1162 FISH AND FISHERIES. [ART. 39

tageous, and with such object they shall communicate with the
commissioner general of fisheries of the United States and
with the commissioners of fisheries appointed by the different
States and report the result of their inspection to the governor
of this State as soon as practicable, and they shall examine
into the feasibility of cutting a channel around the Great Falls
of the Potomac to admit the passage of fish from tide water
into the upper Potomac, and they shall also inquire into the
expediency of constructing fishways or fish-ladders to admit
the passage of fish over dams or other obstructions in the upper
Potomac or elsewhere in the State.

1888, art. 39, sec. 81. 1874, ch. 150, sec. 3.

92. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners of fish-
eries after making the inspection and obtaining the information
required 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 protecting the small fish until fit to be distributed and
then to distribute the same among such waters of this State as
shall be deemed proper.

Ibid. sec. 82. 1888, ch. 497, sec. 1.

93. 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 propa-
gation of young fish, and also at such other times as they may
not actually be engaged in the hatching and propagation 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 93 to 97, and the said fish commissioners are hereby
directed and required to expend and use one-fourth of the
money appropriated by the State for the use of said fish com-
missioners under the laws of this State in the constructing,
building, erecting, planting, keeping and maintaining 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 93 to 97, in addition to
other moneys hereinafter directed to be used for said pur-