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MARYLAND MANUAL 69 7th District— Geo. W. Parks Broomes Island Jos. Allen Henderson StGeorge’s Island Wm. W. Clarke Ridge Walter D. Goode Bushwood Harvey T. Mister Solomons 8th District— Wm. T. Scott Girdletree FISH CULTURAL WORK. Fish Hatcheries at Lewiston, Frederick County; Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, and Bear Creek, Garrett County. Bass Propa- gation Station at Fairlee, Kent County. Albert M. Powell, Supt. of Hatcheries Lewistown Pierson Rice, Asst. Fish Culturist LeAlton Powell, Asst. Fish Culturist Lewistown Edw. R. Thomas, Asst. Fish Culturist Baltimore Ralph W. Miller, Asst. Fish Culturist AGeorge W. Gorsuch, Asst. Fish Culturist Chestertown Commercial Fish Stations. George W. Parks, Superintendent - - Broomes Island Special Elmer Haulenbeek, Game Warden ........ Kenneth T. Burkins, Fish Warden.... . . - Castleton STATE GAME DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND. Game. The State Game Department, or Game Division, of the Conserva- tion Commission acts as an agency for the enforcement of game and fresh water fish law and is supported entirely from receipts thru the sale of hunting licenses, which are credited to the State Game Protec- tion Fund and disbursed for the protection and propagation of game, however, the deputy game wardens enforce the fish laws at all points above tide water and receive their compensation from the State Game Vrotection Fund and not from the anglers license. The General Treas- ury does not appropriate a single penny to the support of the Division. The State Game Department was created by Chapter 293, General Assembly of 1896 and consolidated with the Conservation Commission by Chapter 682, Acts of 1916 when said Commission was created. Pnor to 1916 the General Assembly appropriated $2600 every two years for support and maintenance for said Department. With only one salaried officer, namely the State Game Warden, it was impossible for him, no matter how ambitious he may have been, to make a scratch on the surface in the enforcement of the laws and, of course, did not have one penny to expend for propagation. The hunters license system was created by Chapter 468, Acts of 1918, which requires those who enjoy the great outdoors to contribute to a Fund for support of the Division and until this law was enacted the Department was one by name and not by action due to the lack of finances. For instances, beginning with the fiscal year of 1916, there was $511 in the Treasury to the credit of the Department. Since the enactment of the hunters license system in 1918, the Department re |
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