ART. 72] GENERAL MEASURERS AND INSPECTORS. 485

to suspend the right or privilege of any person, licensed to
measure or inspect oysters in said city, to measure or inspect
oysters under said license; provided, however, that no such right
to suspend shall exist unless a charge is pending against said
licensed measurer and inspector, for a violation of the provisions
of this article, in reference to the measurement and inspection
of oysters, and if such 'charge shall be dismissed by a court of
competent jurisdiction, such suspension shall end; and upon
notice from the buyer or seller of oysters, the general measurer
and inspector of oysters shall designate the measurer and inspec-
tor, or licensed measurer and inspector, to measure and inspect
the oysters sold out of said vessel.

1898, ch. 449.

62. All general measurers and inspectors of oysters shall
receive the sum of one hundred dollars per month each, as salary,
during the time they are engaged in the duties of their respective
offices, to be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comp-
troller; and to help provide for the payment of the salaries of
said general measurers and inspectors the sum of ten cents per
hundred bushels of oysters sold is hereby levied as a tax on all
oysters sold, to be paid by the seller and to be collected by the
buyer, when oysters are sold by the cargo or at wholesale, and
when sold at retail by commission merchants selling oysters, to
be collected by said commission merchants; and any seller who
shall refuse to pay the said ten cents per one hundred bushels of
oysters, and any buyer or commission merchant who shall refuse
to collect and account for the moneys so collected, as well as all
other persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this
article from sections 57 to 62, both inclusive, or who shall inter-
fere with the general measurers and inspectors of oysters in the
discharge of their duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction before any justice of the peace or
court of competent jurisdiction shall pay a fine of twenty dollars
and costs, one-half of said fine to the informer and the other half
to the comptroller to the credit of the oyster fund; in default of
fine and costs the party convicted shall be confined in jail for not
more than twenty days. It shall be the duty of all buyers of
oysters or commission merchants to collect the said tax and