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70 CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. [ART. XIXA
law, and they shall report to the Conservation Commission whenever
required.
191C, ch. 682.
5. The Commission shall take over and exercise all of the respective
functions, discretion, powers and duties heretofore exercised' by the
Commissioners of Fisheries, the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners,
the State Conservation Bureau and the Commander of the State Fish-
ery Force and the State Game Warden, and to that end the records,
charts, papers, documents and all other papers and property -of said
boards and officers, or any of them, shall be transferred to and kept in
the office of the Conservation Commission of Maryland. The following
offices are hereby abolished, viz: The Commissioners of Fisheries, the
Board of Shell Fish Commissioners and the State Conservation Bureau.
The Commander of the State Fishery Force and the State Game
Warden are placed upon the staff of the Commission as hereinbefore
provided.
1916, ch. 682.
6. The Commission shall adopt such measures as it may deem
expedient to promote and encourage the1 leasing of the barren bottoms
of the State for purposes of oyster culture under the present or future
laws of the State, and the Commission shall take such steps as it can
to stimulate an interest in private planting thereon.
1916, ch. 682.
7. The Commission shall have charge of the operation and cultiva;
tion and replenishing of reserved areas upon the depleted natural bars
of the State, and it shall have and exercise all of the discretion hereto-
fore Vested in the Commander of the State Fishery Force as to setting
aside or reopening any of the depleted areas reserved for oyster con-
servation.
1916, ch. 682.
8. The Commission shall have control over the inspection of oysters,
fish or crabs wherever caught or sold in the State of Maryland and of
the enforcement of the cull laws and other protective measures. They
shall see that all laws relating to licenses and inspections are enforced;
and the general measurers and inspectors of oysters and the special
inspectors shall be appointed by the Commission and shall report to it
whenever required.
1916, ch. 682.
9. The funds now known as the "Oyster Fund," the "Oyster Con-
servation Fund," and the "Fund for the Conservation of Natural Oyster
Bars," are hereby consolidated into a fund to be known as the "Con-
servation Fund," and the moneys now paid or which would be hereafter
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