ART 72] SHUCKING——COMPTROLLER'S DUTIES. 1611

with any person to shuck or open oysters at any such house
or for the proprietors thereof for the purpose of shipping the
same to the customers of said proprietor otherwise than by
the gallon. The said oyster house or the proprietors thereof
may, in consideration of the quantity of water contained in
shucked oysters, use a cup, which is hereby declared and
determined, to be an oyster gallon cup, which shall contain
nine pints and no more, and no other than this standard
measure or said oyster gallon cup shall be used in said houses
or by the proprietors thereof in measuring any oysters received
by them from the shuckers. Said oyster gallon cup shall be
inspected and stamped by the same officer in the city of Balti-
more or in any of the counties of the State, as is now required
by law to inspect and stamp measures, and the person neglect-
ing so to have the same stamped and inspected shall be subject
to the same fines and penalties as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law for neglecting to have inspected and
stamped the said gallon measure, and any person using any
other measure than the one above prescribed in any such
oyster house or similar place in this State or any proprietor
of any such house using any other than the above prescribed
measures to measure any oysters received by him from
shuckers shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction
thereof before any justice of the peace in said city or county
shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the justice of the peace trying the
same, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are
paid, which fine shall be paid to the State of Maryland; but
the person so convicted shall have the right of appeal as now
provided by law in other criminal cases.

Comptroller's Duties.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 68.

81. It shall be the duty of the comptroller to furnish the
clerks of the several courts of the State with forms of applica-
tions and license and of the reports or returns required by the
preceding sections; and it shall be the further duty of the
comptroller to furnish all other blanks required under this
article. Nothing in this article shall be construed to apply to
Worcester county as to the taking or catching of oysters in the
waters of said county.