OYSTERS. 2277

The State Conservation Commission of Maryland shall not expend more
than eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) of the funds derived from the
fees provided for in Sections 81 and 82 of this Article in planting oyster
shells and in transplanting small oysters.

1922, ch. 279, see. 2.

83. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed. In case any section or provision of sections 81 and 82 shall be
held unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not be held to affect any
other provision of said sections.

An. Code, sec. 72. 1904, sec. 70. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 59. 1900, ch. 380. 1906, ch. 188, sec. 70.

1916, ch. 702, sec. 72.

84. At the beginning of each oyster season the Conservation Commis-
sion shall divide the inspection points in Baltimore City into four inspec-
tion districts and organize the board of inspectors provided for the City
of Baltimore in section 80 of this article, and all general measurers and
inspectors provided in said section 80 shall be assigned to and remain
during the whole season at the specific points to which they are assigned,
subject, however, to the discretion of the Commission; and the Commis-
sion shall have general control and supervision over all general measurers
and inspectors and special inspectors; and the said general measurers
and inspectors and special inspectors are hereby required to report to the
Commission whenever required, and if they shall refuse or neglect to
make such report they shall be fined for each said failure or refusal the
sum of ten dollars, to be deducted from their salaries, and the said Com-
mission shall have the power to transfer any general measurer and in-
spector or any special inspector from any house or district whenever it
may deem it best for the good of the service to enforce the proper inspec-
tion, the cull law and the collection of the tax for the oyster fund. In
addition to the certificates required by Sections 81 and 82 hereof, every
packer or commission merchant buying oysters in the State of Maryland
shall furnish to the special inspector of his district a weekly report under
oath showing the number of bushels, bags or barrels of oysters purchased
by him during the preceding week. Every packer or canner of oysters,
and every person selling oysters on commission, when taking out a license
at the beginning of the oyster season as required by Sections 91 and 94
of Article 72, shall make oath that he will furnish such weekly reports
showing correct number of oysters purchased by him during the preceding
week. The said oaths may be made before any general measurer and in-
spector or special measurer, each of whom is hereby authorized and di-
rected to administer such oaths without charge, or before any notary public
or justice of the peace.

An. Code, sec. 73. 1904, sec. 71. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 60. 1900, ch. 380. 1906, ch. 188, sec. 71.

85. It shall be the duty of said general measurers and inspectors of
oysters to see that the law in reference to the inspection of oysters be
strictly complied with by all subordinates, and the general measurers and