156 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



for such county, the county Commissioners shall enter upon their minutes the fact of 

 the presentation of such petition and shall forthwith request the Governor of the 

 State to appoint such officer, and shall recommend some suitable person resident of 

 such county for the office. Upon such request and recommendation, the Governor 

 shall appoint a Fish and Game Warden for such county, who shall hold the office for 

 two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Before entering upon 

 the duties of such office, the person appointed thereto shall be required to enter into 

 a bond with good and sufficient surety, or sureties, to the Governor of the State of 

 Florida, in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance 

 of the duties of the office to which he has been appointed, such bond to be approved 

 as are the bonds of other county officers. The Governor may at any time remove 

 such officer for good cause; and it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to 

 report to the Governor any neglect of duty on the part of such officer, and the Gov- 

 ernor shall investigate such charges, and if satisfied that they are well founded, shall 

 cause suit to be instituted on the bond of such officer for the penalty. 



Duties, Deputy wardens: Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Fish and Game 

 Warden to see that the laws for the protection of fish, oysters and game in the 

 county for which he is appointed are observed and obeyed and to make complaint 

 to the proper judicial authority of the county for any infraction or violation thereof, 

 and to see that the offender is prosecuted. The Warden may appoint Deputies in 

 convenient localities in the county to assist him in the enforcement of the laws for 

 the protection of fish and game. 



Powers: Sec 4. The Wardens and deputies shall have power to arrest and take 

 before a. magistrate, and subject to trial, according to law, any person violating any 

 of the laws of the State for the protection and preservation of fish and game. And 

 the magistrate may order the seizure of any of the implements used by the offenders 

 in violation of such law. 



Responsibility: Sec 5. Any fish and game Warden, or his deputy, who shall 

 fail to take cognizance and make complaint to a magistrate of the violation of any of 

 the laws for the protection and preservation of fish and game in this State when the 

 same is brought to his notice shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, 

 and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days. 



Peace officers: Sec 6. In any county where no fish and game Warden has been 

 appointed, the sheriff shall perform the duties of that office, provided, that nothing 

 herein shall be construed to relieve the sheriff of counties where fish and game 

 Wardens have been appointed from the duty of arresting and bringing to trial the 

 violators of any law of the State for the protection and preservation of fish and game, 

 but their duties in such cases shall be the same as in the case of violation of any 

 other criminal law of the State. 



Compensation: Sec 7. The compensation of the fish and game Warden shall be 

 prescribed by the County Commissioners of the county for which he is appointed, 

 and shall be paid by such county. Provided; That in no case shall the amount paid 

 exceed sixty dollars per month. 



Approved May 20, 1905. 



Laws of 1903, chap. 5293, p. 293. 



AN ACT To Regulate the Hunting of Deer, Turkey, and other Wild Game in LaFayette County. 



Arrest without warrant: Sec 1. * * * Trials for violation of this act shall be 

 before the county judge or justice of the peace; and the game wardens of such 

 county are hereby authorized and required to arrest without warrant any person 

 violating the provisions of this act and to take him forthwith before the nearest 

 justice of the peace or county judge to be dealt with according to law. 



