JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

Section fifty-seven to sixty two, both inclusive, or who shall
interfere with the general measurers and inspectors of oysters,
or the measurers and special inspectors, in the discharge of
their duties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction before any justice of the peace or court of
competent jurisdiction shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and
costs, one-half of said fine to the informer, unless he be an
officer under this Article, and the other half to the Comptroller,
to the credit of the oyster fund. In default of payment of
fines and costs, the party convicted shall be confined in jail
for not more than twenty days. The appointment of the gen-

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eral measurers and inspectors and measurers and special
inspector, as provided in Sections fifty-seven and fifty-eight,
shall be made on or before September first in each and every
year, and each and every inspector shall report monthly to
the commander of the State Fishery Force, or oftener if
required by him, concerning all the oysters that may be dis-
posed of within his inspection district, and such reports shall
be a full and complete account of all sales of oysters that have
been made within such district.

When
appointments
made.

63. 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 instruments shall be used
for measuring- oysters in the shell but an iron circular tub with
straight sides and straight solid bottom, 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 chime to the
top; a bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half inches
across at the bottom from inside to inside, twenty-one inches
diagonally from the inside chime to the top, and eighteen
inches across from inside to inside from the top; a bushel and
one-half tub shall measure nineteen inches across the top from
inside to inside, eighteen inches across the bottom from inside
to inside, and twenty-four inches diagonally from the inside
chime 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 bottom, and twenty -nine
twenty-six-hundredths inches diagonally from the inside
chime to the top, and all oysters measured in the shell as
required by law shall be even measure to the top of the tub
only, and any person or persons engaged in the business of
buying or selling oysters in this State who shall own or have

How oysters
shall be
measured.
Dimensions
of tubs.