1734 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 30

Collins, Lednum, Close,

Disharoon, Scrimger, Anderson, of Car.,

Corkran, Gately, Hoffacker,

Pattison, Bramble, Waller,

Linthicum, Latrobe, Finkel—51.

NEGATIVE—None.
Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

Senate bill entitled "An Act to repeal sections 10 A
and 42, to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections
1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 22, 34, 36, 40, 45, 57, 58, 59, 60,
62, 63, 66 and 67 of Article 72, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title 'Oysters. ' and to add a new section
thereto, to be known as "46 A" and to follow section 46. "

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out all after "63, " in section 63, down to and in-
cluding the word; 'informer, " in line 25, and insert the
following:

"All oysters sold in this State shall be measured either
in a one-half bushel tub, a bushel tub, a bushel and one-
half tub or a three bushel tub, and no instrument shall
be used for measuring oysters in the shell but an iron
circular tub with straight sides and straight solid bot-
tom with holes in bottom for draining, such holes to be
no larger, however, than one inch in diameter; a half
bushel tub shall have the following dimensions, all
measurements to be from inside to inside fifteen inches
across the top, thirteen inches across the bottom and
seventeen inches diagonally, from the inside chimb to
the top; a bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half
inches across at the bottom from inside to inside, twen-
ty-one inches diagonally from the inside chimb to the
top. and eighteen inches across from inside to inside at
the top; a bushel and one-half tub shall measure nine-
teen inches across the top from inside to inside, eigh-
teen inches across the bottom from inside to inside and
twenty-four inches diagonally from the inside chimb to
the top; a three bushel tub shall measure twenty-
four inches across the top from inside to inside,
twenty-two inches from inside to inside at the bot-
tom, and twenty-nine and twenty-six one-hundredths
inches diagonally from the inside chimb to the top,