118 OYSTERS. [ART. 72.

special inspector from any house or district whenever he may
deem it best for the good of the service to enforce the proper
inspection, the cull law and the collection of the tax for the
oyster fund.

1900, ch. 380. 1906, ch. 188.

71. It shall be the duty of said general measurers and
inspectors of oysters to see that the law in reference to the
inspection of oysters be strictly complied with by all subor-
dinates, 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 sub-title. 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 inspected or
measured in the city, town or port for which they shall be
respectively appointed.

Ibid.

72. No person after the passage of this sub-title shall act as
a measurer of oysters in Baltimore city, except the general
measurer and inspector of oysters, and such persons who shall
be duly licensed measurers for said city; any person, after the
passage of this sub-title, who shall desire to engage in the
business of oyster measurer in Baltimore city, shall, before he
undertakes to act as such, first apply to the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore city for a license so to do, which license
shall be issued upon application, and the payment to said clerk
of a license fee of five dollars and fifty cents; five dollars of
said fee shall be by said clerk accounted for and paid over to
the State, to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, and the
remaining fifty cents shall be applied by said clerk to his own
use and fee for issuing said license; said oyster measurers shall
also take the usual oath of office, and give bond to the State of
Maryland in the penalty of one hundred dollars each for the
faithful performance of their duties. The general measurers