ART. 72] OYSTER CULTUEE. 1595

not more than may be absolutely needed for the performance of the
work of the board, at graded salaries, to be paid by the commissioners,
not to exceed one thousand dollars a year for any such assistants, as
it may deem necessary to aid it in the proper performance of its duties,
as prescribed in this sub-title. The said commissioners shall employ a
competent surveyor, who shall also be a hydrographic engineer, upon a
salary to be named by said commissioners, not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars a year. If the commissioners deem it expedient to
employ a hydrographic engineer who is also a biologist, capable of
investigating oyster propagation, an engineer of such qualification may,
in their discretion, be employed. The sum of five hundred dollars per
annum shall be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of
said engineer, if he be a biologist, who shall, in that event, establish one
or more stations for said investigation of oyster propagation. All sala-
ries, outlays and disbursements authorized by this sub-title shall be
paid out of the general treasury of the State of Maryland upon requisi-
tions made by the board of shell fish commissioners, endorsed by the
comptroller of the State, but the same shall be repaid out of the first
revenues arising from the leasing of land for oyster culture contemplated
by this sub-title. The commissioners composing said board shall, imme-
diately after their appointment, file in the office of the clerk of the
court of appeals separate bonds, with a surety or slreties to be approved
by the state treasurer, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned
for the faithful performance of the duties imposed by this sub-title.
The said commissioners shall take and subscribe before the governor of
the State an official oath prescribed by the constitution. The said com-
missioners shall have an office in the city of Annapolis.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 86. 1910, ch. 401, sec. 85 (p. 214).

87. The commissioners shall keep at its* office in the city of Balti-
more, books of record, in which shall be recorded all leases, assign-
ments and other conveyances of land to be used for the planting or culti-
vation of oysters in accordance with this sub-title. A set of clear and
simple forms for all subsequent conveyances of any kind shall be pre-
pared by the board, with the advice of the attorney-general, and no title
shall be vested in any lessee or transferee of any interest or estate
acquired under this sub-title until the conveyance or conveyances evi-
dencing such leases or transfers shall have been recorded in the office
of the board of shell fish commissioners.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 86. 1910, ch. 401, sec, 86 (p. 215).

88. The board of shell fish commissioners shall, as soon as prac-
ticable after April 2, 1906, cause to be made a true and accu-
rate survey of the natural oyster beds, bars and rocks of this State,
said survey to be made with reference to fixed and permanent objects
on the shore, giving courses and distances, to be fully described and set
out in a written report of said survey, as hereinafter required. A true
and accurate delineation of the same shall be made on copies of pub-

*Evidently a typographical error in the act.