1602 OYSTERS. [ART. 27

1904, ch. 341, sec. 55H.

65. Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions
of this article relating to culling or of violating the preceding
section, and who shall have committed such offense upon the
waters of the Potomac river, shall not be subject to the penal-
ties prescribed by section 10 of the article, but in lieu, thereof
shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, and shall in addition be adjudged to have
the cargo of oysters found not to be within the requirements of
this article relating to culling confiscated and placed back upon
the bottoms from which they were taken. It shall be the duty
of the inspector or other officer to have such oysters placed
upon the said bottoms.

Ibid. sec. 3.

66. The provisions of sections 9, 60, 62, 64 and 65 of this
article shall take effect from the date of taking effect in the
State of Virginia of an act embodying the provisions of said
sections as enacted by said sections, and of an act applicable
to the waters of the Potomac river embodying the provisions of
sections 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of this article, as heretofore
enacted by the general assembly of Maryland; provided, that
a different arrangement or form in which these provisions shall
be enacted by the State of Virginia, or a difference in the penal-
ties prescribed, except in the case of section 65, or a difference
in the designation of any official charged with duty under any
provision of said sections shall not be considered a failure
to embody the provisions herein set forth, and upon the
taking effect in the State of Virginia of the provisions herein
prescribed the governor of Maryland shall issue his proclama-
tion declaring said provisions to be effective.

1894, ch 380, sec. 56

67. Nothing in the eight preceding sections shall be con-
strued in any way to impair, alter or abridge any rights which
either State or the citizens thereof may be entitled to, either
by, through, under or against the compact entered into between
the States of Maryland and Virginia on March 28, 1785, or any
existing law of either of said two States.

General Measurers and Inspectors.

Ibid. sec. 57. 1900, ch 380.

68. The governor, at each session of the general assembly
shall appoint five persons for the city of Baltimore, two per-