ART. 72] GENERAL MEASURERS AND INSPECTORS. 1605

board of inspectors provided for the city of Baltimore in section
68 of this article, and the general measures and inspectors
provided in said section 68 shall be assigned to and remain
during the whole season at the specific points mentioned in
said section, subject, however, to the direction of the com-
mander, and the commander of the State fishery force shall
have general control and supervision over all measurers and
inspectors whether appointed by the governor or himself, and
the said inspectors and measurers are hereby required to report
to him whenever he shall require the same, and if they shall
refuse or neglect to make such report they shall be fined for
each such failure or refusal the sum of ten dollars, to be
deducted from their salaries, and said commander shall have
the power to transfer any inspector or measurer from any house
or district whenever he may deem it best for the good of the
service to enforce the proper measurement, the cull law and the
collection of the tax for the oyster fund.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 60. 1900, ch. 380.

71. It shall be the duty of said general measurers and
inspectors of oysters to see that the law in reference to the
measurement and inspection of oysters be strictly complied with
by all subordinates, and the general measurers and inspectors
of oysters shall have authority at all times to enter all places
and all vessels where oysters are being measured and inspected
in the shell and to inspect all the measures or instruments used
in measuring oysters and to see that the inspection laws are
properly enforced and if the measures are incorrect the said
general measurer and inspector of oysters shall take possession
of the incorrect measures and the inspectors of oysters are
authorized, directed and required to arrest any person or
persons violating any of the provisions of this article; it shall
be the further duty of the general measurers and inspectors of
oysters to return under oath to the comptroller of the State
annually a complete statement of the amount of oysters meas-
ured and inspected in the city, town or port for which they
shall be respectively appointed.

Ibid. sec. 61.

72. The general measurers and inspectors of oysters of
Baltimore city or a majority of them are empowered and
authorized to suspend the right or privilege of any person
licensed to measure or inspect oysters in said city to measure