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perform such other duties as the Commission may designate,
including the guarding of streams and waters of the State
against pollution.
Section 47. The Conservation Commission shall issue to
each person so appointed as deputy or local game warden a
commission, and transmit such commission 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 Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City, if
residing in Baltimore City, and they may revoke and annul
any such appointment at their pleasure.
Section 56. All Sheriffs, Constables and Police Officers
and all the officers appointed by the Conservation Commission
shall assist in enforcing the provisions of this Article, and
shall have all the powers of a deputy game warden. The game
warden and the deputy game wardens and any other officers
shall not be liable for any damage or costs sustained by any
person or corporation by reason of the wrongful seizure of
game, wild life or fish under this sub-title; provided, however,
that the enforcement of this sub-title shall in no wise prevent
prosecution of persons or corporations for violations of the
game, wild life or fish laws of this State.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 38 and
51 of said Article 99 be and the same are hereby repealed, ex-
cept as to cases pending at the time of the passage of this Act.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That five new sections
be and they are hereby added to said Article 99, to follow Sec-
tion 66 and to be known as Sections 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71 of
said Article, and to read as follows:
Section 67. For the purpose of providing a fund for the
payment of the expenses of protecting and propagating certain
birds and animals, and preventing unauthorized persons from
killing the same, no person or persons shall at any time hunt,
pursue or kill in any manner any game as defined in Section
44 of this Article, without first having procured a license and
the written permission from the property owner or tenant on
whose property said person may be hunting to so hunt, pursue
or kill, and then only during the respective periods of the year
when it shall be lawful to hunt, pursue or kill birds and ani-
mals. The said license shall be procured from the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of any County or from the Clerk of the
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