8 ft'i /tort of the Hoard of Shell Fish Commissioners 



LEGISLATION. 



An Act, efititled "An act to establish and promote the indus- 

 try of Oyster Culture in Maryland," to define and mark natural 

 oyster beds, bars and rocks lying under the waters of this 

 State, to prescribe penalties for the infringement of the pro- 

 visions of the Act, and to add new Sections to Article 72 of the 

 Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, to follow Section 82 

 and to be designated consecutively from Section 82 to Section 

 119, inclusive, was passed by the General Assembly of Mary- 

 land, of 1906, and received the official approval of His Excel- 

 lency, Edwin Warn" eld, Governor of the State of Maryland, on 

 the 2nd day of April, 1906, as will more fully appear by refer- 

 ence to said Act, fully published and submitted herewith,* and 

 more specifically designated as Chapter 711 of the Acts of said 

 General Assembly. 



APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD. 



Under the appointment provisions- of Section 84 of the Act to 

 which reference is herewith made, the appointment of the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners is lodged with the Board of 

 Public Works of Maryland, with the restriction that "the said 

 Board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a 

 resident of one of the tidewater counties of the Eastern Shore 

 of Maryland, another a resident of one of the tidewater counties 

 of the Western Shdre and the third a resident of the City of 

 Baltimore, and one of whom shall be a member of the minority 

 party at the time of their appointment," the term of each of the 

 members of said Board being two years from the first Monday 

 in May after his appointment, and one of said members being 

 designated by the Board of Public Works as President of the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 



Acting under the authority thereby vested with it, and in 

 accordance therewith, the Board of Public Works of Maryland, 

 consisting of His Excellency, Edwin, Warfield, Governor of 

 Maryland ; Hon. Murray Vandiver, Treasurer of Maryland, and 



*See page 214. 



