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tiring oysters and to see that the inspection laws are properly enforced,
and if the measures are incorrect, the said general measurer and inspec-
tor of oysters shall take possession of the incorrect measures, and the
inspectors of oysters are authorized, directed and required to arrest any
person or persons violating any of the provisions of this article. It shall
be the further duty of the general measurers and inspectors of oysters
to return under oath to the comptroller of the State annually a com-
plete statement of the amount of oysters inspected or measured in the
city, town or port for which they shall be respectively appointed.

1904, art. 72, sec. 72. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 61. 1906, ch. 188, sec. 72. 1908, ch. 353.

74. No person, after April 8, 1908, shall act as a measurer of
oysters in Baltimore city, except the general measurer and inspector of
oysters, and such person who shall be duly licensed measurers for said
city: any person, after April 8, 1908, who shall desire to engage in the
business of oyster measurer in Baltimore city shall, on or before the
first day of September in each year, before he undertakes to act as such,
first apply to the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city for a
license so to do, which license shall be issued upon application, and the
payment to said clerk of a license fee of five dollars and fifty cents,
which license shall expire on the first day of May of the following year.
Five dollars of said fee shall be by said clerk accounted for and paid
over to the State, to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, and the
remaining fifty cents shall be applied by said clerk to his own use and
fee for issuing said license; said oyster measurers shall also take the
usual oath of office, and give bond to the State of Maryland in the pen-
alty of one hundred dollars each for the faithful performance of their
duties. The general measurers and inspectors of oysters in Baltimore
city, or a majority of them, are empowered and authorized to suspend
the right or privilege of any person licensed to measure or inspect
oysters in said city, to measure or inspect oysters under said license;
provided, however, that no such right to suspend shall exist, unless a
charge is pending against such licensed measurer or inspector for a vio-
lation of the provisions of this article, in reference to the measurement
and inspection of oysters, and if such charge shall be dismissed by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such suspension shall end; and upon
notice from the buyer or seller of oysters, the general measurer and
inspector of oysters shall designate the special inspectors and the licensed
measurers and inspectors to inspect the oysters out of said vessel.

Ibid. sec. 73. 1894. ch. 380, Sec. 62. 189S. ch. 449. 1900, ch. 380.
1906, ch. 188, sec. 73.

75. The general measurers and inspectors for Baltimore city shall
receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month each, and all general
measurers and inspectors provided for by section 69 shall receive the
salary of fifty dollars per month each, the said salaries to be paid only
for those months in which said measurers and inspectors are actually
engaged in the performance of their duties of their respective offices, by