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they may need for the purpose of re-shelling the natural beds, and in
inviting proposals for such shells they may prescribe that the shells
shall be delivered to the superintendent of natural beds, or to his order,
at some convenient place for the shipment of the said shells, or they
may require that the said shells shall be delivered by the sellers thereof
on such particular natural bed or beds as the commission may then be
engaged in re-shelling, and may require the seller of such shells to dis-
tribute them under the direction and control of the superintendent of
natural beds. If they shall buy such shells to be delivered otherwise
than on the natural beds, the board of shell fish commissioners shall
have the power to cause the said shells to be taken from the place at
which they are delivered to the said superintendent of natural beds to
the said natural beds, and to cause the said shells to be there, under the
superintendent, or the superintendent of natural oyster beds, properly
distributed on the bed or beds, which the board of shell fish commis-
sioners may then be engaged in re-shelling.*

1910, ch. 735, sec. 123 (p. 214).

127. For the purpose of discharging the duties imposed upon them
by sections 124 to 128, the board of shell fish commissioners shall have
the same control and direction and to the same extent over the state
fishery force, as is given to the said board of shell fish commissioners
by section 99 of this article for the purpose of performing the duties
imposed upon the board of shell fish commissioners by chapter 711 of
the acts of 1906.*

As to the state fishery force, see sec. 34, et seq.

1910, ch. 735, sec. 124 (p. 214).

128. The said board of shell fish commissioners shall in no case
contract any obligation or incur any indebtedness in excess of money
at the time of the incurring of said obligation or contracting of said
debt, in the state treasury to the credit of the natural oyster re-shelling
fund.*

1908, ch. 590, sec. 1.

129. It shall be the duty of the board of shell fish commissioners,
as soon after April 6, 1908, as practicable, to have laid out, surveyed
and designated on charts provided for such purpose, gravel rock, ware
rock and flat rock, being clam rocks located in the waters of Pocomoke
sound, in Somerset county, and State of Maryland, and shall cause to
be marked and defined as accurately as practicable the limits and boun-
daries of each of the above named rocks, and they shall take true and
accurate notes of said survey and mark the report and perform all other

* Section 124 to 128 if not void under the decision of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland in Foote v. Clagett, filed June 23, 1911—see Daily Record, June 29,
1911—would seem to be rendered inoperative for all practical purposes by that
decision.

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