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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Public Works is authorized in their discretion to sell one of
the steamers, and to turn the funds arising from such sale over
to the Comptroller, to be placed to the credit of the oyster
fund. The Board of Public Works is further authorized and
required to reduce the number of employes on the sail boats
from the 15th day of April until the 15th day of September
of each year, to three, viz: captain, mate and cook, excepting
the schooners "Nelly Jackson," "Folly" and "Baughman,
which shall consist of the three above-named crew and a sea-
man, making four men to each of the above-named boats; and
the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized to contract
for sloops or vessels to guard the line from the first of October
to the first of April, between the tongers and dredgers from
the Long wharf, at Cambridge, to Bowdle's house, in Talbot
county, and to rent or hire suitable boats to guard the waters of
Herring bay, Manokin river, St. Mary's river, Holland and
Hooper's straits, and Pocomoke river and sound; the price to
be paid for the use of such boats not to exceed thirty dollars
per month during the period of employment, and the crews of
the boats so employed, not exceeding three for each boat, shall
be paid for their services, not exceeding fifty dollars per month
for the captain or master, and thirty dollars each per month for
their several assistants.

40. The salary of the commander of the State fishery force

Salaries of
commander,
etc.

shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and the deputy
commander of the steamer shall receive a salary of ten 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, one
assistant engineer at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum,
one pilot at a salary of thirty dollars per month, three seamen
at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month each, and two fire-
men at twenty-five dollars per month each, and one cook and
one steward¹ at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month each ;
and each deputy commander of the sail vessels shall receive a
salary of seven hundred dollars per annum, and each deputy
commander of the said vessels shall have the power to appoint
one officer at a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, and four
seamen at a salary of thirty five dollars each per month during
the oyster season, and thirty dollars per month after the season,
except the deputy commander of the second guard-boat of the
Second district, who shall receive fifty dollars per month for
the year, and he shall appoint a mate at a salary of forty dol-
lars per month, and two seamen at a salary of thirty dollars