486 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

monthly report to the comptroller, under oath, the amount so
collected, accompanied by a check, in payment of the amount so
collected, and the comptroller is hereby directed to apply the
receipts therefrom, first, to the payment of the salaries of the gen-
eral measurers and inspectors of oysters; and secondly, to the
credit of the" Oyster Fund. " Any person who shall fail to collect
said tax shall be liable on conviction to a. fine in double the
amount of such tax not collected, to be applied as aforesaid, and
upon default shall be imprisoned as aforesaid; and should any
such buyers collect and fail to pay over as directed to the comp-
troller the tax levied as aforesaid, they shall be deemed guilty of
"larceny after a trust" and be punished as is provided by article
27 of the Code of Public General Laws for the punishment of
that crime. The appointments of the general measurers and
inspectors of oysters, as provided in section 57, shall as to the
first appointments to be made, be made on or before August 1,
1898; provided, that nothing in any of the provisions of this
article shall be construed to prevent any general measurer and
inspector of oysters from serving in any county district at least
three weeks, and each and every inspector shall report monthly
to the commander of the oyster navy, or oftener if required by
him, concerning all the oysters that may be disposed of within
his inspection district, and such reports shall be a full and com-
plete account of all sales of oysters that have been made within
his district.

1896, ch. 418.

63, All oysters sold 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 measurement 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 diagonally from the inside chime to the top; a
bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half inches across at the
bottom from inside to inside, twenty-one inches diagonally from
the inside chime to the top, eighteen inches across from inside