Inspectors:

Baltimore County:
John Smith .. Dundalk

Calvert County:
Bernice P. Bowen .. Benedict

Charles County:
Guy Z. Johnson Rock Point

Kent County:

Maurice P. Edwards .. Rock Hall
Lewin T. Hyland........ .... .... ..... ... —Rock Hall

Queen Anne's County:

Carroll Pierson.. .. .... Grasonville
Kirby Thompson .. .. Chester

Somerset County:

John Dize.. .. ... .... Crisfield
James L. Sterling.. .. .. ..... ..... Crisfield

St. Mary's County:
Jos. Allen Henderson ...... . — ........ St. George's Island

Talbot County:

Geo. A. Cummings, Jr... —.. ... .... ......... — Fairbanks
Henry V. Trippe .... ... .. ....... Newcomb
Samuel A. H. Phillips.. ..... .. .. — Claiborne

Wicomico County:

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

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND INLAND FISH
514 Munsey Building, Baltimore 2, Maryland
Telephone: SAratoga 3054
Chapter 708—Acts of 1943

Name Term Expires Postoffice
Garner Wood Denmead, Chairman 1948 .... ...... Baltimore
J. H. Gambrill, Jr., V. Chairman.. 1950.. ... .... ... Frederick
A. Gordon Fleet ....... ......... .....1949 .... .... Edgewater
Fulcher P. Smith .. ............ .. 1946 ....Cumberland
Jonathan D. Longfellow — ......... 1947 .... ... .. .. .. Salisbury

By Chapter 708 of the Acts of 1943, a new Article was enacted to be
known as Article 99, titled "Birds, Game and Inland Water Fish."

"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."

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 receipts
are credited to the State Game Protection Fund.

The original State Game Department was consolidated with the Con-
servation Commission by Chapter 683, Acts of 1916, when said Com-
mission was created. Prior to 1916 the General Assembly appropri-
ated $2,600.00 every two years for the support and maintenance
of the State Game Department.

The hunters' license system was created by Chapter 468, Acts of
1918. Through the hunters' license system, the Department has a