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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2 A. Whenever any auditor's report of distribution of the

proceeds of sale of real or personal property shall have been

Record of

ratified by any of the courts of this State, such audit and rati-

audits.

fication shall be forthwith recorded by the clerk of said court in

a book or books provided for that purpose, the cost of said record.

to be taxed in the costs of the case, and a certified copy of said

record shall be evidence; the provisions of this act shall not apply

to Somerset, Baltimore and Calvert counties.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 384.

AN ACT to repeal section sixty-three, of Article seventy-two, of

the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters,"'

sub-title "General Measurers of Oysters," and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section sixty-three, of Article seventy-two, of the Code of

To repeal

Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Oysters," sub-title "Gen-

eral Measurer of Oysters," be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 63. All oysters measured in this State shall be measured

either in a one-half bushel tub, a bushel tub, a bushel and one-

half tub or a three bushel tub, and all instruments of measure-

ments for measuring oysters in the shell shall be an iron circular

tub with straight sides and straight solid bottom with holes in

bottom if desired for draining, such holes to be no larger how-

ever than one inch in diameter; a half bushel tub shall have the

Oyster

following dimensions, all measurements to be from inside to

measures

inside : fifteen inches across the top, thirteen inches across the

bottom, and seventeen inches diagonal, from the inside chimb to

the top; a bushel tub shall measure sixteen and one-half inches

across at the bottom from inside to inside, twenty-one inches.

diagonal from the inside chimb to the top, and eighteen inches.

across from inside to inside at 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 diagonal from the inside chimb 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 and twenty-six one hundredths

inches diagonal from the inside chimb to the top, and all oystera