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dental expenses while in the discharge of their official duties not exceeding seven 

 hundred and fifty dollars a year. * * * Other protectors including the special 

 assistant oyster protector, shall receive six hundred dollars a year and an allowance 

 for expenses not exceeding four hundred and fifty dollars a year. Each of said pro- 

 tectors shall receive one-half of the fines and penalties less the expenses of recover- 

 ing the sum collected in actions brought upon information furnished by him. 



Duties; Powers: [Sec] 173. [As amended by Laws of 1905, chap. 285.] Game 

 protectors shall enforce all laws relating to fish and game; all laws of boards of super- 

 visors relating to the same; and shall have power to execute all warrants and search 

 warrants issued for a violation of the forest, fish and game law; to serve a summons 

 issuing from justices' court; to serve subpoenas issued for the examination and 

 investigation or trial of offenses against any of said laws; to make search where they 

 have cause to believe that fish or game is possessed in violation of law, and without 

 search warrant to examine the contents of any boat, car, box, locker, basket, 

 creel, crate, gamebag or other package, and the contents of any building other than 

 a dwelling house, to ascertain whether any of the provisions of this act or of any 

 law for the protection of fish, shellfish, and game have been violated, and to use 

 such force as may be necessary for the purpose of such examination and inspection; 

 and with a search warrant to search and examine the contents of any building or 

 dwelling house; to arrest without warrant any person committing a misdemeanor 

 under the provisions of this act in their presence and take such person immediately 

 before a magistrate having jurisdiction for trial. 



Record; Report: [Sec] 174. Each game protector shall keep a daily record of his 

 official acts, and at the close of each month report the same to the chief game pro- 

 tector. The salary and traveling expenses of a protector shall not be payable except 

 upon the certificate of the chief game protector that such protector has made the 

 required report and properly performed his duties. 



Report: [Sec] 175. The chief game protector shall make a monthly report to the 

 commission of the operation of his department during the preceding month, and 

 shall report any negligence or failure to perform duty on the part of any game pro- 

 tector, and shall make such further reports as shall be required by the commission. 



Special game protectors: [Sec] 176. The commission may in its discretion 

 appoint a person recommended by a majority of the supervisors of any county or by 

 any game club incorporated for the protection of fish or game, as special game pro- 

 tector. Such special game protectors shall hold office during the pleasure of the 

 commission and shall have the same powers as game protectors except the right to 

 search without warrant, but shall not receive pay from the state. They shall make 

 reports in the same manner as game protectors. 



Monroe county protectors: Secs. 176a-e. [Added by Laws of 1905, chap. 

 660. — Four special game protectors shall be appointed for Monroe County, on April 

 first of each year, upon recommendation of the board of supervisors of the county. 

 It shall be the duty of such special game protectors to arrest persons found setting, 

 using, or in possession of unlicensed nets or other illegal fishing devices, and to report 

 monthly to the forest fish and game commission and to the board of supervisors 

 of Monroe County the number of nets captured, and arrests made, together with 

 result of trials, and statement of expenses and disbursements.] 



Peace officers: [Sec] 177. Peace officers shall have the same powers as game 

 protectors under this act, except the right of search without warrant. 



Disposition of nets, etc.: [Sec] 178. [As amended by Laws of 1905, chap. 

 657.] Nets, pounds or other devices unlawfully had, set or used in or upon any of 

 the waters or islands of this State, for the purpose of taking fish or game in violation 

 of this act, are hereby declared to be public nuisances and shall be summarily 

 destroyed and abated by any game protector, or may be by a private person; pro- 

 vided, however, that the forest, fish and game commissioner may direct a game 



