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persons as he may designate to act as Deputy Game Wardens to enforce said
laws, who shall be known as "Non-Salaried Deputy Game Wardens."
Such persons may be appointed for the whole State or such county or coun-
ties, city or cities, as the Game Warden may designate. Such deputy game
wardens shall not receive a salary from the State, County or Counties, or
Cities, but shall be paid such compensation out of the State Game Protec-
tion Fund as the Game Warden may determine.
The Game Warden may also appoint deputy game wardens for the
whole State or for such County or Counties, City or Cities as he may
designate. Such deputy game wardens shall be known as "Salaried Offi-
cers" and shall be appointed with the approval of the Commission. Each
deputy game warden so appointed shall receive a salary of not less than
Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) per annum: provided, however,
that the present salaried deputy game wardens shall receive during the
current fiscal year compensation at the same rate as prior to June 1, 1939.
Each deputy game warden who shall have been rated by the State Game
Warden in the first grade for a full year, shall receive increased salary
at the rate of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per annum and for each
year thereafter in which he shall so qualify he shall receive a like increase
until he receives a maximum sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00)
per annum, and shall also be entitled to necessary traveling expenses in-
curred by him in the discharge of his duties, subject to such regulations
and limitations as the Game Warden may from time to time see fit to
establish.
The Game Warden is authorized, with the consent of the Commission,
to appoint Regional Deputy Game Wardens, who shall be required to
supervise the District Deputy Game Wardens of their respective region,
each of whom shall receive a salary not to exceed Fifteen Hundred Dollars
($1,500.00) per annum and necessary traveling expenses and other ex-
penses incurred by him in the discharge of his official duties, subject to
such regulations and limitations as the Game Warden, upon the advice
of the Commission, may from time to time see fit to establish. Said ap-
pointments shall be made, however, only when funds are available and
provided for in the budget.
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.
The Game Warden shall issue to each person so appointed as Deputy
Game Warden a commission and badge and transmit such commission to
the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court for the County in which said 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; but in the case of those persons under the Merit System at the time
of the passage of this Act, only in accordance with the provisions of Article
64A of the Code.
1927, ch. 568, sec. 6.
7. 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
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