WM. PRESTON LANE, JR. ? GOVERNOR. 1169

wealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland is to halt
the depletion of fin fish and crabs in the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries in Virginia and Maryland including the
Potomac River, and oysters in the Potomac River, and to
increase the abundance of said fish, crabs and oysters in
the best interests of the people of the Commonwealth of
Virginia and the State of Maryland, now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That fifteen (15) new Articles be and they are
hereby added to the Compact of 1785 made between the
Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland, said
Articles to follow immediately after Article 13 of said
Compact, and to be numbered Article 14 through Article
28, both inclusive, to read as follows:

14. There is hereby created a Commission to be known
as the Maryland-Virginia Chesapeake-Potomac Authority.
Said Commission shall consist of seven (7) members, two
of whom shall be appointed by the Governor of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia and two of whom shall be appointed
by the Governor of Maryland. Permanent members ex-
officio, shall be the Chairman of the Tidewater Fisheries
Commission of Maryland and the Commissioner of Fish-
eries of Virginia, or the holder, from time to time, of a com-
parable office in each State having respectively the substan-
tial powers and functions of the Chairman of the Tide-
water Fisheries Commission of Maryland and the Com-
missioner of Fisheries of Virginia, as determined respec-
tively by the Governors of Maryland and Virginia; the
seventh member of the Commission shall be appointed by
the Governors of the two States jointly. If the Governors
shall be unable to agree upon the selection of the seventh
member, the President of the United States, upon the re-
quest of the said Governors, shall make the appointment
of the seventh member.

15. (Tenure of Commissioners. ) The terms of the
members of the Commission, other than those holding office
ex officio, shall be as follows: The member appointed joint-
ly by the Governors of the two States (or by the President
of the United States, as the case may be) shall be appointed
for a term of five (5) years. One of the members from the
State first ratifying these Articles adding to said Compact
of 1785 shall be originally appointed by the Governor of
his State for a term of one year, and the other such member
from said State for a term of three years. One of the mem-
bers from the State last ratifying said Articles shall be
originally appointed by the Governor of his State for a