in section one of tins Act, and it shall be unlawful
to use any other; to have said measure or measures
duly Inspected and stamped by the proper officer in
tire City of Baltimore; and any person using any
other shall forfeit fifty dollars for each and every
offence, and to stand committed to the Baltimore
City Jail, if the offence be committed in Baltimore
city, or Somerset County Jail, if the offence be com-
mitted in Crisfield, as the case may be, until the
same shall have been paid, to be recovered before
any justice of the peace, by an action of debt, in the
name of the State of Maryland, one-half to go to the
Informer, the other to the use of the State; the jus-
tice of the peace before whom such case or cases
may be tried being hereby directed to pay into the
State Treasury all such fines.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it is the intent and
meaning of this Act that it shall be unlawful For any
person or persons to dispose of or purchase any
Oysters in the shell, either in the City of Baltimore or
the port of Crisfield in Sumerset county, except in
such measures as are described in section one of this
Act, and the violation of any of the provisions of that
section shall, upon proof, be punished by a forfeiture
of fifty dollars for each and every offence, and the per-
son or persons so offending shall stand committed to
the Baltimore City Jail, if the offence be committed in
Baltimore city, or the jail of Somerset county, if the
offence shall have been committed in Crisfield in Som-
erset county, as the case may be, until the same shall
have been paid, to be recovered before any justice of
the peace by action of debt in the name of the State of
Maryland, one-half to go the informer, and the other
half to the use of the State, to be paid into the State
Treasury by the justice of the peace before whom
the case may have been tried.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after the first day of June, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two.
Approved April 1, 1872.
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