WILD FOWL—BIRDS AND GAME. 605

Such Deputy Game Wardens shall be termed "non-salaried officers" and
at no time shall the number exceed twenty-five (25) in any one county
of this State or fifty (50) in Baltimore City. All Deputy Game Wardens
shall perform such duties as the Game Warden may designate, including
the guarding of streams and waters of the state against pollution.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 6.

6. The Game Warden shall issue to each person so appointed as
Deputy Game Warden a commission and badge and transmit such com-
mission to the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court for the County in which
the Deputy Game Warden so appointed has his legal residence, or to the
office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if residing in
Baltimore City, and may revoke and annul any such appointment at any
time he may desire.

1927, ch. 568, sec. 7.

7. The Game Warden and every Deputy Game Warden shall, before
entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe before the clerk
of the Circuit Court of the county of which he is a resident, or if a resi-
dent of Baltimore City, before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, the oath or affirmation prescribed by the sixth section of the first
Article of the constitution of this State, which oath or affirmation shall be
recorded in the clerk's office of such county or city. The Clerk of Court
shall charge fifty cents (50c) for recording such oath or affirmation. The
Clerk of the Court before whom said person takes the oath of office shall
notify in writing the Game Warden of this State. The Game Warden and
every deputy Game Warden of the State so appointed, after the recording
of the oath or affirmation to be by said Game Warden or Deputy Game
Wardens taken as aforesaid, shall, in the County, Counties, City or Cities
for which such Deputy Game Warden may be appointed, possess and exer-
cise all the authority and powers held or exercised by constables at common
law and under the statutes of this State, and also all authority and power
conferred by law upon policemen in the City of Baltimore or any other
city of this State, as far as arresting and prosecuting persons for violating
any of the fish and game laws of this State are concerned; the salaried
Deputy Game Wardens shall, when on duty, carry equipment as specified
by the Game Warden, and they are hereby vested with additional powers
to arrest without warrant persons known to be guilty of violating any of
the provisions of the game and fish laws of this State, and to forthwith
take any and all such persons before any Justice of the Peace of the County
or City where the offense was committed to be dealt with in accordance
with the provisions of the game and fish laws. In the event of finding
game or fish taken or held in possession contrary to the laws of this State,
the Game Warden or Deputy Game Wardens or other officer may confiscate
same and the Game Warden shall dispose of any confiscated property as he
may deem advisable to the best interest of this State.