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Game wardens: Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of 

 the police juries of each parish of the State to appoint one or more reputable citizens 

 to act as game wardens in that particular parish, and said officers shall have power 

 and authority to arrest without warrant any person or persons found violating any 

 of the provisions of this act, and to search without warrant any cold storage or 

 refrigerating plant, car, vessel, vehicle, or package, wherein he or they may believe 

 any birds named in the act may be kept or stored contrary to the provisions of the 

 act. The said game wardens so appointed shall also have the right to confiscate all 

 game birds which he or they may find in the possession of any person or persons 

 during the close season, and this irrespective of the time when or place where such 

 birds may have been killed or caught, and such person or persons shall have no 

 redress at law for such seizure of property unlawfully had in possession. 



Informer: Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person or persons report- 

 ing to the game wardens or other officers authorized under the law of the State to 

 institute a prosecution against any person or persons,, or corporations, for violations 

 of the provisions of this act, shall receive for such report, in case of conviction 50 per 

 cent of the fine collected from such person or persons, or corporations; the remain- 

 der of the said fine levied and collected shall go to the State game protective fund. 

 Otherwise the whole fine collected shall go to said State game protective fund. 



Approved July 5, 1904. 



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Revised Statutes, 1903, chap. 32, p. 351. 



Commissioners ; Clerk : Sec. 34. The governor, with the advice and consent of 

 the council, shall appoint three persons to be commissioners of inland fisheries and 

 game, one of whom shall be the land agent of the state, and shall hold the office so 

 long as he shall continue to be land agent ; the other two commissioners shall hold 

 their office for three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 

 Said commissioners shall be provided with an office in the state capitol, with suit- 

 able furniture, stationery and other facilities for the transaction of the business of 

 the department, and they may appoint a clerk. 



Laws of 1905, chap. 84. 



Chairman : Sec. 1. The governor with the advice and consent of the council shall 

 appoint one of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game t to be the chairman 

 thereof, and he shall be designated and commissioned as such for the term of two years. 

 After the expiration of the first term a chairman shall be appointed in the manner 

 and for the term now prescribed by law for the appointment of any one of said com- 

 missioners ; but the land agent shall not be eligible to the office of chairman. 



Compensation ; Allowances : Sec. 2. The chairman of the commissioners of 

 inland fisheries and game shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars ; 

 the land agent, forest commissioner and member of the commissioners of inland 

 fisheries and game, combining the three offices in one appointee, two thousand 

 dollars ; the other member of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, one 

 thousand dollars, and in addition to their salaries, actual traveling expenses to be 

 audited by the governor and council. The salary of the clerk of the commissioners 

 of inland fisheries and game shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars, and the salary 

 of the clerk to the land agent and forest commissioner shall be one thousand dollars. 

 The governor and council may allow such sum as may be necessary for extra clerk 

 hire, to be paid out of license fees. 



Quarterly payment: Sec. 3. Said salaries are payable quarterly, on the first 

 days of January, April, July and October of each year, from the state treasury, and 

 are in full for all services performed by them in their official capacities. 



Approved March 17, 1905. 



