HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1605

delivery of the same, three dollars and fifty cents,
the clerk to receive twenty-five cents for each and
every such license as a fee for issuing the same, including
administering the oath when required. One-third of the
amount received for such license shall be paid by the clerk
to the school commissioners for the use of the public schools
in the respective counties where such licenses are issued,
and of this amount the portion received from white tongers
to go to the white schools, and the portion received from
the colored tongers to go to the colored schools, and the
remaining two-thirds to be paid over by the clerk to the
Comptroller of the State Treasury, to be credited to the
oyster fund; and two-thirds of the amount received from
any tonging license in any county in this State shall be
paid by the clerk of the circuit court of the county when
received to the comptroller of the treasury to be credited
to the oyster fund, any provisions of any public local law
or public general law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 17, 1939.

CHAPTER 747.

(Senate Bill 110)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1
of Article 89 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Statistics and Information as to Branches
of Industry".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1 of Article 89 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Statistics and Information
as to Branches of Industry", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

1. The office of Commissioner of Labor and Statistics is
hereby created. The Commissioner shall be appointed by the
Governor, for a term of four years from the first Monday of
May following the election of the Governor, and until his
successor shall be appointed and shall have qualified, and shall
devote his entire time to the performance of the duties of his
office. Any vacancy shall be filled by the Governor for the un-
expired term. The Governor may at any time remove the