ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR.

Chapter 375.

AN ACT to repeal sections twenty-seven and
thirty-two of chapter two hundred and ninety-
six of the acts passed by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland at the January session,
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled
"Oysters," and to re-enact the same with
amendments, and to add an additional section
thereto, to be numbered section forty-seven.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

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bly of Maryland, That sections twenty-seven and
thirty-two of chapter two hundred and ninety-
six of the acts of the general assembly passed at
the January session, eighteen and eighty-six, be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows, and also to add an addi-
tional section to said chapter, to be numbered
section forty-seven :
SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That the board of

Repealed and
re-enacted.

public works shall have the power, and it shall be
their duty, to keep the steamers and sail vessels
in good order and repair; and for the purpose of
reducing the expenses of the fishery force the
said board are further authorized, in their dis-
cretion, 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 oys-
ter fund; and also to establish such rules and
regulations as they may think proper for reduc-
ing the number of employes and otherwise cur-
tailing the expenses of said force ; and the said
board shall also have power to purchase or build
two suitable sailing vessels to take the place of
the sloops Mary Compton and Nannie Merriman,
and the said board of public works shall have
power to assign the said sloops Mary Compton
and Nannie Merriman, or some other suitable
sailing vessel, to guard the line now established
between the tongers and scrapers in the Great
Choptank river running from the long wharf,
known as the Maryland Steamboat Company's
wharf, at Cambridge to the Bowdle House in
Talbot county, and to guard the waters
of Poplar island narrows in Talbot county ;

Reducing ex-
penses.