122 OYSTERS. [ART. 72.

ing twenty-five hundred dollars a year. If the commissioners
deem it expedient to employ a hydrographic engineer who is
also a biologist, capable of investigating oyster propagation,
an engineer of such qualification may, in their discretion, be
employed. The sum of five hundred dollars per annum shall
be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of said
engineer, if he be a biologist, who shall, in that event, estab-
lish one or more stations for said investigation of oyster
propagation. All salaries, outlays and disbursements author-
ized by sections 84-119 shall be paid out of the general treasury
of the State of Maryland upon requisitions made by the board
of shell fish commissioners, endorsed by the comptroller of the
State, but the same shall be repaid out of the first revenues
arising from the leasing of land for oyster culture contemplated
by these provisions. The commissioners composing said board
shall, immediately after their appointment, file in the office of
the clerk of the court of appeals separate bonds, with a surety
or sureties to be approved by the State treasurer, in the sum
of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties imposed by this law. The said commission-
ers shall take and subscribe before the governor of the State
an official oath prescribed by the constitution. The said com-
missioners shall have an office in the city of Annapolis.

1906, ch. 711.

85. The commissioners shall keep, at their office in the city
of Annapolis, books of record, in which shall be recorded all
leases, assignments and other conveyances of land to be used
for the planting or cultivation of oysters in accordance with
these provisions. A set of clear and simple forms, for all sub-
sequent conveyances of any kind, shall be prepared by the
board, with the advice of the attorney general, and no title
shall be vested in any lessee or transferee of any interest or
estate acquired under these provisions until the conveyance or
conveyances evidencing such leases or transfers shall have been
recorded in the office of the board of shell fish commissioners.

Ibid.

86. The board of shell fish commissioners shall, as soon as
practicable after the passage of these provisions, cause to be
made a true and accurate survey of the natural oyster beds, bars
and rocks of this State, said survey to be made with reference to