1574 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

1904, art. 72, sec. 30. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 35.

37. The board of public works shall have power to remove any offi-
cer of said force for neglect of duty or incompetency; and the com-
mander of the force shall have power to suspend any officer of the force
for a period not exceeding thirty days for any neglect of duty; and any
officer commanding in said force shall have power to remove any sub-
ordinate under his command and to appoint a person to fill the vacancy
whenever the interest of said service may, in his judgment, require
him so to do.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 36. 1896, ch. 418. 1900, ch. 380.

38. The board of public works shall have power and it shall be
their duty to keep the steamers of said vessels in good repair, and for
the purpose of reducing the expense of the state fishery force the said
board is authorizd and hereby required to lay up and put out. of com-
mission one steamer, and under no circumstances shall said steamer
be put in commission except during the dredging season, and only then
in such emergency as the board of public works may judge is necessary
that both steamers are required to enforce the provisions of this article;
and the board of public works shall appoint a deputy commander at a
salary of eighty-three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month,
who shall in such cases take command of said steamer and ship a crew,
and as soon as the emergency is passed the said deputy commander shall
discharge said crew and place said steamer out of commission again,
only one man to be retained to act as watchman, who shall receive not
more than thirty dollars per month while so employed; .and for the pur-
pose of still further reducing expenses, the said board of public works
is authorized, in its discretion, to sell one of the steamers and to turn
the funds arising from such sale over to the comptroller to be placed to
the credit of the oyster fund; the board of public works is further
authorized and required to reduce the number of employes on the said
boats from the fifteenth day of March until the first day of November
of each year to three, viz.: captain, mate and cook, excepting the
schooners Nellie, Jackson, Folly and Baughman, which shall consist of
the three above-named crew and a seaman, being four men to each of
the above-named boats; and the board of public works is hereby author-
ized to contract for sloops or vessels to guard the line from the fifteenth
day of November to the fifteenth day of March, between the tongers
and dredgers from the long wharf at Cambridge to Bowdle's house in
Talbot county, and to rent or hire suitable boats to guard the waters of
Herring bay, Manokin river, Holland straits, Honga river, Hooper's
straits and Pocomoke river and sound, the price to be paid for the use
of such boats not to exceed thirty dollars per month during the period
of employment, and the crews of the boats so employed, not exceeding
three for each boat, shall be paid for their services not exceeding fifty
dollars per month for the captain or master, and thirty dollars each per
month for their several assistants; provided further, that the board of
public works is hereby authorized to contract for a guard-boat to protect