ART. 72] SALARY AND DUTIES OF INSPECTORS. 113

1900, ch. 380.

62. The general measurers and inspectors for Baltimore city
shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month each,
and all other general measurers and inspectors provided for
by section 57 shall receive the salary of fifty dollars per
month each, the said salaries to be paid only for those
months in which said measurers and inspectors are actually
engaged in the performance of the duties of their respective
offices by the Treasurer, on a warrant of the Comptroller,
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this article
from section 57 to 62, both inclusive, or who shall inter-
fere with the general measurers and inspectors of oysters,
or the measurers and special inspectors, in the discharge
of their duties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction before any justice of the peace or court
of competent jurisdiction shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and
costs, one-half of said fine to the informer, unless he be an
officer under this article, and the other half to the Comptroller,
to the credit of the oyster fund. In default of payment of
fines and costs, the party convicted shall be confined in jail
for not more than twenty days. The appointment of the gen-
eral measurers and inspectors and measurers and special
inspectors, as provided in sections 57 and 58, shall be made
on or before September first in each and every year, and
each and every inspector shall report monthly to the com-
mander of the State fishery force, 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 complete account of all sales of oysters that have
been made within such district.

Ibid.

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 no instruments shall be used
for measuring oysters in the shell but an iron circular tub
with straight sides and straight solid bottom, with holes in
bottom for draining, such holes to be no larger, however,