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Laws of 1901, chap. 36, p. 364. 



Article I. 



Game commission; Duties; Sec. 1. There is hereby created a game and fish 

 commission for the State of Nebraska, which shall have the general charge of the 

 following named public matters, viz: 



1. The protection, propagation and breeding of such fish and game, song, insectiv- 

 orous and other birds as may be deemed valuable to the people of the State. 



2. The collection and distribution of such statistics and information as may be 

 deemed useful respecting the protection and propagation of fish and game, song, 

 insectivorous and other Ijirds, and to take charge and preserve all books, records and 

 documents pertaining to the subject which may come into the possession of said 

 commission, or under its control. 



3. [Fish.] 



4. The enforcement of all laws of the State for the protection, preservation and 

 propagation of fish and game, song, insectivorous and other useful birds. 



Comm.issioner; Deputies; Compensation: Sec. 2. [As amended by Laws of 

 1905, chap. 74.] The affairs of said commission shall be conducted by a game and 

 fish commissioner and such subordinates as are provided for in this act. 



The Governor is hereby made the game and fish commissioner, and he is required 

 within thirty days from the approval of this act, and every two years thereafter, to 

 appoint two deputy game and fish commissioners, who shall hold office for a term 

 of two years, or until their successors shall have qualified, and who may be removed 

 by the Governor at any time for cause. One of said deputies shall be designated as 

 the chief deputy, who shall reside in the City of Lincoln, and who shall, under the 

 direction of the commissioner, devote hia entire time to the affairs of this office. 

 One of said deputies shall be skilled in the science of fish culture and shall under 

 the direction of the commissioners have the control and management of all fish 

 hatcheries of the State and the distribution of fish spawn and fry in the waters of 

 the State. Said deputies shall receive compensation as follows: 



The chief deputy shall receive a salary of one thousand and five hundred (|1,500) 

 dollars per annum, payable quarterly, and the other deputy in charge of state fish 

 hatcheries shall receive a salary of one thousand two hundred ($1,200) dollars per 

 annum, payaljle quarterly, also their actual traveling and subsistence expenses, not 

 exceeding $500 per year, when absent from their respective homes in the discharge 

 of their official duties. Said commissioner shall also within thirty days from the 

 approval of this act appoint, and may remove at his pleasure, three deputies who 

 shall receive seventy-five ($75.00) dollars i)er month, payable monthly, for such time 

 only as they shall be actually employed in the discharge of their official duties under 

 the direction of the commissioner. They shall also receive their actual traveling 

 and sul^sisting expenses not exceeding three hundred ($300.00) dollars per year, 

 while absent from their respective homes in the discharge of their official duties. 

 The commissioner may also at his pleasure in writing appoint for sjiecial purposes, 

 deputies who shall serve for such special purposes without compensation such pur- 

 poses being stated in the written ai)pointment, and who shall have for such purpose 

 the same powers as the deputies hereinbefore mentioned. 



Office; Secretary; Compensation: Sec. 3. The commission shall be provided 

 at the State Capitol with suitable furniture, stationerv and other facilities for the 

 transaction of its business. And the commissioner may ai)point and remove at his 

 pleasure, a secretary at a salary not exceeding seventy-five ($75) per month, payable 

 monthly. Provided the connnissioner may in his discretion require the chief deputy 

 to act as secretary of said connni.ssion, in which case said deputy shall receive three 



"Laws of 1!H)7 wA received. 



