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take oatli of office aild give bond <>( ^2,000.00, and is allowed salary of $1800.00 per 

 annum payable as are salaries of other territorial officers.] 



Deputies; Compensation; Duties; Powers: Sec. 3. Such game and fish warden 

 shall have the power to appoint deputies in each county in this territory, and to 

 remove the same from office, who shall be residents of the county for which they 

 were appointed, and who shall be specially charged with the duty of enforcing the 

 fish and game laws of the Territory of New Mexico in their respective counties, and 

 such deputies shall receive in full compensation for their services, one-half of all 

 fines « imposed ui)on prosecutions procured or instituted by them, and convictions 

 secured thereunder, for violation of the game and fish laws of this territory, and 

 each deputy so appointed shall qualify by filing with the game and fish warden of 

 the Territory of New Mexico, an oath of office now prescribed by law for territorial 

 officers. It shall be the duty of the game and fish warden of the Territory of New 

 Mexico and of each and every deputy within his county, rigidly and strictly to care 

 for and enforce the provisions of this and all other laws of the Territory of New 

 Mexico for the protection of game and fish of whatsoever kind or description, and 

 to institute and cause the institution of prosecutions for any and all violations of 

 such laws, and to that end such game and fish warden and each and every of his 

 deputies within their respective counties as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and re- 

 quired to arrest, or cause [to] be arrested, all violators of such laws, and to lodge 

 accusations against them in a court of competent jurisdiction in the premises; to 

 gather evidence on behalf of the prosecution of such offenders, and to do any and all 

 things necessary to the punishment hereunder and under the laws of the Territory 

 of New Mexico of any violations of this or any other law of said territory on the 

 subject of fish and game and the protection thereof. [Warden or deputies liable to 

 punishment and removal from office for failure to enforce the law.] 



Approved March 12, 1903. 



NEW YORK. 



Laws of 1901, chap. 94. 



Commissioner; Deputy; Compensation; Bond: [Sec] 1. The forest, fish and 

 game commission shall, except as in this act otherwise provided, consist of a single 

 commissioner who shall have all the powers and duties now possessed by such com- 

 mission or any member or members thereof. He shall be appointed by the governor 

 by and with the advice and consent of the senate within ten days after the passage 

 of this act. The term of office of such commissioner and his successors in office shall 

 be four years, and in case of vacancy in the office, the appointment shall be to fill 

 the vacancy. He shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars and the 

 expenses necessarily incurred by him in the discharge of his official duties. Said 

 conunissioner shall after January first, nineteen hundred and three, appoint a 

 deputy commissioner who shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred 

 do''.ars and the expenses necessarily incurred by him in the diacharge of his official 

 duties. During the absence or inability to act of the commissioner, the deputy com- 

 missioner shall have and exercise all the powers of the commissioner. The commis- 

 sioner and deputy commissioner shall each execute and file with the comptroller of 

 the state a bond to the people of the state in the sum of ten thousand dollars with 

 sureties to l)e approved by the comptroller, conditioned for the faithful performance 

 of his duties and to account for and pay over jjursuant to law, all moneys received 

 by him in his office. The commissioner and deputy commissioner shall take and 

 subscribe the constitutional oath of office. The deputy commissioner may be 



[«The other half to be paid into the county treasury fur the school fund of the 

 county.] 



