OYSTERS. 2303

An. Code, sec. 128. 1910, oh. 735, sec. 124 (p. 214).

152. The said board of shell fish commissioners shall in no case con-
tract any obligation or incur any indebtedness in excess of money at the
time of the incurring of said obligation or contracting of said debt, in the
state treasury to the credit of the natural oyster re-shelling fund.
See notes to sec. 148.

An. Code, sec. 129. 1908, ch. 590, sec. 1.

153. It shall be the duty of the board of shell fish commissioners, as
soon after April 6, 1908, as practicable, to have laid out, surveyed and
designated on charts provided for such purpose, gravel rock, ware rock
and flat rock, being clam rocks located in the waters of Pocompke sound,
in Somerset county, and State of Maryland, and shall cause to be marked
and defined as accurately as practicable the limits and boundaries of each
of the above named rocks, and they shall take true and accurate notes of
said survey and mark the report and perform all other duties connected
with said survey as said duties are prescribed by chapter 711 of the acts
of the general assembly of Maryland of 1906, pertaining to natural oyster
beds and bars.

An. Code, sec. 130. 1908, ch. 590, sec. 2.

154. After said rocks shall have been surveyed as provided in section
153 of this article, no part of them shall be leased to any person or persons
for the purpose of planting, bedding or cultivating oysters therein, but
they shall be reserved to the public in the State of Maryland for the sole
purpose of taking clams therefrom, and shall be treated in every particu-
lar as are the natural oyster beds or bars which have been or shall be sur-
veyed by the board of shell fish commissioners under chapter 711 of the
acts of the general assembly of Maryland of 1906.

An. Code, sec. 131. 1908, ch. 228.

155. The board of public works shall be and is hereby authorized and
required to rent or hire a suitable boat to assist in guarding the tonging
bottoms of Somerset county located at or near the mouth of the Wicomico
river, or adjacent thereto, and in enforcing the laws pertaining thereto,
at a cost not to exceed thirty dollars per month for the hiring of said boat,
and to appoint a suitable person to command said boat at a salary of fifty
dollars per month, from the first day of September to the 30th day of
April following, of each and every successive oyster season; and the com-
mander of said boat shall be authorized to select such number of seamen
to serve on said boat as the board of public works shall authorize, not to
exceed two in number, at salaries of thirty dollars each per month, during
the period of his or their service on said boat; provided, however, that
the owner of such boat so hired shall keep the same in good order and
repair.