ART. 72] GENERAL MEASURERS AND INSPECTORS. 1607

tub or a three bushel tub, and no instruments shall be used
for measuring oysters in the shell but an iron circular tub
with straight sides and straight solid bottom, with holes in
bottom for draining, such holes to be no larger, however,
than one inch in diameter; a half-bushel tub shall have the
following dimensions, all measurements to be from inside to
inside : fifteen inches across the top, thirteen inches across the
bottom, and seventeen inches diagonally from the inside chime
to the top; a bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half
inches across at the bottom from inside to inside, twenty-one
inches diagonally from the inside chime to the top, and eigh-
teen inches across from inside to inside from the top; a bushel
and one-half tub shall measure nineteen inches across the top
from inside to inside, eighteen inches across the bottom from
inside to inside, and twenty-four inches diagonally from the
inside chime to the top; a three-bushel tub shall measure
twenty-four inches across the top from inside to inside, twenty-
two inches from inside to inside at the bottom, and twenty-
nine twenty-six-hundredths inches diagonally from the inside
chime to the top, and all oysters measured in the shell as
required by law shall be even measure to the top of the tub
only, and any person or persons engaged in the business of
buying or selling oysters in this State who shall own or have
in his possession any instrument of measurement for oysters
in the shell which differs in size or description from the measure
hereinbefore mentioned, or shall demand a greater measure
than hereinbefore mentioned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and punished upon conviction before a court of competent
jurisdiction, to be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or committed to the house of
correction for a period of not less than three months nor more
than six months, or both, in the discretion of the judge or
. justice of the peace trying the same; and in case a fine is
imposed under the provisions of this section, said fine to be
paid over by the officer making the arrest to the comptroller
of the State, to be credited to the oyster fund; one-half, how-
ever, to be paid to the informer, unless he be an officer of the
State fishery force. Said measures shall also be the standard
measure for shells, and the use of any other measure for that
purpose shall be punished, as is prescribed by this section
for the use of any other measures for measuring oysters, and
the measurers or special inspectors 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