864 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in their respective counties, and, upon the recommendation
of such county commissioners, the governor shall appoint
and commission such officers, who, when qualified, shall
have all the powers and perform all the duties required of
other officers of the State Fishery Force, provided, however,
that all expense of providing boats and paying the salaries
of such officers shall be paid by the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county upon the certificate of the said county
commissioners, out of the moneys received by the said clerk
under section fifteen of this article before the same is paid
over to the school commissioners as therein provided.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

		CHAPTER 644.
		AN ACT to refund to license measurers of oysters in the
		city of Baltimore, the license fees paid by them to the
		clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City in
		the years 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892.
		WHEREAS by an act of the General Assembly of Mary-
		land, acts 1874, chapter 221, entitled "An act to repeal
	Preamble.	chapter one hundred and ninety-three, of the acts passed at
		January session eighteen hundred and seventy -two, and to
		re-enact the same with amendments, so that oysters sold in
		the shell at Baltimore, Crisfield and at all packing estab-
		lishments shall be measured in an iron measure," which act
		of Assembly was not re-enacted by the Code of Laws of
		1888, and which act of 1874, chapter 221 has been claimed
		to be in force and under which license fees have been paid
		by the measurers of oysters in the city of Baltimore, to the
		clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said city, for the
		use and benefit of the State of Maryland for the years 1888,
		1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892 ; therefore,
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
	Refund to	Maryland, That the sum of twenty-eight hundred and forty-
	oyster	one dollars and thirty cents, or so much thereof as may be
	measurers.	necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated to refund
		to the measurers ofoysters, so licensed in the city of Balti-
		more, such sum or sums of money, which they or any of
		them have paid to the State of Maryland under the provi-