1901_public laws_278_3
CHAPTER 277 An act for the better protection of wild fowls in Currituck Sound. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Every game keeper shall be authorized and empowered to arrest all offenders against the hunting or fishing laws whom he may detect violating said laws and carry them before some Justice of the Peace in said county to be dealt with according to law. And he shall be authorized to execute any warrant that may be issued to him by any Justice of the Peace of said county for the arrest of any person offending against the laws regulating hunting and fishing in said county: Provided, that this authority shall not be in exclusion of like authority now conferred by law upon other officers to execute process.