ART. 99] GAME WARDEN. 613

sub-title shall in any manner affect the public local laws for
Kent, Talbot, St. Mary's, Calvert, Harford, Allegany, Somerset,
Worcester, Caroline, Prince George's, Cecil, Frederick, Charles,
Dorchester, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, Carroll, Washington
and Wicomico counties relating to game and wild fowl, nor the
local law as it now exists in Montgomery county as to hunting
and killing rabbits, but that the local laws shall remain in full
force in said counties, respectively.

Came Warden.

1896, ch 293.

18. The Governor shall, on the first day of April, in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and every two years there-
after, appoint a game warden for this State, whose term of office
shall be for two years, or until his successor be appointed. The
said game warden shall receive a salary from the State for his
services of five hundred dollars per annum, and shall receive a
portion of the fines arising from the violation of the game and
fish laws, when the offenders shall be prosecuted by said game
warden or his deputy game wardens, as hereinafter provided.
The said game warden may be removed by the Governor at any
time upon proof, satisfactory to him, that said game warden is
not vigorously enforcing the game or fish laws of this State, or is
not a fit person for said position. In this article the word "game"
shall be taken to embrace deer, wild turkey, primatted grouse,
ruffled grouse, known as "pheasants, " Mongolian and English
pheasants, woodcocks, partridges or quail, rabbits, squirrels, ducks,
geese and all other species of wild fowl.

Ibid.

19. It shall be the duty of the said game warden and his
deputy game wardens to prosecute all persons or corporations
having in their possession any game or fish contrary to either the
general or local game or fish laws of this State. It shall also be
their duty to see that the game and fish laws are enforced and
obtain information as to all violations of the said game and fish
laws.

Ibid.

20. Whenever the game warden considers that it is necessary
that he should have deputy game wardens appointed to assist