28 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



the chief deputj^ and assistants are entitled to traveling expenses not 

 exceeding $600 each. Each county deputy is under $500 bond, is 

 allowed traveling expenses when sent outside his district, and receives 

 $3 for each day of actual service, not exceeding, however, 160 da3^s in 

 any one year. 



In Illinois 16 game wardens are appointed by the commissioner, 

 with power to act anywhere in the State. Each i-eceives a salary of 

 $900 a year and actual expenses while under direction of the commis- 

 sioner. There ma}' be 3 deputy wardens for each county, appointed 

 b}^ the commissioner, with jurisdiction over the entire State. They 

 receive for their services $2 a da}^ while actuall}^ employed and one- 

 half of all fines resulting from complaints filed b}' them. The com- 

 missioner may also appoint as many special deputy wardens as neces- 

 sary, who are allowed one-half the fines recovered when they file the 

 complaints. 



The deputies in Iowa are appointed by the State warden. They 

 receive no salary, but are allowed a reasonable compensation in the 

 judgment of the county supervisors, to be paid from the county treas- 

 ury, and when thev are informants are entitled to a fee of $5, in each 

 instance, to be collected, in case of conviction, from the defendant. 



In Kansas the deputies are appointed by the State warden, one or 

 more for each county, upon request of 10 or more resident taxpayers. 

 As compensation each receives a fee of $10, collected as costs from 

 the defendant for every arrest resulting in conviction. 



The fish and game wardens in Maine are appointed by the governor, 

 upon the recommendation of the commissioners of inland fisheries 

 and game, to serve for three years; but the deputy game wardens are 

 appointed directly by the commissioners, who also fix their com- 

 pensation. 



The only subordinate wardens authorized in Maryland are the 

 deputy game wardens, who are appointed by the governor upon the 

 recommendation of the State warden. They may be appointed for 

 the whole State or for a specified locality, and receive such compen- 

 tion as they and the State warden may agree on, payable from fines 

 collected for violation of the game laws. 



The deputy warden system of Michigan is somewhat more elaborate 

 than those of most States. The State warden appoints a chief deputy, 

 who receives a salary of $1,500 and exercises the functions of the 

 ofiice in the absence of the State warden; not more than 10 deputy 

 game wardens, at a compensation of $3 for each day of actual serv- 

 ice and with jurisdiction over the entire State; and from one to 

 three county game and fish wardens for each county, subject to his 

 control, but with jurisdiction limited to the county, and compensa- 

 tion fixed by the county supervisors. A novel feature of the Michi- 

 gan law is a provision permitting the Audubon Society of that State 



