ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 441
CHAPTER 248.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
81 of Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland (1929 Supplement), title "Oysters, " sub-title
"General Measurers and Inspectors. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 81 of Article 72 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (1929 Supplement); title
"Oysters, " sub-title "General Measurers and Inspectors, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Section 81. The Conservation Commissioner, at the
commencement of or during the oyster season in each year,
as needed, shall appoint from the counties producing
oysters for packing purposes in the State, not exceeding
twenty special inspectors at a salary of seventy-five dollars
per month, while actually employed during the oyster
season, and they shall be stationed at such places as in the
judgment of said Commissioner their services may be
needed. There shall also be appointed by the Commissioner
not over five special inspectors for Baltimore City, at a
salary of ninety dollars per month, while actually employed
during the oyster season. Before assuming the duties of
their offices the said special inspectors shall take an oath,
to be administered by the Commissioner, to diligently and
faithfully discharge the duties of their said offices; each
said special inspector shall inspect all oysters in the district
to which he is assigned; upon the inspection of any such
oysters, each 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; in order to help defray the ex-
penses occasioned by the inspection of oysters caught with-
in the limits of the State of Maryland as provided for by
this section and by the other sections of this Article, in-
cluding the expense of the State Fishery Force growing
out of the inspection by it of oysters caught within the
limits of the State of Maryland as required by the Various
provisions of this Article, an inspection charge of two
cents per bushel is hereby levied upon all oysters caught
within the limits of the State of Maryland, unloaded
from vessels at the place in Maryland where said oysters
are to be no further shipped in bulk in vessels, to be