1590 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

the treasurer, on a warrant of the comptroller. Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of sections 69, 70 and 72 to 75 inclusive of
this article, or who shall interfere with the general measurers or inspec-
tors of oysters or the 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 comp-
troller, to the credit of the oyster fund. In default of payment of fine
and costs, the party convicted shall be confined in jail for not more than
twenty days. The appointment of the general measurers and inspectors
and the special inspectors, as provided in sections 69 and 70, shall be
made on or before September 1st of each 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 which
may be disposed 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 districts.

1904, art. 72, sec. 74. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 63. 1896, ch. 418. 1900, ch. 380.
76. 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 in his possession any instru-
ment or measurement for oysters in the shell which differs in size or
description from the measure hereinbefore mentioned, or shall
demand a greater measure than hereinbefore mentioned, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and punished upon conviction before a court of com-
petent jurisdiction, to be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or committed to the house of correction
for a period of not less than three months nor more than six months,