276 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



until his successor is appointed and qualified. Before entering upon the duties of 

 his office the State Game Warden shall execute a bond to the State of Wyoming in 

 the penal sum of ($3,000) three thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful per- 

 formance of his duties, and his bond shall be approved by the Governor. The Gov- 

 ernor shall have power, at any time, to remove the State Game Warden, for miscon- 

 duct or neglect of his duties, upon written charges duly preferred; but the State 

 Game Warden shall be heard in his own defence. He is hereby authorized to arrest, 

 without warrant, any person or persons found violating any of the provisions of the 

 •game and tish laws when detected in the act or found with game or fish in their 

 possession at the time of arrest. The State Game Warden shall be an active execu- 

 tive officer, and shall at all times when possible take the field in person, in the per- 

 formance of his duties. He shall personally supervise the protection of all game, and 

 the detection and punishment of violators of the game and fish laws. * * * 

 Whenever the State Game Warden, or his legal assistants, meet witli resistance, 

 when attempting the arrest of any person or persons, for a violation of the game or 

 fish laws, he, or his assistants shall have power and authority to call upon any peace 

 officer or any citizen of Wyoming to assist in making such arrest. The State Game 

 Warden is hereby authorized to employ an attorney to prosecute violators of the 

 game and fish laws, when deemed necessary, such attorney to be paid from the State 

 game fund. Provided, that not more than ($200) two hundred dollars per annum be 

 expended in this manner. The State Game Warden sliall Ije required to make an 

 annual report to the Governor, and all Assistant Game Wardens be required to report 

 monthly to said State Game Warden. The State Game Warden shall be paid the 

 sum of ($1.500 ) fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly from the gen- 

 eral fund of the State together with an allowance of (S200) two hundred dollars per 

 annum for contingent expenses. 



Assistant wardens; Compensation; Bond; Forest rang-ers: Sec. 2102. 

 [As amended by Laws of 1903, chap. 44.] The State Game Warden shall have 

 power to appoint such assistants as are necessary, in the various counties of the 

 State, to proi)erly enforce the laws and he is hereby authorized and directed to 

 appoint three Assistant Game Wardens from different parts of the State, no two 

 to be appointed from any one county, to be paid an annual salary of ($900) nine 

 hundred dollars, each, payable quarterly out of the State Game Fund, and he is 

 hereby authorized and directed to appoint one or more special Assistant Game War- 

 dens as the emergency may demand, in any county of this State; said special Assist- 

 ant Game W^ardens to be paid the sum of three dollars per day during the time of 

 actual service. All salaries to be paid from the State game fund after the accounts 

 have been approved by the State Game Warden. The three Assistant State Game 

 Wardens shall execute a bond to the State of Wyoming in the penal sum of ($1,000) 

 one thousand dollars each, and all special Assistant Game Wardens shall execute a ■ 

 bond to the State of Wyoming in the penal sum of ($500) five hundred dollars each, 

 conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, said bond to be approved by 

 and filed with the State Game Warden; and they shall have the same power to make 

 arrest as the State Game Warden. Their commissions may be revoked, at any time 

 for good and suflScient cause, by the State Game Warden. Provided that persons 

 employed in this State by the Federal Government for the protection of the various 

 forest reserves and known as "forest rangers" may be appointed special Assistant 

 State Game Wardens without pay or bond, and at the pleasure of the State Game 

 Warden. And it is hereby declared by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming, 

 that the office of "forest rangers" under the Department of the Interior''' of the 

 United States shall not be incompatible with the oSice of special Assistant Game 

 Warden, within the meaning of Section 19 of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State 



« Now under the Department of Agriculture. 



