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stances will permit; and every locality where a violation of the
law is likely to occur shall be visited, not only in the season,
but during the closed season, both day and night, as often as
the duties of the force and condition of the vessels will allow;
or whenever there is any information that a violation of this
article is likely to occur, then it shall be the duty of the deputy
commanders at once to proceed to the places suspected and
vigilantly to guard the said places to see that no one will
violate the provisions of this article; and every three months
a report shall be made to the board of public works of all
official action taken under this article.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 38.

39. It shall be the duty of the deputy commanders of the
said vessels to confine themselves ordinarily to their several
districts night and day in and out of season, but it shall be
their duty also to enforce any of the provisions of this article
in any water adjacent to their district, when a violation of the
same shall come to their knowledge.

Ibid. sec. 39.

40. The commanding officer and the deputy commanders
of said force shall, upon entering upon the discharge of their
duties, take before one of the judges of the circuit courts the
oath prescribed by the constitution; and the commanding
officer of said force shall enter into bond to the State of Mary-
land in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and each deputy
commander in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be approved
by one of the said judges, for the faithful performance of their
duties as prescribed in this article, the said bond or bonds to
be filed with the comptroller.

Jackson v. Bennett, 80 Md. 77.

1894, ch 380. 1896, ch 418. 1900, ch. 380, sec. 40.

41. The salary of the commander of the State fishery force
shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and he shall have
power to appoint one officer at a salary of six hundred dollars
per annum, one engineer at a salary of eight hundred dollars
per annum, and one assistant engineer at a salary of six hundred
dollars per annum, one pilot at a salary of thirty-five dollars
per month during the oyster season, and thirty dollars per
month during the closed season; two seamen, two firemen and
' one cook at a salary of thirty dollars per month each, and
each deputy commander of the said vessels shall have the