ART. 72] PACKING OYSTERS. 115

are hereby forbidden to handle or interfere with the oysters in
or upon the tub or measure for the purpose of pressing or
pushing down same, under penalty of removal from office and
a fine of ten dollars for each offense.

Packing Oysters.

1900, ch. 380.

66' It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to engage in the business of packing or canning oysters with-
out first taking out a license to engage in such business by
application under oath from the clerk of the Circuit Court for
the county in which the place of business of such applicant
may be situated, or from the clerk of the Court of Common
Fleas, if the place of business of such applicant shall be in
Baltimore city, and such applicant shall state the number of
bushels of oysters which he expects shucked during the suc-
ceeding eight months, and at the time of issuing such license
shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for such license, and
in addition thereto the sum of one dollar per thousand bushels
for every thousand bushels over ten thousand bushels, so as
aforesaid estimated in his application, as the total number of
bushels to be shucked during said season, and all said moneys
received for said licenses 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 29 of this article. It shall be the duty of
each person, firm or corporation obtaining a license under this
section to make a sworn report and return, under oath, within
thirty days after the twenty-fifth day of April in each year, to
the clerk of the court from which he may have obtained such
license, of the total amount or number of bushels of oysters
shucked by him during the season preceding said twenty-fifth
day of April, and to pay to said clerk the further license
money of one dollar per thousand for each thousand bushels
of oysters shucked by himself or his firm or corporation
during such season over and above the estimate given in his
application for a license, which report or return shall be for-
warded to the Comptroller; and if said report or return shall