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	818	LAWS OF MARYLAND. CHAPTER 475. AN ACT to repeal section 18 of Article ninety-seven of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Weights and Measures," sub-title "Potatoes," and to re- enact the same with amendments.
	Repeal.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That section eighteen of article ninety-seven of the Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Weights and Measures" sub-title "Potatoes," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :
	How pota- toes to be sold.	18. Potatoes in this State shall be sold by weight at the rate of fifty-six pounds to the bushel, and any person offending against the provisions of this section, shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the city or county, where said offence may be committed.
	Effective.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 4, 1896. CHAPTER 476. AN ACT to repeal Section two of Chapter three hundred and fifty-three of the Acts of the General Assembly passed at the session of eighteen hundred and ninety, prohibiting the taking of oysters with scoops, scrapes, drag, dredge or any similar instrument, in certain waters of Somerset county, and re-enact the same with amendments.
	Repeal.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That section two of chapter three hundred and fifty-three of the acts of the General Assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :
	Penalty for violations.	2. That any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars for each and every offense, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such fine and costs and charges shall be fully paid and satisfied, and every and any canoe, boat or vessel captured and convicted of