State, except live game birds, animals or fish, which shall be 
liberated. He shall, with wardens and deputy wardens and ex- 
officio wardens be authorized to serve all criminal processes for 
violations of this act which could be served by the sheriff and 
constables of this State. 
Sec. 5. He shall appoint game and fish wardens and deputy 
wardens in each county of this State, such appointees to hold 
their office for a term of two years unless sooner removed for 
cause by the commissioner. Such wardens and deputy wardens 
shall enforce all the provisions of this act and all other laws in 
reference to game and fish in their respective counties. Such 
wardens and deputy wardens shall receive $3.00 per day while 
acting under the special directions of the commissioner with 
reference to the discharge of their duties, which sum shall be 
paid out of the game fund provided for by this Act. Bach 
county warden shall receive one-fourth of all fines and forfeit¬ 
ures and penalities collected in the county in which he holds 
office imposed for violation of any of the game and fish laws 
of this State where he does not furnish the evidence necessary 
to convict. If he does arrest or cause the arrest, and furnish 
the evidence necessary to convict, then he shall have three- 
fourths of such fines, forfeitures and penalties. Any person 
arresting or causing to be arrested offenders under any of the 
game and fish laws of this State and furnishing the evidence 
necessary to convict such offenders shall receive one-half of fines, 
forfeitures and penalties imposed and collected from such offend¬ 
ers and legal fees paid to constables. The remaining portion 
of fines imposed and collected shall be forwarded to the State 
game commissioner and by him turned into* the treasury to the 
credit of the game protection fund. The county warden shall 
receive twenty-five cents for each county license issued by him, 
one dollar for each State license and three dollars for each non¬ 
resident license issued by him. All county wardens shall keep a 
record in the office of the clerk of the court in their respective 
counties, which record shall be open to the public, giving names 
of all parties holding resident, county and State license and non¬ 
resident State license issued by him. This record shall also show 
the names, offences and fines imposed on all persons convicted 
for a violation of the fish or game laws of this State in the county 
of his jurisdiction. 
Sec. 6. Any resident of the State may procure a license to 
hunt in his resident county upon the payment of the sum of one 
dollar. License to such resident shall be issued authorizing him 
to hunt throughout the State upon payment of three dollars. 
License shall be issued to non-residents of the State upon the 
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payment of the sum of fifteen dollars, which shall authorize such 
non-resident to hunt throughout the State. All license shall bear 
the date of issuance if the license is issued in the open season, 
and if issued in the closed season, shall authorize such person to 
hunt during the next succeeding open season. Such license shall 
be signed by the Commissioner and countersigned by the game 
warden of the county in which the license is issued and numbered. 
It shall contain the residence, age, sex and post office address of 
the person to whom issued; also state race, approximate height 
and weight, and color of the applicant’s hair and eyes. The 
license fees, less the warden’s fees, shall be remitted by the 
warden to the commissioner not later than the first of the follow¬ 
ing month. A person may hunt and fish in the open season in 
his own Militia District or on his own land without a license. 
Tenants and their families by and with the permission of the 
owner of the land shall be permitted to hunt and fish on the 
lands leased and rented by them without a license. All persons 
privately owning ponds shall fish at any time and in any man¬ 
ner they desire in said pond. 
Sec. 7. No person shall hunt or fish upon the lands of another 
with or without license without first having obtained permission 
from such land owner. Any person violating this section is 
hereby declared to be guilty .of a misdemeanor, and shall be 
punished as prescribed in section 12 of this act. 
Sec. 8. All moneys received by the commissioner arising 
under this act shall constitute a fund known as the game pro¬ 
tection fund, and shall be devoted to the payment of the salary 
of the commissioner, his necessary incidental expenses and the 
salary of the game wardens and deputy wardens in acting under 
the special instructions from him. Such salaries and expenses 
shall not be a charge upon the State fund, nor payable out of any 
other fund than the game protection fund. No voucher for said 
salary nor expenses shall be paid unless there shall be at the time 
sufficient money to the credit of said fund in the treasury. If 
there should be any money in the treasury at the end of the year 
to the credit of the game protection fund the amount so remain¬ 
ing shall become a part of the public school fund of the State. 
Sec. 9. The clerk of each court in which prosecutions may be 
instituted for violation of this act shall promptly report to the 
commissioner the results of said trial and the amount of fines, 
forfeitures and penalties collected, which said sum shall after the 
deductions mentioned in Section 5 of this act be forwarded to 
the game commissioner and placed to the credit of the game pro¬ 
tection fund. 
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