40 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



to 12,433.47 and in 1904 to |1, 627.81. These amounts represent the 

 value of only a small part of the game confiscated, as the sale of 

 nearly all kinds of game is prohibited and such game must, under 

 the law, be donated to some charitable institution of the State. 



Another source of revenue to the game protection fund is found in 

 the provision of the Indiana law requiring the payment into the State 

 treasury to the credit of the fish and game fund of $20 collected as 

 costs from the defendant in ever}^ conviction where the commissioner 

 or warden prosecutes. A similar provision is contained in the Con- 

 necticut law, but the §20 taxed against defendants there is paid 

 directly to the warden prosecuting, and constitutes his entire com- 

 pensation. 



Several States make direct approi)riations from the general treasury 

 for the maintenance of their game departments as an addition to the 

 funds arising from licenses, fines, etc. Thus Minnesota, in the game 

 act, fixes the annual appropriation at $35,000; and Vermont, in the 

 act of 1904 as amended in 1906, appropriates annually the sum of 

 $5,500 for the preservation of fish and game. The following table 

 shows the sums appropriated in the several States for game protection 

 in the two years 1905-6, together with certain incidental details. It 

 will be noticed that in 9 States — Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, 

 Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington," and Wiscon- 

 sin — the work was self-supporting. In several of these States no 

 appropriations were made, or, as in Idaho, Missouri, and Washington, 

 the money already in the game protection funds was appropriated or 

 made available for the use of the department. 



« The general appropriation for salaries and expenses in Washington is almost 

 exclusively for fishery work. 



