114 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

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, and
eighteen inches across from inside to inside from the top; a
'bushel and one-half tub shall measure nineteen inches across
the top from inside to inside, eighteen inches across the
bottom from inside to inside, and twenty-four inches diago-
nally from the inside chime to the top; a three-bushel tub
shall measure twenty-four inches across the top from inside
to inside, twenty-two inches from inside to inside at the
bottom, and twenty-nine twenty-six-hundredths inches diago-
nally from the inside chime to the top, and all oysters meas-
ured in the shell as required by law shall be even measure to
the top of the tub only, 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 instrument of meas-
urement for oysters in the shell which differ in size or descrip-
tion from the measure hereinbefore mentioned, or shall demand
a greater measure than hereinbefore mentioned, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and punished upon conviction before a
court of competent jurisdiction, to be fined a sum of not less
than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or com-
mitted to the house of correction for a period of not less than
three months nor more than six months, or both, in the dis-
cretion of the judge or justice of the peace trying the same;
and in case a fine is imposed under the provisions of this
section, said fine to be paid over by the officer making the
arrest to the Comptroller of the State, to be credited to the
oyster fund; one-half, however, to be paid to the informer,
unless he be an officer of the State fishery force. Said meas-
ures shall also be the standard measure for shells, and the use
of any other measure for that purpose shall be punished, as is
prescribed by this section, for the use of any other measures
for measuring oysters, and the measurers or special inspectors