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Section 120. It shall be the duty of the Board of Shell Fish 

 Commissioners to take such measures as in their judgment shall 

 seem best calculated to increase the productivity of the natural 

 oyster beds or bars of the State, and the expense of so doing shall 

 be paid out of the Natural Oyster Bed Reshelling Fund, upon re- 

 quisition made by the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, en- 

 dorsed by the Comptroller of the State. 



Section 121. For the purpose of performing the duties im- 

 posed upon the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners, by Section 120, 

 they shall employ a superintendent of natural oyster beds, at a sal- 

 ary of $100.00 per month, beginning April 1st and ending Septem- 

 ber 30th, payable monthly, and it shall be the duty of such super- 

 intendent, under the direction of the Board of Shell Fish Commis- 

 sioners, to give personal supervision to the work of reshelling the 

 natural oyster beds, done by the order of the Board of Shell Fish 

 Commissioners. 



Section 122. That the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 

 shall purchase from the lowest responsible bidder, shells at such 

 places and in such quantities as they may need for the purpose of 

 reshelling the natural beds, and in inviting proposals for such shells 

 they may prescribe that the shells shall be delivered to the superin- 

 tendent of natural beds, or to his order, at some convenient place 

 for the shipment of the said shells, or they may require that the 

 said shells be delivered by the sellers thereof on such particular 

 natural bed or beds as the Commission may then be engaged in re- 

 shelling, and may require the seller of such shells to distribute them 

 under the direction and control of the superintendent of natural 

 beds. If they shall buy such shells to be delivered otherwise than 

 on the natural beds the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners shall 

 have the power to cause the said shells to be taken from the place 

 at which they are delivered to the said superintendent of natural 

 beds to the said natural beds, and to cause the said shells to be 

 there, under the superintendent, or the superintendent of natural 

 oyster beds, properly distributed on the bed or beds, which the 

 Board of Shell Fish Commissioners may be engaged in reshelling. 



Section 123. For the purpose of discharging the duties im- 

 posed upon them by this Act, the Board of Shell Fish Commis- 

 sioners shall have the same control and direction and be to the same 



