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other licenses in his assigned territory, and the laws relating to the collec-
tion of the oyster tax, and shall pay¹ on such other duties as may be pre-
scribed by the Commissioner of Fisheries.

1939, ch. 353, sec. 12A.

12A. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commission, may
appoint not more than fifty deputy- inspectors, each of whom shall receive
such salary not to exceed $1,200 per annum, as may be fixed in the budget.
The Commissioner shall have the right to employ such deputy inspectors
by the month or by the year. The deputy inspectors shall have and exercise
the powers and duties herein conferred upon the county inspectors and
when so directed by the Commissioner shall act under the control, super-
vision and direction of the county inspectors.: Both the county inspectors
and deputy inspectors shall have and exercise the rights, powers and duties
of the former deputy commanders, general inspectors, special inspectors,
inspectors, general measurers, measurers and members of the State Fishery
Force, subject in all cases to the orders of the Commissioner of Fisheries.

1939, ch. 353, sec. 12B.

12B. The Commissioner shall appoint as county or deputy inspectors
such male persons as can read and write, and are sufficiently intelligent to
pass an examination in the making out of reports, and upon other phases
of their duties, as determined by the Commission. No person shall be
appointed as a county inspector or deputy inspector until he shall have
passed a physical examination to be given by a physician selected by the
Commission.

1939, ch. 353, sec. 12C.

12C. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to promote the advertis-
ing of the seafood products of this State and to prepare such advertising
or other matter as it may deem advantageous to the welfare and improve-
ment of the seafood industry, and shall cooperate with the seafood industry
in any lawful manner it may deem proper for the benefit of the fisheries.

1939, ch. 353, sec. 12D.

12D. All sums of money provided to be paid to the Conservation Depart-
ment under the provisions of Section 16 of Article 39 of the Annotated
Code, as enacted by Chapter 471 of the .Acts of 1929, shall hereafter be
paid over to the Commission of Fisheries and be annually expended by it
in the propagation of tidewater fish.

¹ This is the way the Act reads.