ART. 72] EXPENSES OF STATE FISHERY FORCE. 107

the State fishery force the said board is authorized and hereby
required to lay up and put out of commission one steamer,
and under no circumstances shall said steamer be put in com-
mission except during the dredging season, and only then in
such emergency as the board of public works may judge
is necessary that both steamers are required to enforce the
provisions of this article; and the board of public works
shall appoint a deputy commander at a salary of eighty-three
dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, who shall
in such cases take command of said steamer and ship a crew,
and as soon as the emergency is passed the said deputy com-
mander shall discharge said crew and place said steamer out
ef commission again, only one man to be retained to act as
watchman, who shall receive not more than thirty dollars per
month while so employed; and for the purpose of still further
reducing expenses, the said board of public works is author-
ized, in its discretion, to sell one of the steamers, and to turn
the funds arising from such sale over to the Comptroller, to
be placed to the credit of the oyster fund; the board of public
works is further authorized and required to reduce the num-
ber of employes on the said boats from the fifteenth day of
March until the first day of November of each year to three,
viz: captain, mate and cook, excepting the schooners Nellie,
Jackson, Folly and Baughman, which shall consist of the
three above-named crew and a seaman, being four men to each
of the above-named boats; and the board of public works is
hereby authorized to contract for sloops or vessels to guard
the line from the fifteenth day of November to the fifteenth
day of March, between the tongers and dredgers from the long
wharf at Cambridge to Bowdle's house in Talbot county, and
to rent or hire suitable boats to guard the waters of Herring
bay, Manokin river, Holland straits, Honga river, Hooper's
straits and Pocomoke river and sound, the price to be paid
for the use of such boats not to exceed thirty dollars per
month during the period of employment, and the crews of the
boats so employed, not exceeding three for each boat, shall be
paid for their services not exceeding fifty dollars per month
for the captain or master, and thirty dollars each per month