1604 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

be charged equally to the buyer and seller, but to be paid
weekly to the comptroller of the State treasury by the buyer;
the certificates given the general measurer and inspectors shall
be by them mailed weekly to the comptroller, and in case the
amounts of money shown to be due be not paid in one week
thereafter to the comptroller, which is hereby required to be
done, the property of the parties so indebted may be levied on
and sold, as in cases of taxes in default, without other process
of law; the tax of one cent per bushel hereby levied is also
made a charge on oysters sold by commission merchants and
others selling by less than the cargo, and the measurers and
special inspectors are charged with the duty of seeing that
proper returns are made for the purpose of this article by such
commission merchants or retailers, and in the performance of
the duty the said measurers or special inspectors are author-
ized and directed to visit the places where oysters less than
cargoes are sold and get. from such sellers a statement, under
oath, as to the number of bushels sold from time to time, and
to return to the general measurers and inspectors a certificate
thereof to be forwarded to the comptroller, as is required in
the case of the certificates for cargoes, and the payments of
the amounts so found to be due shall be similiarly enforced.
All such mersurers and special- inspectors may be removed at
any time by the commander for neglect or malfeasance or mis-
feasance in office, and said commander shall report to the
governor any neglect of a general measurer or inspector.
The commander of the State fishery force shall furnish to each
of said measurers or special inspectors certificates in book
form supplied with carbon paper so that each of said triplicate
certificates shall be exactly the same. The form of certificate
shall be as follows :

19——

I hereby certify that I have this day measured for captain
————, schooner ————, a cargo of oysters, sold to ————,
and found the same to contain ———— bushels of merchantable
oysters and ———— bushels of unmerchantable oysters.

(Signed) ———————————————————,

Measurer or Special Inspector.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 59. 1900, ch. 380.

70. At the beginning of each oyster season the commander
of the State fishery force shall divide the inspection points
in Baltimore city into five inspection districts and organize the