1608 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

duties connected with said survey as said duties are prescribed by
chapter 711 of the acts of the general assembly of Maryland of 1906,
pertaining to natural oyster beds and bars.

1908, ch. 590, sec. 2.

130. After said rocks shall have been surveyed as provided in sec-
tion 129 of this article, no part of them shall be leased to any person or
persons for the purpose of planting, bedding or cultivating oysters
therein, but they shall be reserved to the public in the State of Maryland
for the sole purpose of taking clams therefrom, and shall be treated in
every particular as are the natural oyster beds or bars which have been
or shall be surveyed by the board of shell fish commissioners under
chapter 711 of the acts of the general assembly of Maryland of 1906.

1908, ch. 228.

131. The board of public works shall be and is hereby authorized
and required to rent or hire a suitable boat to assist in guarding the
tonging bottoms of Somerset county located at or near the mouth of the
Wicomico river, or adjacent thereto, and in enforcing the laws pertain-
ing thereto, at a cost not to exceed thirty dollars per month for the
hiring of said boat, and to appoint a suitable person to command said
boat at a salary of fifty dollars per month, from the first day of Septem-
ber to the 30th day of April following, of each and every successive
oyster season; and the commander of said boat shall be authorized to
select such number of seamen to serve on said boat as the board of
public works shall authorize, not to exceed two in number, at salaries
of thirty dollars each per month, during the period of his or their service
on said boat; provided, however, that the owner of such boat so hired
shall keep the same in good order and repair.