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Fortunately for the sportsmen of the Keystone State, Dr. Charles 
B. penrase, the president, has served continuously since Febru¬ 
ary, 1899; Mr. John M. Phillips, Vice President, since November., 
1909; Mr. W. B. Mccaleb, since February, 1911; Mr. John S. Speer, 
since December, 1914, witln^a gap of almost two years in his ser¬ 
vices because of change of administrations; Dr. Hi J. Donaldson, 
since November, 1916; and Mr. William S* Ellis, since January, 
1920. From this you will note that the majority of the Members 
.of the Board have served continuously over a comparatively long 
period of years, but increasing the length of the term of appoint 
ment would always tend toward stabilization and continuity of 
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policie s - something absolutely necessary in any conservation 
work. 
APPROPRIATIONS TO GAME COMMISSION 
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Appropriations made to the Game Commission from gen¬ 
eral funds of the Commonwealth from 1897 to 1913, inclusive, were 
as follows- 
1897 
1899.... 
..$ 8 oo,00 
800.00 
1 ^ 0 1< t t * • < • * ^ 1 * 
........ 3,000.00 
1903.. 
1909... . 
1907. 
1909. 
1911... 
1913. . 
... 97 , 400.00 
{ postage and ) 
(expressage only) 
Securing funds necessary to operate the Department suc¬ 
cessfully always gave interested sportsmen and the Game Commis¬ 
sion deep concern, because the demands of public schools, hos¬ 
pitals, highways, etc. apparently were always given preference, 
with the result that the amount appropriated to the Game Commis¬ 
sion from general funds entirely inadequate. Finally the 
sportsmen of the State decided to support a Resident Hunters' 
License law and were .successful in having the present license 
law passed by the 1913 Session of the Legislature, The funds 
paid in through this Act were accumulated in the State Treasury 
until June, 1915* Since that time the entire cost of the work 
of the Game Commission, including the. payment of bounties by the 
Game commission since April l9th, 191? amounting to almost 
$ 600 , 000.00 (including reimbursement of counties for bounties 
paid from July 29, 1913 to April 19, 1919, amounting to 
$287,469.00), the'purchase of lands for game refuge purposes in 
sections far remote from State forest lands amounting to approx¬ 
imately $129,000.00, and all other activities of the Department 
has been paid out of funds collected through the Hunters' Licen- 
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