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-
ports $129,000 in assets and no liabilities, with a salaried staff of 26
deputy game wardens stationed throughout the State and 600 non-
salaried deputies.

The Department has in operation two State-owned game farms,
namely the Gwynnbrook Farm, Baltimore county, and the Wicomico
Farm in Wicomico county, where large numbers of bob-white and
other species of game are propagated in captivity; also operate a
propagation plant on a small scale at the Montgomery county Game
Refuge and the Washington county Game Refuge. The Department
owns 6301 acres purchased from hunters license receipts and said
areas are used as game refuges and propagation plants and in addi-
tion has under lease 32,685 acres used for the same purpose.

New Legislation.

During the session of the General Assembly of 1935, there were
only two bills enacted pertaining to game, namely Chapter 559 which
repealed an old law which had been on the statute books 64 years and
which provides what is known as rest days for the hunting of wild
waterfowl on the Susquehanna Flats. The new Act provides that
wild waterfowl may be hunted on the Susquehanna Flats each day of
the week except Sunday.

The second bill, Chapter 359 provides it to be unlawful to hunt wild
waterfowl with any gun carrying more than three loads at any one
time, said gun must be loaded with shot only and said gun shall not be
larger than a No. 10 guage; also provides that it shall be unlawful to
use more than 25 live decoys on any one property at any one time and
no wild waterfowl except crippled birds not otherwise retrievable shall
be shot while resting on water or land. This Act further provides it
to be lawful to use what is known as a sneak boat on the waters of
the Potomac river in Frederick and Montgomery counties, however,
said boat or boats must be licensed by the Clerk of the Court of said
county under a license fee of $6.00. Said Act further provides it to be
unlawful to locate a shooting stand or blind on land when located at a
distance of more than 50 yards from natural shore less than 300 yards
apart.

STATE GAME WARDEN.
512 Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md.

Appointed by the Conservation Commission under Merit System.
E. Lee LeCompte State Game Warden Cambridge
Richard T. Norris Chief Deputy Game Warden Glen Burnie
Harold Smith Kolmer Secretary Baltimore
Madeline Z. Englar Stenographer Baltimore
llda V. Dicken Stenographer Baltimore

District Deputy Game Wardens.

Appointed by State Game Warden under Merit System.

District No. I.

Garrett County Richard S. Browning Oakland
Allegany Harry R. Kenney Cumberland
Allegany Joseph A. Minke Cumberland
Washington Albert Crampton Hagerstown