1610 OYSTERS. [ART. 72

cation for license, or in any report or return required to be
made under this article, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury
and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than
one month nor more than six months, or be both fined and
imprisoned at the discretion of the court; provided, that if any
person so applying for license shall prefer to do so, he may
obtain the same for himself, firm or body corporate by paying
therefor the sum of three hundred dollars and shall not be
required to report, under oath, the number of bushels handled
by him, his firm or corporation, or otherwise disclose the
operations of his business.
Applegarth v. State, 89 Md. 144.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 67 A.

79. Every person or member of a firm, or member of a cor-
poration engaged in the business of selling oysters on commis-
sion shall, on or before the first day of September, in each
year, take out a license to engage in such business, by appli-
cation to the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which
the place of business of such applicant may be situated, or to
the clerk of the court of common pleas, if the place of busi-
ness of such applicant shall be in Baltimore city; and such
applicant, at the time of issuing such license, shall pay the
sum of twenty-five dollars; and all said money received for
said license shall be paid over and accounted for by the said
several clerks of courts to the comptroller of the State, to be
placed to the credit of the oyster fund, as provided by section
30; and if any person, member of a firm or member of a cor-
poration shall engage or attempt to engage in the business of
selling oysters on commission without first obtaining a license,
as provided in this section, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.

Smith v. School Commrs., 81 Md. 516.

Shucking Oysters.

1898, ch 260, sec. 67 B.

80. All shucked oysters opened at any oyster house in this
State or any other place where oysters are opened or sold as a
business or delivered to proprietors of any such oyster house
or other place shall be shucked by the gallon and not by the
can or vessel of any other name and designation, and it shall
not be lawful for the proprietor of any such place to contract