106 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

sous applying for scraping license for boats to dredge in the
Chesapeake bay after the first day of January to the fifteenth
day of March shall be required to pay only one dollar and
fifty cents gross ton for such license.

State Fishery Force.

1900, ch 380.

34. The board of public works shall have power to
appoint a suitable person to command said force, who shall be
known as the commander of the State fishery force, and shall
command the one steamer that is regularly in commission as
a part of the State fishery force, and to appoint a deputy
commander for each sailing vessel for their respective districts
from among persons of the counties whose waters comprise
the different districts, who shall be commissioned by the Gov-
ernor, and the said deputy commanders shall have power to
appoint their subordinates and select their crews, and the
terms of office of said commanders shall be for two years
unless sooner removed for incompetency or neglect of duty;
and if any of the said officers shall fail in the discharge of his
duty by reason of collusion with parties interested in violating
any of the provisions of this article, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and conviction in a
court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined or imprisoned,
at the discretion of the court; no person shall be eligible to
the office of commander of the State fishery force or deputy
commander who is the owner of, or who has any interest in
any scrape or dredge boat, and it is hereby made unlawful for
the board of public works to appoint any such person as
commander or deputy commander of any boat or vessel in the
State fishery force; the steamers and boats belonging to the
State fishery force are to be used only on business pertaining
to its official duties or on State business.

Ibid.

36. The board of public works shall have power, and it
shall be their duty to keep the steamers and said vessels in
good repair, and lor the purpose of reducing the expense of