1456 ARTICLE 39.

States and with the commissioners of fisheries appointed by the different
States and report the result of their inspection to the governor of this
State as soon as practicable, and they shall examine into the feasibility
of cutting a channel around the Great Falls of the Potomac to admit the
passage of fish from tide water into the upper Potomac, and they shall
also inquire into the expediency of constructing fishways or fish-ladders to
admit the passage of fish over dams or other obstructions in the upper
Potomac or elsewhere in the State.

An. Code, sec. 101. 1904, sec. 92. 1888, sec. 81. 1874, ch. 150, sec. 3.

118. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners of fisheries after
making the inspection and obtaining the information required in the pre-
ceding section to proceed to the selection of proper locations for the propa-
gation and culture of such food fishes as it shall be deemed desirable to
introduce into the waters of this State, and obtain the necessary ova and
construct and erect suitable houses and devices for hatching the same and
protecting the small fish until fit to be distributed and then to distribute
the same among such waters of this State as shall be deemed proper.

An. Code, sec. 102. 1904, sec. 93. 1888, sec. 82. 1888, ch. 497, sec. 1.

119. The fish commissioners are directed and required, together with
such persons as may be in their employment, to use all means in their
power for the destruction of eels; it shall be their duty while engaged in
the hatching and propagation of young fish, and also at such other times
as they may not actually be engaged in the hatching and propagation of
young fish as aforesaid, also to construct, build, erect, plant, keep, alter
and maintain eel pots and all such other devices as they may from time to
time deem advisable and practicable for the catching and destruction of
eels under the provisions of sections 119 to 123, and the said fish com-
missioners are hereby directed and required to expend and use one-fourth
of the money appropriated by the State for the use of said fish commis-
sioners under the laws of this State in the constructing, building, erect-
ing, planting, keeping and maintaining pots and such other devices as
they may deem advisable and practicable for the catching and destroying
of eels as aforesaid and in carrying out the provisions of sections 119 to
123 in addition to other moneys hereinafter directed to be used for said
purposes. The amount appropriated hereby to be expended within the
waters of the Wicomico river.

An. Code, sec. 103. 1904, sec. 94. 1888, sec. 83. 1888, ch. 497, sec. 2.

120. Whenever the said fish commissioners shall have any hatching
apparatus for the propagation of fish in any of the waters of this State,
they are hereby directed and required to establish, keep and maintain in
connection therewith, and in said waters, eel pots and all such other de-
vices as aforesaid within their power, as required by the preceding section.

An. Code, sec. 104. 1904, sec. 95. 1888, sec. 84. 1888, ch. 497, sec. 2.

121. It shall be the duty of the said fish commissioners, their said
employes, and all persons who are required to carry out the provisions of