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sioner may employ a clerk at an expense not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five 

 dollars per annum. 



Propagation: Sec. 3. The state fish and game commissioner shall have the care 

 and management of the state fish hatcheries and the propagation of fish and game in 

 the state as is now and hereafter shall be provided by law, and shall enforce the laws 

 relating to the protection of fish and game. 



Record; Report: Sec 4. He shall keep a correct account of the proceedings and 

 business pertaining to his office, and shall submit to the legislature biennially a 

 detailed report of which not exceeding two thousand copies shall be printed at the 

 expense of the state. 



Accounts: Sec. 5. He shall render to the state auditor an itemized account of all 

 money expended by him in the care and management of the state fish hatcheries 

 and in the protection of fish and game, and upon approval of the same, the state 

 auditor shall draw an order upon the state treasurer for the amount thereof in favor 

 of said commissioner. Such order, however, not to exceed in amount the sum appro- 

 priated under section 8 of this act. 



County wardens: Sec 6. [As amended by Laws of 1906, No. 152.] The state 

 fish and game commissioner shall, annually, in the month of December, appoint at 

 least one and not more than two, fish and game county wardens for each county, and 

 as many deputy fish and game wardens in each county as he may deem necessary. 

 Said wardens shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are appointed, 

 and said commissioner may remove such wardens from office and fill vacancies which 

 may occur. 



Powers: Sec 7. [As amended by Laws of 1906, No. 152.] Said wardens shall be 

 under the direction and supervision of said commissioner, and shall act and incur 

 expense only under his direction, and, when so acting, said wardens shall have the 

 same powers as a constable while engaged in and with reference to their work as 

 wardens. 



Compensation; Reports; Expenses: [Added by Laws of 1906, No. 152, sec. 3.] 

 Said county wardens shall receive two dollars a day and actual expenses while offi- 

 cially employed. Said deputy wardens shall receive one dollar and a half a day, 

 and actual expenses, while officially employed. Said wardens shall report to said 

 commissioner at such time and in such manner as he may direct. All accounts of 

 said wardens for per diem and expenses shall be upon blanks to be furnished by said 

 commissioner and such accounts shall be sworn to by said wardens and when 

 approved by said commissioner the auditor of accounts shall draw orders therefor. 



Appropriation: Sec 8. [As amended by Laws of 1906, No. 153.] The sum of 

 fifty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated annually for the care and mainte- 

 nance of the state fish hatchery, and for the protection and preservation of fish and 

 game. If any part of such appropriation remains unexpended at the end of any 

 fiscal year, the unexpended portion shall be carried over and added to the fund for 

 the following year, and so from year to year. 



Prosecuting" officers: Sec 9. The state fish and game commissioner for the state, 

 town grand jurors and state's attorneys shall prosecute for all violations of this act. 



Game fund: Sec 11. All money collected from fines imposed for violations of any 

 law relating to fish and game shall be paid into the state treasurer [treasury] and 

 used for the purpose of this act. 



Approved December 7, 1904. 



Vermont Statutes, 1894, chap. 96, p. 382. 



Search: Sec 1954. [As amended by Acts of 1896, No. 35.] A justice may grant a 

 warrant for searching in the day time, a dwelling-house or other place, * * *; fish 

 or game believed to have been taken contrary to law, or implements or devices for 

 taking fish or game, subject to seizure or unlawfully possessed; where the discovery 

 of such articles may tend to convict a person of offense. 

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