1562 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

comptroller to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, unless the
informer be an officer of the state fishery force. And the general
inspectors and measurers or special inspectors shall be on duty continu-
ously during the working or delivery hours viz: from 6 A. M. to
8 P. M.

See notes to sec. 9.

1904, art. 72, sec. 13. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 12.

14. It shall be the duty of general measurers and inspectors of
oysters and other officers of the police force to supervise the operation
of this article and diligently to aid in the enforcement of its provisions,
and they or any of them are authorized and empowered to enter into
any house or boat or any other place where oysters may be dumped or
stored to inspect the same at any time; and any packer, commission man
or boatman who- shall refuse to open his house or boat where oysters
may be dumped or stored for the inspection thereof by the officer whose
duty it shall be to inspect the same, and any person who shall conspire
or agree with any other person to evade any of the provisions of this
article or who shall connive at or participate in such violation shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties pre-
scribed in section 13 of this article.
See notes to sec. 9.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 13.

15. Any general measurer or inspector of oysters in this State who
shall knowingly permit any evasion or violation of this article to take
place without causing the arrest of the offender shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, upon conviction of the same, shall be dismissed' from the
service and be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hun-
dred dollars, in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace.
See notes to sec. 9.

Time for Taking Oysters.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 14. 1900, ch. 380.

16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or catch
oysters or have oysters in his or their possession between the twenty-fifth
day of April and the first day of September in each and every year;
provided, that oysters caught before the twenty-fifth day of April may
be disposed of at any time before the thirtieth day of April; nor shall
it be construed to prevent any person from taking oysters at any time
from his private bed's within the State for private use or transplanting
or cultivating but not for sale. Persons violating the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
See sections 18, 53, 55 and 62.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 15.

17. Any person who shall violate any provision of sections 8 and 16
of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-