WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 275.

AN ACT to authorize and require the Board of

Public Works to sell the steamer Leila, now in

the employ of the State Fishery Force, and to

purchase or build two suitable tugs or propellers

to be used and employed in the place of the said

steamer, and to appoint suitable officers and men

for the command of said vessels.

WHEREAS the steamer Leila, of the State Fishery

Force, is so decayed that she is unseaworthy, and

after a careful examination it is found that said

steamer is not worth rebuilding, and will necessitate

Preamble.

an expenditure of from four to six thousand dollars

annually, to keep up necessary repairs, if continued

in the service, and as said steamer's entire plan,

model and hull are unsuited for the purpose for

which she is now employed —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the State Board of Public

Works be and are hereby directed and requested to

purchase or build two suitable tugs or propellers to

be substituted for, and take the place of the steamer

Purchase or

Leila, and to be employed by the State Fishery

build suitable

Force for all the uses and purposes for which said

tugs.

steamer is now used, and the said steamer "Leila"

be advertised and sold, and the money arising from

said sale shall be applied as a payment on the tugs

or propellers, and the Treasurer of the State is hereby

required and directed, upon the warrant of the

Comptroller, to pay the balance of the purchase

money or builder's cost; provided the total cost of

said tugs or propellers, with their boilers, engines

and equipments complete for employment and use of

the State Fishery Force, shall not exceed twenty-

five thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Board of

Public Works shall, upon the completion or purchase

of said tugs or propellers, proceed to appoint some

Appoint offi-

suitable person to take command as captain of each

cers.

of said tugs or propellers, who shall hold his office

for two years, or until discharged for incompetency