FRANK BROWN, ESQURE, GOVERNOR.

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.

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37. The deputy commanders of the steamers are hereby
required to keep their vessels constantly on duty, when circum-
stances will permit; and every locality where a violation of the
law is likely to occur shall be visited, not only in the season,
but during the close season, both day and night, as often as the
duties of the force and condition of the vessels will allow; or
whenever there is any information that a violation of this
article is likely to occur, then it shall be the duty of the
deputy commanders at once to proceed to the place suspected
and vigilantly to guard the said places, to see that no one will
violate the provisions of this article; and every three months
a report shall be made to the Board of Public Works of all
official action taken under this article.

Vessels to be
constantly
on duty.

38. It shall be the duty of the deputy commanders of the
said vessels to confine themselves ordinarily to their several
districts, night and day, in and out of the season, but it shall
be their duty also to enforce any of the provisions of this
article, in any water adjacent to their district, when a viola-
tion of the same shall come to their knowledge.

Duty of
deputy
com-
manders.

39. The commanding officer and the deputy commanders of
Said force shall, upon entering upon the discharge of their
duties, take before one of the judges of the Circuit Courts the
oath prescribed by the Constitution; and the commanding

Oath.

officer of said force shall enter into bond to the State of
Maryland in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and each deputy
commander in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be
approved by one of the said judges, for the faithful perform-
ance of their duties as prescribed in this article, the said bond
or bonds to be filed with the Comptroller.

Bond.

40 The salary of the commander of the State Fishery
Force shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum; and he shall
be in active command of one of the steamers, as hereinbefore
provided and the deputy commander of the other steamer
shall receive a salary of ten hundred dollars per annum, and
for each of the steamers they shall have power to appoint one
officer at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, one

Salaries.