1064 OYSTERS—GENERAL MEASURERS. [ART. 72.

1888, ch. 281, sec. 6.

62. The general measurers of oysters shall receive a compen-
sation for the faithful performance of their duties of ten cents
per hundred bushels, to be paid by the seller and collected for
the general measurers of oysters; when oysters are sold by the
cargo or wholesale, by the buyer; and when oysters are sold in
quantity or retail, by the commission merchant selling such
oysters; and any seller who shall refuse to pay such compensa-
tion, and any buyer or commission merchant who shall refuse to
collect and pay over any such compensation to the said general
measurers of oysters, as well as all other persons who shall violate
any of the provisions of sections 58-64 of this article, or interfere
with any of the general measurers of oysters in the discharge of
their duties, upon conviction by any justice of the peace of this
State, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars and costs; one-half of said
fine to be paid to the informer; and in default of payment of said
fine, such person shall be confined in jail for a period not to exceed
twenty days.

Ibid. sec. 7.

63. All oysters measured 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 all instruments of measurements for
measuring oysters in the shell shall be an iron circular tub with
straight sides and straight solid bottom with holes in bottom, if
desired, for draining; such holes to be no larger, however, than
one inch in diameter. A half bushel tub shall have the following
dimensions, all measurements to be from inside to inside, fifteen
inches across the top, thirteen inches across the bottom, and
seventeen inches diagonal from the inside chimb to the top; a
bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half inches across at the
bottom from inside to inside, twenty-one inches diagonal from
the inside chimb to the top, eighteen inches across from inside to
inside at the top; a bushel and one-half tub shall measure nine-
teen inches across the top from inside to inside, eighteen inches
across the bottom from inside to inside, and twenty-four inches
from the inside chimb to the top; a three bushel tub shall
measure twenty-four inches across the top from inside to inside
at the top, twenty-two inches from inside to inside at the bottom,