SEC. 16. If any person or persons shall enter upon any lands, not owned by himself, with gun and dog, or with gun alone, for the purpose of shooting any kind of birds or game without first obtaining permission to do so by the owner or occupant, he shall forfeit and pay a fine of five dollars; and if he shall not pay the said fine he shall forfeit is gun until redeemed, as hereinafter provided. The justice of the peace shall hold the said gun for thirty days, for the purpose of giving the owner time to redeem it by paying the fine imposed by law; at the expiration of said time it shall be publicly sold, and so much of the proceeds as is necessary shall be appropriated to the payment of said fine, and the balance to be returned to the owner of the gun, That all said fines shall be paid into the State Treasury.