614 WILD FOWL, BIRDS AND GAME. [ART. 99

him in more efficiently enforcing the game and fish laws of this
State, he may apply to the Governor to commission such persons
as he may designate to act as deputy game wardens in any of the
counties or in Baltimore city, to enforce the game and fish laws
of this State, and to carry out all the purposes of this article.
Such persons need not be residents of the county or city for which
they are appointed. If the Governor approve such persons, he
may appoint them deputy game wardens. Such deputy game
wardens shall not receive a salary from the State or counties, but
shall be paid such compensation out of the fines collected, or
otherwise, as the game warden may agree with them.

1896, ch 298.

21. The Governor shall issue to each person so appointed as
deputy game warden a commission, and shall transmit such com-
mission to the clerk's office of the circuit court for the county for
which the deputy game warden is appointed, and to the office of
the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, if appointed
for Baltimore city, and he may revoke and annul any such
appointments at his pleasure.

Ibid.

22. Every deputy game warden so appointed shall, before
entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe before
a justice of the peace of the county or city in which his commis-
sion may be received, 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 game warden throughout the State,
and also every deputy game warden so appointed, after the record-
ing of the oath or affirmation to be by said deputy game warden
taken as aforesaid shall, in the county or city for which said
deputy game warden may be appointed, possess and exercise all
the authority and power held and exercised by constables at com-
mon law and under the statutes of this State, and also all author-
ity and powers conferred by law upon policemen in the city of
Baltimore as far as arresting and prosecuting persons for violat-
ing any of the game and fish laws of this State are concerned.
The clerk shall only charge fifty cents for recording said oath or
affirmation.