2278 ARTICLE 72.

inspectors of oysters shall have authority at all times to enter all places
and all vessels where oysters are being measured and inspected in the shell
and to inspect all the measures or instruments used in measuring oysters
and to see that the inspection laws are properly enforced, and if the meas-
ures are incorrect, the said general measurer and inspector of oysters
shall take possession of the incorrect measures, and the inspectors of oys-
ters 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 complete statement of the
amount of oysters inspected or measured in the city, town or port for
which they shall be respectively appointed.

An. Code, sec. 74. 1904, sec. 72. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 61. 1906, ch. 188, sec. 72. 1908, ch. 353.

86. 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 penalty of one hundred dollars each for
the faithful performance of their duties. The general measurers and in-
spectors of oysters in Baltimore city, or a majority of them, are empow-
ered 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 in-
spector for a violation 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.

An. Code, sec. 75. 1904, sec. 73. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 62. 1898, ch. 449. 1900, ch. 380.
1906, ch. 188, sec. 73. 1916, ch. 702, sec. 75.

87. The general measurers and inspectors for Baltimore City shall
receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month each, and all other gen-
eral measurers and inspectors provided for by Section 80 shall receive a
salary of fifty dollars per month each, the said salaries to be paid only