to enforce the provisions of this Act, and shall have the right
to arrest without process any person found by them in the act of violating
any of the provisions of this Act, and they shall have authority to seize,
without process, any and all traps, dead falls or other devices found in
the possession of any person on the premises or lands of another in viola-
tion of the provisions of this Act, and forthwith shall take such offender
before any justice of the peace having jurisdiction of the offense and said
justice of the peace, upon the complaint of any of said officials or other
persons, shall proceed to try such person, and shall, upon conviction there-
of, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more
than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each offense, and upon failure to
pay any fine and costs, imposed by any justice of the peace, the person so
convicted shall be confined in the county jail for a term of one day for
every dollar of said fine and costs so imposed.

FRUIT TREES.*

1890, ch. 26, sec. 1.

188. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep in Washington county
any peach, almond, apricot or nectarine tree, infected with the con-

*See Art 48, sec. 78, Annotated Code (1924 Edition).