HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 771

Research under the supervision and direction of the Commis-
sioner shall have charge of the Marine Laboratory and the
Biological Research carried on in connection therewith, and
shall perform such other duties as the Commissioner may
direct.

12. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commis-
sion, shall appoint a county inspector for each tidewater
county, each of whom shall receive such salary not to exceed
$1, 500 per annum as may be fixed in the budget, and each of
whom shall give bond to the State of Maryland, in the pen-
alty of $1, 000, conditioned upon the faithful performance of
the duties imposed upon them by this Article. Each county
inspector shall be responsible for the enforcement of all laws
and regulations pertaining to fisheries, and for the inspection
of all oysters, crabs and fish taken within the county for
which he is appointed and in such parts of the Atlantic
Ocean and its tributaries and the Chesapeake Bay and
its tributaries as may be designated by the Commissioner.
Each county inspector shall have the right to arrest, seize
and confiscate as provided by law, shall have authority over
any deputy inspector who may be placed under him and shall
be directly responsible to the Commissioner of Fisheries and
subject to his orders. Each county inspector shall be charged
with the duty of enforcing the laws requiring tonging, dredg-
ing, clamming, crabbing, pound net seine and other licenses in
his assigned territory, and the laws relating to the collection
of the oyster tax, and shall pay on such other duties as may
be prescribed by the Commissioner of Fisheries.

12A. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commis-
sion, may appoint not more than fifty deputy inspectors, each
of whom shall receive such salary not to exceed $1, 200 per
annum, as may be fixed in the budget. The Commissioner
shall have the right to employ such deputy inspectors by the
month or by the year. The deputy inspectors shall have and
exercise the powers and duties herein conferred upon the
county inspectors and when so directed by the Commissioner
shall act under the control, supervision and direction of the
county inspectors. Both the county inspectors and deputy
inspectors shall have and exercise the rights, powers and
duties of the former deputy commanders, general inspectors,
special inspectors, inspectors, general measurers, measurers
and members of the State Fishery Force, subject in all cases
to the orders of the Commissioner of Fisheries.

12B. The Commissioner shall appoint as county or deputy
inspectors such male persons as can read and write, and are
sufficiently intelligent to pass an examination in the making