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operation of this Act, and no person shall be permitted to plant or 

 cultivate oysters thereupon or in any way appropriate the same to 

 his own use. 



Section 84. The Board of Shell Fish Commissioners of 

 Maryland is hereby created. 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 Shore, 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 shall be two years 

 from the first Monday in May after his appointment. They shall 

 be appointed by the Board of Public Works of the State of Mary- 

 land. No member of said Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 

 shall be in any manner interested in any land leased or taken up 

 for bedding, planting or cultivating oysters. The acts and duties 

 to be done and performed by said Board under this Act may be 

 done and performed by two of said Commissioners, and in all 

 cases, the decision of a majority of the Commissioners shall be 

 binding. One of said Commissioners shall be designated by the 

 Board of Public Works of the State of Maryland as president, and 

 his salary shall be Two Thousand Dollars a year. The salary of 

 the other Commissioners shall be Eighteen Hundred Dollars a year. 

 The said Commissioners shall be allowed to employ a chief clerk 

 upon a salary of Twelve Hundred Dollars a year, and such assist- 

 ants, not exceeding three in number, and not more than be abso- 

 lutely needed for the performance of the work of the Board, at 

 graded salaries, to be paid by the Commissioners, not to exceed 

 One Thousand Dollars a year for any such assistants, as it may 

 deem necessary to aid it in the proper performance of its duties, as 

 prescribed in this Act. The said Commissioners shall employ a 

 competent surveyor, who shall also be a hydrographic engineer, 

 upon a salary to be named by said Commissioners not exceeding 

 Twenty-five Hundred Dollars a year. If the Commissioners deem 

 it expedient to employ a hydrographic engineer, who is also a 

 biologist, capable of investigating oyster propagation, an engineer 

 of such qualification may, in their discretion, be employed. The 

 sum of Five Hundred Dollars per annum shall be appropriated, 

 to be expended under the direction of said engineer, if he be a 



