JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

force, to be charged equally to the buyer and seller, but
to be paid weekly to the Comptroller of the State Treas-
ury by the buyer; the certificates given the general meas-
urer and inspectors shall be by them mailed weekly to
the Comptroller, and in case the amounts of money shown
to be due be not paid in one week thereafter to the Comp-
troller, which is hereby required to be done, the property of
the parties so indebted may be levied on and sold, as in cases
of taxes in default, without other process of law; the tax of
one cent per bushel hereby levied is also made a charge on
oysters sold by commission merchants and others selling by
less than the cargo, and the measurer and special inspector

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are charged with the duty of seeing that proper returns are
made for the purposes of this Act by such commission mer-
chants or retailers, and in the performance of the duty the said
measurer or special inspector are authorized and directed to
visit the places where Oysters, less than cargoes, are sold
and get from such sellers a statement, under oath, as to the
number of bushels sold from time to time, and to return to
the general measurers and inspectors a certificate thereof, to
be forwarded to the Comptroller, as is required in the case of
the certificates for cargoes, and the payment of the amounts
so found to be due shall be similarly enforced. All such
measurers and special inspectors may be removed at any time
by the commander for neglect or malfeasance misfesance in
office, and said commander shall report to the Governor any
neglect of a general measurer or inspector. The commander
of the State Fishery Force shall furnish to each of said meas-

Proper returns

urers or special inspectors' certificates in book form, supplied
with carbon paper, so that each of said triplicate certificates
shall be exactly the same. The form of certificate shall be as
follows:

19.......

I hereby certify that I have this day measured for Cap-
tain ............. Schooner ............. a cargo of ovsters, sold
to ............. and found the same to contain ......... bushels of
merchantable oysters and ......... bushels of unmerchantable
oysters.

(Signed).......................................,
Measurer or Special Inspector.

Certificates
of measure-
ment.

59. At the beginning of each oyster season the commander
of the State Fishery Force shall divide the inspection points
in Baltimore City into five inspection districts, and organize
the board of inspectors provided for the City of Baltimore in

Baltimore
City.
Inspection
points divided
into
districts.