EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1547

ments and all other papers and property of said boards and
officers, or any of them, shall be transferred to and kept in the
office of the Conservation Commission of Maryland. The fol-
lowing offices are hereby abolished, viz: The Commissioners of
Fisheries, the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners and the State
Conservation Bureau. The Commander of the State Fishery
Force and the State Game Warden are placed upon the staff of
the Commission as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 6. The Commission shall adopt such measures as it may
deem expedient to promote and encourage the leasing of the
barren bottoms of the State for purposes of oyster culture under
the present or future laws of the State, and the Commission
shall take such steps as it can to stimulate an interest in private
planting thereon.

SEC. 7. The Commission shall have charge of the operation
and cultivation and replenishing of reserved areas upon the de-
pleted natural bars of the State, and it shall have and exercise
all of the discretion heretofore vested in the Commander of the
State Fishery Force as to setting aside or reopening any of the
depleted areas reserved for oyster conservation.

SEC. 8. The Commission shall have control over the inspec-
tion of oysters, fish or crabs wherever caught or sold in the
State of Maryland and of the enforcement of the cull laws and
other protective measures. They shall see that all laws relating
to licensee and inspections are enforced; and the general meas-
urers and inspectors of oysters and the special inspectors shall
be appointed by the Commission and shall report to it whenever
required.

SEC. 9. The funds now known as the "Oyster Fund", the
"Oyster Conservation Fund'', and the '' Fund for the Conserva-
tion of Natural Oyster Bars", are hereby consolidated into a
fund to be known as the "Conservation Fund", and the moneys
now paid or which would be hereafter payable into the State
Treasury to the credit of any of said funds, including all
revenue from oyster culture, shall be placed in the "Conserva-
tion Fund" and shall be under the exclusive control of the
Commission, and shall be drawn upon for the payment of office
rent and supplies, for salaries and expenses of members of the
Commission, its staff and employees, for equipment and main-
tenance of the State Fishery Force, and for any other expenses
incurred by the Commission in the propagation, cultivation and