ART. 72.] OYSTERS—PROPAGATION. 1065

and twenty-nine and twenty-six one hundredths inches from the
inside chimb to the top; and all oysters measured in the shell, as
required by law, shall be even or struck measure; and any person
or persons engaged in the business of buying or selling oysters in
this State, who shall own or have in his possession any instru-
ment of measurement for oysters which differs in size or descrip-
tion from the measures hereinbefore mentioned, with intent to
use the same for measuring oysters, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and punished accordingly by a court of competent
jurisdiction; all tubs to be stamped by the proper officer of the
locality where such tubs are used.

1888, ch. 281, sec. 8.

64. In addition to the charges herein mentioned for compensa-
tion to the general measurers of oysters, it shall be unlawful for
the buyer of any cargo or part of a cargo of oysters sold in the
shell to exact of, or retain from, the proceeds of said cargo or
part of a cargo due the seller, a larger or greater sum or amount
than one cent per bushel, in which shall be included the amount
now allowed by law to be paid by the seller to the licensed
measurer; and any person or persons charging or exacting a larger
sum shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars upon conviction
before any justice of the peace, one-half of said fine to be paid
to the informer.

Propagation of Oysters.

1886, ch. 314, sec. 1.

65. The sum of five thousand dollars is appropriated, to be
used and applied by the commander of the State fishery force, in
the purchase of oyster shells to be planted or sown in the waters
of the Chesapeake bay during the months of May and June, in
such places as the commander may determine, for the purpose of
catching spat and experimenting in the propagation of oysters;
and the commander shall make a return of his work and an item-
ized account of his expenditure of said amount to the comp-
troller, and shall give notice of the location of the grounds so
sown by him, in at least three newspapers published in Baltimore