ART. 72] STATE FISHERY FORCE. 1591

necessary that both steamers are required to enforce the pro-
visions of this article; and the board of public works shall
appoint a deputy commander at a salary of eighty-three, dol-
lars 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
of 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 number
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
for their several assistants; provided further, that the board of
public works is hereby authorized to contract for a guard-boat
to protect St. Mary's and St. George's rivers and Smith's
creek during the whole year at a cost not exceeding seven
hundred and twenty dollars for the boat, captain and two men,
and three hundred dollars for the boat, captain and one man
during the closed season.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 37.

38. The deputy commanders of the steamers are hereby
required to keep their vessels constantly on duty when circum-