OYSTERS 2687

cull law shall apply to oysters in the shell found anywhere within the State,
whether afloat or ashore, and whether said oysters have been caught within
the waters of this State or shipped or brought into Maryland from other
States.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1922, ch. 336.

13. All local and general laws of this State fixing or regulating mini-
mum or maximum sizes of oysters, fish or crabs, respectively, shall apply
whether the same be caught inside the State of Maryland or outside of this
State and that the fines and penalties prescribed for violation of said laws
respectively shall apply to the same extent.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1912, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 11. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 10.

14. It shall be the duty of the captain or other person in charge of any
vessel from which oysters are being taken, as provided in section 11 of this
article, to keep said vessel at the wharf or other place of delivery until the
inspector of oysters shall have inspected the oysters dumped on deck, as
provided for in said section 11, and give a certificate in form following:

Baltimore, ——————, 19——.

This is to certify that I have this day inspected the oysters contained in
the vessel ————, captain ————, delivered to ————, and found said
cargo to contain ————— per cent, of marketable oysters.

(Signed) ——————————,

Inspector of Oysters.

And any violation of this section by any captain or other person in
charge of any vessel shall be a misdemeanor, and he shall be fined the sum
of one hundred dollars for every such offense.

See notes to secs. 8 and 9.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 12. 1894, ch. 380, sec. 11. 1900, ch. 380.

1927, ch. 467, sec. 15.

15. Any packer, commission man, boatman or other person who shall
conspire or agree with any other person to evade any of the provisions of
this .Article, or who shall continue at or participate in such violation shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any captain or other
person in charge of a vessel to discharge his oysters, or for any packing
house or any other person to receive oysters between the hours of one hour
after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Any violation of this Section
shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than five hundred dollars for each offense on convic-
tion before a court of competent jurisdiction; one-half of said fine to go to
the informer and the other one-half to the comptroller to be placed to the
credit of the oyster fund, unless the informer be an officer of the state
fishery force. And the general inspectors and measurers or special in-
spectors shall be on duty continuously during the working or delivery
hours, viz: from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset.¹

As to abolition of informer's fees, see art. 38, sec. 3.

See notes to secs. 8 and 9.

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 467 of acts of 1927 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.