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guard boat of the second district, who shall receive fifty dollars per month
for the year, and he shall appoint a mate at a salary of forty dollars per
month and two seamen at a salary of thirty dollars each per month, each
to be selected from the district in which they are respectively to serve.

An. Code, sec. 43. 1904, sec. 42. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 41. 1904, ch. 202, sec. 1. 1908, ch. 609.

45. The members of said force shall at all times keep themselves neatly
clothed in proper uniform when on duty at their own expense. The officers
and crews of the steamers and sailing vessels of the state fishery force
shall receive one ration per day of the quality such as is allowed by law
to the officers and crews of the revenue marines of the United States, and
the sum of thirty cents per day for each man is hereby appropriated to
carry into effect the provisions of this section, which sums are payable out
of the oyster funds of the State of Maryland to and upon the approval of
the commander of the state fishery force; provided, however, that the
provisions of this section shall only apply to the officers and crews of the
state fishery force employed on steamers and vessels owned by the State
of Maryland. And nothing herein shall apply to the officers and crews
upon any boat or boats leased or hired by the State.

An. Code, sec. 44. 1904, sec. 43. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 4'3.

46. It shall be the duty of all officers of the oyster police force to dili-
gently watch and guard and to arrest all violators of any of the provisions
of this article, and the commanders of both the vessels and steamers shall
keep their boats on duty at all times both day and night so far as pos-
sible, Sundays included, and shall cruise near to the line dividing the
grounds which they are assigned to guard from the dredging grounds, and
shall harbor as near said line as it is possible for them to do, and shall
remain on board their boats at all times, unless disabled by sickness or
excused by the commander of the force, and shall keep a log of their move-
ments, and shall once in each month forward a copy of such log to the
office of the commander: any violation of duty in these respects shall be
deemed a sufficient cause for the removal of any officer, and he shall be so
removed.

See notes to sec. 36.

An. Code, sec. 45. 1904, sec. 44. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 44.

47. The state fishery force shall have authority to enforce all laws of
this State relating to fish, whether general or local, and the several deputy
commanders of sloops and vessels shall be required to visit the tributaries
and streams of their respective districts at least once in two weeks between
the first day of May and the first day of October, and at any other time
when notified by citizens or others of violations, and they shall arrest and
bring to trial all persons found violating any section of this article and
cause them to be tried and punished as provided by law.

Under act of 1886, ch. 296, sec. 41, officers of the state fishery force had authority
to arrest without a warrant. A written charge need not be filed with magistrate
Kane v. State, 70 Md. 548.
As to fish and fisheries, see art. 39.
See notes to sec. 36.