EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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interfere with the general measurers or inspectors of oysters
or the special inspectors in the discharge of their duties,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion before any justice of the peace or court of competent
jurisdiction shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs, one-
half of said fine to the informer, unless he be an officer under
this article, and the other half to the Comptroller, to the
credit of the oyster fund. In default of payment of fine and
costs, the party convicted shall be confined in jail for not
more than twenty days. The appointment of the general
measurers and inspectors and the special inspectors, as pro-
vided in Sections 68 and 69, shall be made on or before
September 1st of each year, and each and every inspector
shall report monthly to the Commander of the State Fishery
Force, or oftener, if required by him, concerning all the
oysters which may be disposed of within his inspection dis-
trict, and such reports shall be a full and complete account
of all sales of oysters that have been made within such
district.

77. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora-

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guilty of mis-
demeanor,
etc.

tion to engage in the business of packing or canning oysters
without first taking out a license to engage in such business
by application to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
in which the place of business of such applicant may be
situated, or to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, if
the place of business of such applicant shall be in Baltimore
city, and such applicant, at the time such license is issued
to him by the said clerk, shall pay to the said clerk the sum
of twenty-five dollars for such license, and said license shall
have effect from the first day of September in the year in
which it may have been obtained to the twenty-fifth day of
April, inclusive, next succeeding; and all said moneys received
for said licenses shall be paid Over and accounted for by the
several clerks of courts to the Comptroller of the State, to
be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, as provided by
Section 30 of this article.
78. If any person, firm or corporation shall engage or

License to be
taken out.

attempt to engage in the business of packing or canning
oysters without first obtaining a license, as provided in the
foregoing section he shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall be fined not less than two hundred and
fifty dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars for each
offense.

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.