EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the operation of this Act, and no person shall be permitted
to plant or cultivate oysters thereupon, or in any way appro-
priate the same to his own use.

Section 84. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of Mary-

CHAP. 711

land is hereby created. The said board shall consist of three
members, one of whom shall be a resident of one of the tide-
water counties of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, another a
resident of one of the tidewater counties of the Western
Shore, and the third a resident of the city of Baltimore, and
one of whom shall be a member of the minority party at the
time of their appointment. The term of each of the mem-
bers of said board shall be two years from the first Monday
in May after his appointment. They shall be appointed by
the Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland. No
member of said Board of Shell Fish Commissioners shall
be in any manner interested in any land leased or taken up
for bedding, planting or cultivating oysters. The acts and
duties to be done and performed by said board under this
Act may be done and performed by two of said commis-
sioners, and in all cases the decision of a majority of the
commissioners shall be binding. One of said commissioners
shall be designated by the Board of Public Works of the

Board of shell
fish commis-
sioners
created.

State of Maryland as president, and his salary shall be two
thousand dollars a year. The salary of each of the other
commissioners shall be eighteen hundred dollars a year.
The said commissioners shall be allowed to employ a chief
clerk upon a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year, and
such assistants, not exceeding three in number, and not more
than may be absolutely needed for the performance of the
work of the board, at graded salaries, to be paid by the
commissioners, not to exceed one thousand dollars a year
for any such assistants, as it may deem necessary to aid it
in the proper performance of its duties, as prescribed in this

Salaries paid.

Act. The said commissioners shall employ a competent
surveyor, who shall also be a hydographic engineer, upon a
salary to be named by said commissioners, not exceeding
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

Surveyor to be
employed.