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Force; provided, however, that the provisions of this Act shall
only apply to the officers and crews of the State Fishery Force
employed on steamers and vessels owned by the State of Mary-
land. And nothing herein shall apply to the officers and crews
upon any boat or boats leased or hired by the State.

Approved April 13, 1908.

CHAPTER 228.

AN ACT to authorize and require the Board of Public Works
to hire or rent a local guard boat, during the oyster season,
for the tonging bottoms of Somerset county, at the mouth of
the Wicomico river, and to appoint a commander for said
boat.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Public Works shall be and is hereby
authorized and required to rent or hire a suitable boat to assist
in guarding the tonging bottoms of Somerset county located
at or near the mouth of the Wicomico river, or adjacent thereto,
and in enforcing the laws pertaining thereto, at a cost not to
exceed thirty, dollars per month for the hiring of said boat, and
to appoint a suitable person to command said boat at a salary
of fifty dollars per month, from the first day of September to
the 30th day of April following, of each and every successive
oyster season; and the commander of said boat shall be author-
ized to select such number of seamen to serve on said boat as
the Board of Public Works shall authorize, not to exceed two
in number, at salaries of thirty dollars each per month, during
the period of his or their service on said boat; provided, how-
ever, that the owner of such boat so hired shall keep the same in
good order and repair.

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

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 529.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 367 of the Acts of 1906.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land) That Chapter 367 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland passed at the session of 1906, entitled An Act to
repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 46 of Article 72