782 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

The acts and duties to be done and performed by said Board under
this sub-title may be done and performed by two of said Commissioners,
and in all cases the decision of a majority of the Commissioners shall
be binding. One of said Commissioners shall be designated by the
Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland as President, and his
salary shall, be two thousand dollars a year. The salary of each of the
other Commissioners shall be eighteen hundred dollars a year. The
said Commissioners shall be allowed to employ a Chief Clerk upon a
salary of twelve hundred dollars a year, and such assistants, not exceed-
ing three in number, and 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 Commis-
sioners not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars a year. If the Com-
missioners deem it expedient to employ a hydrographic engineer, who is
also a biologist, capable of. investigating oyster propagation, an engi-
neer 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 salaries, outlays and disbursements author-
ized by this sub-title shall be paid out of the general treasury of the
State of Maryland upon requisitions 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 Commis-
sioners composing said Board shall, immediately after their appoint-
ment, file in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals separate
bonds, with a surety or sureties to be approved by the State Treasurer,
in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties imposed by this sub-title. The said Commis-
sioners shall take and subscribe before the Governor of the State an

official oath prescribed by the Constitution. The said Commissioners
shall have an office in the City of Baltimore.

1906, ch. 711, sec. 89. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 89.

91. As soon as practicable after the first day of April, 1906, the
said Commissioners shall organize and shall at once proceed, with the
assistance of such person or persons as may be detailed by the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the United States Fish Commis-
sioner, to aid them in their work, and of such persons as may be
appointed under the preceding Section, to have laid out, surveyed and
designated on the said charts, the natural beds and bars, and shall cause
to be marked and defined as accurately as practicable, the limits and