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or other fault, at a salary of one thousand dollars

per annum; and said captain shall employ one engi-

neer at a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum ;

Salaries.

one mate at tive hundred and fifty dollars per an-

num; one fireman at thirty dollars per month; two

seamen at twenty-five dollars per month; one cook

at twenty dollars per month; and said officers shall

relieve in turns as now provided by law for the

officers of said steamer Leila, but the salaries of the

commander, first and second officers and engineer

of the steamer Leila shall remain as at present to

the end of the term for which they were respectively

appointed, and rations for officers and men hereafter

to be appointed for the said tugs shall be allowed

as at present provided by law to the steamer Leila.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no tug or pro-

peller shall be purchased or paid for with a less

Speed per hour

speed than twelve knots per hour; and if the Board of

Public Works,after due deliberation, decide that they

can obtain more suitable tugs or propellers by build-

ing than by purchase, they shall employ some suit-

able person to prepare specifications for the same,

and upon their approval of said specifications adver-

tisements for proposals from shipbuilders shall be

inserted for one week in two daily papers published

Advertise for
proposals.

in Baltimore, Maryland, for the building of said

tugs or propellers, and copies of the specifications

shall be made and sent to any and all shipbuilders

who shall inform the Board of Public Works, by

letter or otherwise, of their desire to bid for the

same; and upon some certain day thereafter the

said Board of Public Works shall meet and decide

upon the bids, giving the contract or contracts to

the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, who shall

give bond to the State of Maryland in the sum of

twenty-five thousand dollars for the faithful per-

formance of the contract or contracts, which bond

shall be approved by the Board of Public Works

before the contract is signed; the contractor or con-

Prepare a

tractors shall then prepare a model that shall meet

model.

the approval of said board, and proceed to complete

said tugs or propellers by the fifteenth of September

next, in accordance with said specifications and

model.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commander

of the said State Fishery Force shall inspect the