490 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

67 A. Every person or member of a firm, or member of a cor-
poration engaged in the business of selling oysters on commission,
shall, on or before the first day of September, in each year, take
out a license to engage in such business, by application to the
clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the place of
business of such applicant may be situated, or to the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, if the place of business of such appli-
cant shall be in Baltimore city; and such applicant, at the time
of issuing such license, shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars;
and all said money received for said license shall be paid over
and accounted for by the said several clerks of courts to the
comptroller of the State, to be placed to the credit of the "Oyster
Fund, " as provided by section twenty-nine of this article; and if
any person, member of a firm or member of a corporation shall
engage or attempt to engage in the business of selling oysters on
commission without first obtaining a license, as provided in this
section, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars for each offense.

Smith v. School Commrs., 81 Md 516.

Shucking Oysters-
1893, ch. 260.

67 B. All shucked oysters opened at any oyster house in this
State or any other place where oysters are opened or sold as a
business or delivered to proprietors of any such oyster house or
other place, shall be shucked by the gallon, and not by the can
or vessel of any other name and designation, and it shall not be
lawful for the proprietor of any such place to contract with any
person to shuck or open oysters at any such house or for the
proprietors thereof, for the purpose of shipping the same to the
customers of said proprietor otherwise than by the gallon. The
said oyster house or the proprietors thereof may, in consideration
of the quantity of water contained in shucked oysters, use a cup,
which is hereby declared and determined to be an oyster gallon
cup, which shall contain nine pints, and no more, and no other
than this standard measure or said oyster gallon cup shall be
used in said houses or by the proprietors thereof, in measuring
any oysters received by them from the shuckers. Said oyster
gallon cup shall be inspected and stamped by the same officer in