162 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



missioner and shall report to and receive their instructions from him. Such game 

 wardens and deputy game wardens shall be subject to removal by the State Game 

 Commissioner at any time. 



Powers; Duties; Peace officers; Seizure: [Sec] 17. Such State Game Com- 

 missioner, game warden, and their deputies shall have full power to execute and 

 serve all warrants and processes of law issued by any justice of the peace or police 

 magistrate, or by any court having jurisdiction under the law relating to the game 

 in the same manner as any constable may serve and execute such process, and may 

 arrest on sight and without warrant, any person detected by them actually violating 

 any of the provisions of the laws of the State relating to game and birds, and may 

 take such person so offending before any court having jurisdiction of the offense, and 

 make proper complaint before such court, which shall proceed with the case in the 

 manner and form provided by law for misdemeanor. It shall further be the duty of 

 such State Game Commissioner, game wardens or their deputies, upon receiving any 

 information that any law relative to game and birds has been violated, to immedi- 

 ately cause a thorough examination of such complaint to be made, and to cause pro- 

 ceedings to be instituted if the proof at hand warrants; and all sheriffs, deputy 

 sheriffs, coroners and police officers of the State are hereby declared to be ex officio 

 deputy game wardens and it shall be the duty of each and every one of them to 

 assist the State Game Commissioner, game wardens and their deputies in the enforce- 

 ment of the State game laws the same as it is their duty to assist in the enforcement 

 of other laws, and such State Game Commissioner, game wardens and deputy game 

 wardens shall seize on sight, without process, any game found in the possession of 

 any person or corporation which is so in possession contrary to law. 



Compensation; Expenses; Propagation: [Sec] 18. [As amended by Laws 

 of 1907.] Such State Game Commissioner shall receive a salary of twenty-five 

 hundred dollars per year, and his actual expenses and disbursements while traveling 

 in the line of his duties. He shall also be allowed such printing, stationery, postage, 

 office rent, office furniture and supplies, clerical and other assistance, not to exceed 

 ten employes, as is necessary to enable him to properly perform the duties of State 

 Game Commissioner and carry out the provisions of this act. The game wardens 

 provided for in this act shall receive nine hundred dollars per annum, payable 

 monthly. In addition to the salary per annum provided for, such game wardens 

 shall receive their actual and necessary expenses incurred while working under the 

 direction of the State Game Commissioner. The deputy game wardens appointed 

 for any county shall receive a per diem, when actually employed, not exceeding two 

 dollars per day and necessary traveling expenses, to be fixed by the State Game 

 Commissioner. Special game wardens appointed under this act shall serve without 

 pay, except that they shall receive one-half of all fines recovered for violations of 

 this act in cases where they have filed the complaint. The deputy game wardens 

 shall also receive one-half of all fines recovered for violations of this act, in cases 

 where they file the complaint; the remaining one-half of the fine to be paid into the 

 State game protection fund. And in cases where the violator does not pay a fine, 

 but is committed to jail, said deputy and special game wardens shall be reimbursed 

 for their actual expenses; but such expenses shall not be paid in any case other than 

 game cases or cases relating to license. Should the State game protection fund become 

 exhausted during any year, the State Game Commissioner shall have the power and 

 authority to suspend any number or all game wardens or deputies until such fund is 

 again replenished. Should at any time a surplus accumulate in the State game pro- 

 tection fund, over and above the amount necessary for the operating expenses of the 

 department, the State Game Commissioner shall have the power and authority to use 

 such surplus for the purchase and propagation of quail, prairie chicken, pheasants 

 and other game birds and animals, for the purpose of restocking sections of the State 

 in which there exists a scarcity of the above mentioned game birds, and for exter- 



