116 OYSTERS. [ART. 72.

each from Dorchester, Somerset and Queen Anne's counties,
and one each from Kent, Calvert and Charles counties, at a
salary of forty-five dollars per month during the oyster season,
and they shall be stationed at such places as in the judgment
of the commander of the State fishery force their services may
be needed. Before assuming the duties of their offices, the
said special inspectors shall take an oath, to be administered
by said commander, to diligently and faithfully discharge the
duties of their said offices; the said special inspectors shall
inspect all oysters in the district to which he is assigned; upon
the inspection of any such oysters, such special inspector shall
make a certificate of the number of bushels in triplicate, one of
which shall be given to the purchaser, one to the seller and
the other daily to the general measurer and inspector of the
district where such inspection occurred; a charge of three-
quarters of a cent per bushel is hereby levied to help defray the
expense of such inspection and other expenses of the State
fishery force, to be charged equally to the buyer and seller,
but to be paid weekly to the comptroller of the State treasury
or his agent by the buyer; the certificate given the general
measurer and inspector shall be by him mailed weekly to the
comptroller or his agent, and in case the amounts of money
shown to be due not paid in one week thereafter to the comp-
troller or his agent, which is hereby required to be done, the
property of the parties so indebted may be levied on and sold
by the said comptroller or his agent, as in cases of taxes in
default, without other process of law; the tax of three-quarters
of a 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 also a tax of three cents per barrel
containing not more than three bushels; on oysters in bags a
tax of two cents per bag containing not more than two bushels;

and all transportation companies carrying oysters in the shell
consigned to Baltimore shall furnish to the oyster inspector or
collector of oyster tax a copy of his manifest, showing the
number of bushels on board on arrival of steamer and to whom
consigned, and the special inspectors are charged with the duty
of seeing that proper returns are made for the purposes of this
sub-title by such commission merchants or retailers; and in the
performance of the duty the said 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