2284 ARTICLE 72.

An. Code, sec. 86. 1906, ch. 711, sec. 84. 1914, ch. 265, sec. 84.

99. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 1 of Maryland is hereby
created. The said Board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall
be a resident of one of the tidewater Counties of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, another a resident of one of the tidewater Counties of the
Western Shore, and the third a resident of the City of Baltimore, and
one of whom shall be a member of the minority party at the time of their
appointment. The term of each of the members of said Board shall be
two years from the first Monday in May after his appointment. They shall
be appointed by the Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland.
No member of said Board of Shell Fish Commissioners shall be or become
in any manner interested in any land leased or taken up for bedding,
planting or cultivating oysters. The acts and duties to be done and per-
formed 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
exceeding 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 per-
formance of its duties, as prescribed in this sub-title. The said Commis-
sioners shall employ a competent surveyor, who shall also be a hydro-
graphic engineer, upon a salary to be named by said Commissioners not
exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars a year. If the Commissioners deem
it expedient to employ a hydrographic engineer, who is also a biologist,
capable of investigating oyster propagation, an engineer of such qualifica-
tion may, in their discretion, be employed. The sum of five hundred dol-
lars 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 sal-
aries, outlays and disbursements authorized 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 Comp-
troller 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 Commissioners composing said Board shall, immediately
after their appointment, file in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Ap-
peals 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

1 By ch. 682 of acts of 1916 (art. 19A) the board of shell fish commissioners was
superseded by the conservation commission. By ch...29 of acts of 1922 (p. 68), the
conservation commission was superseded by the conservation commissioner—see arts.
19A and 41.