EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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68. The Governor, at each session of the General Assem-
bly, shall appoint four persons for the city of Baltimore, one
for Cambridge, one for Annapolis, one for Oxford, one for
Crisfield and one for Nanticoke, to be known as general
measurers and inspectors of oysters for the city, town or port
and adjacent waters for which they shall be respectively
appointed. Each .general measurer and inspector of oysters
for the city of Baltimore shall give bond to the State of
Maryland in the sum of three thousand dollars, and all other
general measurers and inspectors and all the special inspec-
tors shall give bond to said State in the sum of one thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of their duties; and the
general measurers and inspectors of oysters shall have the
same power and authority over oysters sold in the waters
adjacent to the port for which they shall be appointed as
hereinafter given to the general measurers and inspectors
over such city, town or port for which they shall be respec-
tively named.

69. It shall be the duty of the commander of the State
Fishery Force, at the commencement of, or during the oyster

CHAP. 188

General meas-
urers and
inspectors of
oysters to be
appointed.

season in each year, to appoint from the counties producing
oysters for packing purposes in the State, not exceeding
twenty, special inspectors, to be appointed as follows: two
each from Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Talbot and Wicomico
counties; three each from Dorchester, Somerset and Queen
Anne's counties, and one each from Kent, Calvert and Charles
counties, at a salary of forty-five dollars per month during
the oyster season, and they shall be stationed at such places
as in the judgment of the commander of the State Fishery
Force their services may be needed. Before assuming the

Special inspec
tors to be
appointed.

duties of their offices, the said special inspectors shall take
in oath, to be administered by said commander, to diligently
aid faithfully discharge the duties of their said offices; the
aid special inspectors shall inspect all oysters in the dis-
tict to which he is assigned; upon the inspection of any such
Oysters, such special inspector shall make a certificate of the
number of bushels in triplicate, one of which shall be given
to he purchaser, one to the seller and the other daily to the
general measurer and inspector of the district where such
inspection occurred; a charge of three-quarters of a cent per
buslel is hereby levied to help defray the expense of such
inspestion and other expenses of the State Fishery Force, to.

Oath to bo
taken.