OYSTERS. 2279

during the oyster season and for those months in which said general meas-
urers and inspectors are actually engaged in the performance of the
duties of their respective offices. Any person who. shall violate any of the
provisions of section 80, 81, 84 to 87, inclusive, of this Article, or who
shall interfere with the general measurers or inspectors 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 Comptroller, 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. Each and every
inspector shall report monthly to the Conservation Commission, or oftener,
if required by them, concerning all the oysters which may be disposed of
within his inspection district, and such reports shall be a full and com-
plete account of all sales of oysters that have been made within snch dis-
tricts. The Commission may at any time for good cause shown suspend
or remove any inspector from office.1

An. Code, sec. 76. 1904, sec. 74. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 63. 1896, ch. 418. 1900, ch. 380.

88. 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 dimen-
sions, 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 meas-
ure 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 busi-
ness of buying or selling oysters in this State who shall own or have in
his possession any instrument or measurement for oysters in the shell
which differs in size or description from the measure hereinbefore men-
tioned, or shall demand a greater measure than hereinbefore mentioned,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished upon conviction before a
court of competent jurisdiction, to be fined a sum of not less than fifty

1 Sec. 2 of the act of 1916, ch. 702, provides for the repeal of all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with said act of 1916.