252 GAME COMMISSIONS AND WARDENS. 



TENNESSEE, a 

 Acts of 1905, chap. 455, p. 954. 



State warden: Sec 1. * * * That the Department of Game, Fish, and For- 

 estry be, and the same is hereby, created as one of the departments of the State, and 

 that the Governor shall on the passage of this Act appoint and commission a citizen 

 of Tennessee as State Warden of game, fish, and forestry, and octennially thereafter, 

 who shall serve without salary. 



County and special wardens: Sec 2. That said State Warden of game, fish, and 

 forestry shall be authorized and empowered to appoint and commission in each 

 county of the State a citizen of said county as County Warden of game, fish, and 

 forestry, and to further appoint special Wardens for the State at large as in his judg- 

 ment the necessity for such appointment may arise. 



Deputy wardens: Sec 3. That the County Wardens of game, fish, and forestry 

 are authorized and empowered to appoint deputies in such number as in their judg- 

 ment the requirements in their respective counties may demand. 



Bond; Oath of office: Sec 4. That the State, County, [and] Special Wardens shall 

 each give bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, and the Deputy W ardens in the 

 sum of two hundred and fifty dollars each, for the faithful performance of their respect- 

 ive duties, said bonds to be filed in the Department of Game, Fish, and Forestry. 

 All Wardens shall, on appointment, take the oath prescribed for public officers. 



Removal of wardens: Sec 5. That the State Warden may appoint a secretary 

 to conduct the correspondence and detail work of his department, but the salary or 

 compensation of said Secretary shall be paid by the State Warden. When any 

 charge or charges are preferred against any County, Special, or Deputy Warden for 

 malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or for any other reason which in 

 the judgment of the State Warden is sufficient, he shall investigate the case and 

 may remove said Warden at pleasure and appoint, or cause to be appointed, another 

 in his stead. Any Warden who shall act, or assume to act, after notice of such 

 removal, shall forfeit his bond. 



Duties; Compensation: Sec 6. That all Wardens appointed under this Act are 

 hereby constituted conservators of the peace, and it shall be their right, power, and 

 duty to enforce all provisions of Chapter 169, Acts 1903, known as the "General 

 Game Law;" Chapter 118, Acts 1903, known as "An Act to protect nongame birds;" 

 Chapter 91, Acts 1901, known as the "Written Permission Law;" Chapter 121, 

 Acts 1901, known as the law prohibiting the shipment of quail, and all other laws 

 for the protection of the game, the birds, the fish, and the forests of the State as the 

 same may now exist or hereafter be enacted. All fines, penalties, forfeitures, or 

 licenses collected under any laws which said W r ardens are authorized and called 

 upon to enforce shall go to that Warden so acting or making or causing the arrest, or 

 securing the conviction, as compensation for his services, and the State Warden shall 

 make to each General Assembly a report of all receipts and disbursements and such 

 other information and recommendations as in his judgment may be necessary and 

 proper. 



Duties and powers of wardens: Sec 7. That all Wardens appointed under this 

 Act shall each and every one have and exercise all the rights, powers, and authority 

 of the Sheriffs of the respective counties, with respect, however, only to those laws 

 which they are appointed to enforce and according to the terms of those laws as 

 well as of this Act. They may serve process and have power to make arrests, 



«The official publication of the laws of Tennessee for 1907 was not available when 

 the bulletin went to press, and as material amendments were made during this ses- 

 sion and their effect upon existing law not known the sectiens are given as published 

 by the State warden in his pamphlet for 1907-8. 



