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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the petitioner, the said goods shall be returned to said

petitioner by said examiner, and the costs shall be

Costs — how

taxed and paid as in criminal cases, but if the decision

paid.

is in favor of the examiner, said goods shall be de-

stroyed by said examiner, and the costs of the pro-

ceedings shall be paid by the petitioner. The state's

attorney of the several counties and Baltimore city

shall appear on behalf of said examiner in said pro-

ceedings.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all persons, firms,

joint stock companies or corporations who use shell
oysters for packing as hermetically sealed " Cove Oys-

ters," as a condition upon which they shall be per-

mitted by the state to carry on said business, shall

render a sworn statement at the end of each month to

the comptroller of the state treasury of the number

Condition to

of bushels of such oysters so used, and at the same

do business.

time pay into the state treasury one-tenth (1-10) of

one cent per bushel for each and every bushel of such

ojsters used for said purpose, to constitute a fund to

be called the " Oyster Packers' Fund," from which

the said persons so as aforesaid appointed examiners

shall be paid the salary and allowances hereinafter pro-

vided, if and so long as the same may be sufficient for

that purpose.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said examiners

shall, at the end of each month, make a sworn state-

Make sworn
statement.

ment to the comptroller of the treasury of the amount

of expense, not personal, necessarily incurred in the

discharge of their duties under this act, and the comp-

troller of the treasury shall thereupon draw his war-

rant on the treasury to the order of said examiner for

the payment of the same, together with one hundred

Salary.

and twenty-five dollars as monthly salary of such

examiner, provided there be in the treasury funds to

the credit of the fund aforesaid sufficient to pay the

same.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from September the first, eighteen hundred and

eighty-four.

Approved April 8, 1884.