St. Marys County:

W. W. Clarke. ...................................... .Ridge
Jos. Allen Henderson ....................St. George's Island
Robert E. Pogue..................................... Bushwood

Talbot County:

Wm. M. Colburn. .................................. .Oxford
Geo. A. Cummings, Jr....... ....... ............ Fairbanks
John Francis Mansfield ........................St. Michaels
Howard T. Sinclair............................ Tilghman
Henry V. Trippe.......................................... Newcomb
Samuel A.. H. Phillips.................................................. Claiborne

Wicomico County:

Alfred Fisher................................. Nanticoke
Virgil P. Roberts. .............................. .Quantico

Special Warden:

Kenneth T. Burkins, Fish Warden.................. Castleton
Walter Smith, Special Fish Warden................ Baltimore

Biologists:

Dr. R. V. Truitt.............................. College Park
David H. Wallace, Assistant,..................... Solomons

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND INLAND FISH
Chapter 508..Acts of 1941.

Garner Wood Denmead, Chairman. 1943.................. Baltimore
S. Scott Beck. ................. .1942. .............. Chestertown
J. H. Gambrill, Jr.............. .1945. ................. Frederick
A. Gordon Fleet. .............. .1944. ........... .Edgewater, Md.
Fulcher P. Smith. ..............1946. .......... Cumberland, Md.

The Game and Inland Fish Commission is hereby created with the
personnel powers and duties of the present Maryland State Game
and Inland Fish Commission, as now constituted under Article 99 of
the Code. Uhereever in the Code the name Maryland State Game
Inland Fish Commission occurs, the name Game and Inland Fish Com-
mission shall be substituted.

This Department of the State acts as an agency for the enforce-
ment of game and fresh water fish laws, and the propagation of game
and fresh water fish in captivity, and is supported entirely through
receipts from the sale of hunters' and anglers' licenses, which re-
ceipts are credited to the State Game Protection Fund. The General
Treasury does not appropriate a single penny to the support of this
Department.

The original State Game Department was consolidated with the
Conservation Commission by Chapter 683, Acts of 1916, when said
Commission was created. Prior to 1916 the General Assembly appro-
priated $2600.00 every two years for the support and maintenance of
the State Game 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 game and fish laws, and of course no funds were
provided for the propagation of game or the restocking of our covers.