ART. 72] TIME FOR TAKING. 1577

five hundred dollars for each offense on conviction before a
court of competent jurisdiction; one-half of said fine to go
to the informer and the other one-half to the comptroller to
be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, unless the informer
be an officer of the State fishery force. And the general
inspectors and measurers or special inspectors shall be on duty
continuously during the working or delivery hours, viz : from
6 AM. to 8 P.M.

1894. ch. 380, sec 12.

13. It shall be the duty of general measurers and inspectors
of oysters and other officers of the police force to supervise the
operation of this article and diligently to aid in the enforce-
ment of its provisions, and they or any of them are authorized
and empowered to enter into any house or boat or any other
place where oysters may be dumped or stored to inspect the
same at any time; and any packer, commission man or boat-
man who shall refuse to open his house or boat where oysters
may be dumped or stored for the inspection thereof by the
officer whose duty it shall be to inspect the same, and any
person who shall conspire or agree with any other person to
evade any of the provisions of this article or who shall connive
at or participate in such violation shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and subject to the penalties prescribed in section
12 of this article.
State v. Applegarth, 81 Md. 297. Smith v. School Commrs, 81 Md. 515

Ibid sec 13.

14. Any general measurer or inspector of oysters in this
State who shall knowingly permit any evasion or violation of
this article to take place without causing the arrest of the
offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
of the same, shall be dismissed from the service and be fined
not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars,
in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace.

Time for Taking Oysters.

1894, ch 380, sec. 14. 1900, ch 380.

15. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to take or
catch oysters or have oysters in his or their possession between
the twenty-fifth day of April and the first day of September in
each and every year; provided, that oysters caught before the
twenty-fifth day of April may be disposed of at any time before

100