FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

name of their office, and the name or number of their respec-
tive districts, and shall perform such ether duties as are now
or may hereinafter be required by law.

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SEC. 72. The commissioner drawing and superintending the
said contracts shall, upon the execution of the same, be en-
titled to receive and collect from the master or owner of the
vessel a fee of fifty cents for each person engaged under the
contract, as above provided, one-half of which fee shall be
deducted by said master or owner from the wages of each man ;
and upon the discharge of the crew or any member thereof, as
before provided, the commissioner before whom the discharge
is made shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each
man so discharged, to be paid and deducted as above provided.

Fees to com-
missioners.

SEC. 73. It shall be the duty of the master or owner of any
such vessel, described in section 67, as amended, upon the
engagement and employment of any person for service upon
such vessel, and before such person shall be allowed to enter
upon such service of employment, to make and execute with
such person before a shipping commissioner, a contract as pro-
vided and required in section seventy-one; and it shall be the
duty of any said crew entering into said contract and signing
agreement binding himself or themselves on board of any such
boat or vessel, to fulfill his or their contract unless on cause
shown to the commissioner; and any member of any said crew

Contract of
master with
crew.

refusing to comply with said contract or violating any pro-
visions of the preceding sections of this act shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon the trial and conviction before
a justice of the peace or a judge of the court having
criminal jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than five dollars

Violation of
contract.

nor more than fifty dollars or imprisonment for sixty days,
and be committed to jail until tines and costs are paid in the
jail of the county where convicted, and if convicted in Balti-
more city, in the city jail; on complaint by the master of said
boat or vessel to any officer of the State Fishery Force, it shall
be the duty of such officer to take in charge all men that have
violated the contract heretofore mentioned, and deliver the
offender to the proper authority, to be dealt with according to
the provisions of this section; and it shall further be the duty
of such master or owners to keep on board of such vessels the
shipping contract or agreement of every member of his crew,
which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the per-
sons interested and the officers of the State Fishery Force;
and the said master shall allow the officers of the State Fishery

Penalty.