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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

upon such recognizance being given, the party convicted and
the vessel shall be discharged.

Compact of
1785.

56. Nothing in the five preceding sections shall be construed
in any way to impair, alter or abridge any rights which either
State or the citizens thereof may be entitled to, either by,
through, under or against the compact entered into between
the States of Maryland and Virginia on the twenty-eighth day
of March, seventeen hundred and eighty five, or any existing
law of either of said two States.

General
measurers
and
Inspectors.

57. The Governor at each session of the General Assembly
shall appoint five persons for the city of Baltimore, and one
person for each of all of the other ports or towns bordering
upon the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries' where there is a
packing house or houses, to be known as the general measurers
and inspectors of oysters for the city, town or port for which

Bond.

they shall respectively be appointed; each general measurer
and inspector of oysters shall give bond to the State of Mary-
land in the sum of three thousand dollars for the faithful per-
formance of his duties, and the general measurer and inspector
of oysters shall have the same power and authority over
oysters sold in the waters adjacent to the port for which they
shall be respectively appointed, as hereinafter given to the
general measurer and inspectors over such city, town or port
for which they are respectively appointed.

Licensed
oyster
measurers.

58. Any person or persons may obtain a license as a
licensed oyster measurer and inspector from the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for Baltimore city or the clerk of
the Circuit Court of any county wherein he is a citizen, by
making application and by taking an oath that he will faith-
fully perform the duties of a licensed oyster measurer and
inspector, and by paying a fee of twenty dollars for said
license, which amounts shall be paid by said clerks, respec-
tively, on or before the expiration of thirty days, to the
Comptroller, to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund; the
said license shall hold good for the oyster season. The said
licensed oyster measurers shall be under the direction and
control of the general oyster measurers and inspectors; the
said licensed oyster measurers and inspectors shall fairly and
impartially measure and inspect, as provided for in this article,
all oysters in the shell, and shall receive for their services one-
half cent per bushel, to be paid equally by the seller and buyer;
any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this
section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-