756 FISH AND FISHERIES—FISH COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 39.

1874, ch. 160.

81. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners of fisheries
after making the inspection and obtaining the information re-
quired in the preceding section, to proceed to the selection of
proper locations for the propagation 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 pro-
tecting the small fish, until fit to be distributed, and then to dis-
tribute the same among such waters of this State as shall be
deemed proper.

1888, ch. 497, sec. 1.

82. 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 propagating of young fish
and also at such other times as they may not actually be engaged
in the hatching and propagating 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 82 to 86; 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 commissioners, under the laws of this State, in the
constructing, building, erecting, planting, keeping and maintain-
ing 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 82 to 86, 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.

Ibid. sec. 2.

83. 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,