LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 293.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a game warden
and deputy game wardens, and to provide for the more vig-
orous enforcement of the game and fish laws of this State.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor of this State shall, immediately upon
the passage of this act, and thereafter on the first day of April
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and every two
years thereafter, 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 viola-
tion of the game and fish laws, when the offenders shall be pros-
cuted by said game warden or his deputy game wardens, as
hereinafter provided. The said game warden may be removed
by the Governor of this State at any time upon proof, satis-
factory to him, that said game warden is not vigorously enforc-
ing the game or fish laws of this State, or is not a tit person
for said position. In this act the word "game" shall be taken
to embrace deer, wild turkey, primatted grouse, roffled grouse,
known as "pheasants," Mongolian and English pheasants,
woodcock, partridges or quail, rabbits, squirrels, ducks, geese
and all other species of wild fowl.

Appointment
of game
warden.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said game warden and
his deputy game wardens to prosecute all persons or corpora-
tions-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.

To enforce
game laws.

SEC. 3. Whenever the game warden considers that it is neces-
sary that he should have deputy game wardens appointed to
assist 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 carry out all the purposes of
this act. 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

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Deputy game
wardens.