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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and on the first of October in each year the said
board shall appoint a deputy commander at a
salary of fifty dollars per month for six months

Deputy com-
mander, etc.

for each of the said sloops so stationed, and
the deputy commander guarding the line
first named shall be authorized to appoint
a mate at forty dollars per month, and two
seamen at thirty dollars per month, to serve
six months as aforesaid; provided, however, that
the mate and one seaman shall not be residents
of the county of which the said deputy com-
mander is a resident, but shall be residents of
the other county of said district; and provided
further, that the amount necessary to pay said
salaries shall be paid to the comptroller equally
by the clerks of the circuit courts of Talbot and
Dorchester counties respectively, from funds
received by them for license to scrape in said
Choptank river, and now by law directed to be
paid to the school fund of said counties ; and
the deputy commander in charge of the sloops
guarding the waters in Poplar island narrows
shall be authorized to appoint a mate at a salary
of forty dollars per month, and two seamen at
thirty dollars per month, to serve as aforesaid;
and the said clerk of the circuit court for Talbot
county shall be directed to pay over to the
comptroller one-half of said salaries from the
license received as aforesaid.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.