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CHAPTER 149.
AN ACT to provide for the payment of a certain
sum of money to Charles H. Gibson, State's
Attorney for Talbot county, for professional
services rendered the State.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury,	Appropriation to Charles H.
be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue	Gibson.
his warrant upon the Treasurer, for the payment to
Charles H. Gibson, State's Attorney for Talbot
county, of the sum of six hundred dollars in full
compensation for professional services rendered the
State, in the prosecution before justices of the peace
in and for said county, of two hundred and thirteen
cases of violation of the Oyster Law; and the said
sum of money is hereby appropriated for that
purpose, out of the amount in the Treasury standing
to the credit of the oyster fund.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.	In force
Approved, March 30th, 1874.

CHAPTER 150.
AN ACT to establish a Commission of Fisheries of
the State of Maryland, define its duties and to ap-
propriate a sum of money to defray the expenses
thereof.
WHEREAS, Both the marine and inland fisheries
of this State have of late years much deteriorated, and	Preamble.
a vast source of food supply for the people has been
greatly diminished by causes within the reach of
legislation, and —
WHEREAS, The experience of many of the States
has shown that their fisheries can be fully restored	Preamble.