ART. 71.] OYSTERS.

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number corresponding with the number on such license,
such number to be printed in black figure or figures,
not less than one foot in length and of proportionate
width, and which number shall always be exposed to
view when dredging, and any person or persons caught
taking or catching oysters with scoop, scrape, drag or
dredge in any of the waters of this state, without hav-
ing complied with this provision, shall, upon convic-
tion thereof by any justice of the peace of this state,

be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hun-
dred dollars, one-half of such fine to be paid to the
informer and the balance to the state, unless such
informer be a paid officer of the state as provided for
in this article.

Penalty.

32. All oysters in the shell disposed of in the state
of Maryland, shall be measured in a sealed measure of
any capacity, from half a bushel to twenty-five bush-
els, that may be agreed upon between the seller and pur-

Ibid s. 35
Measure of
oysters.

chaser; provided, that said measure or measures shall
contain in quantity for each bushel thereof, according
to the following dimensions, that is to say, sixteen and
a half inches across from inside to inside at the bottom,
eighteen inches across from inside to inside at the top,
and twenty-one inches diagonal from the inside chime
to the top, and the same shall be even or struck measure.

Proviso.

33. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or seller to
have said measure or measures, duly inspected and
sealed by the proper officers, under a forfeit of fifty
dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace, by action of debt in the
name of the state of Maryland, one-half to go to the
informer, and the other half to the use of the state.

Ibid s. 34.
Measures,
inspected or
sealed
Penalty.

34. All oysters sold in the city of Baltimore shall
be measured by a sworn measurer, who shall receive
for his services one cent per bushel, to be paid equally
by the purchaser and seller.

Ibid s 35.
Sworn mea-
surers

35. The sworn measurers as aforesaid shall takeout
a license to authorize them to measure said oysters,
from the clerk of the court of common pleas in the
city of Baltimore.

Ibid, s 36.
License to
measurers.