FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

viction before any court having jurisdiction in this State, shall
be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars for each offence, or shall be also imprisoned,
in the discretion of the court trying the same.

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59. At the beginning of each oyster season the five general
measurers and inspectors of oysters for the city of Baltimore,
shall meet in said city and divide it in five oyster districts, to
be known as the first, second, third, fourth and fifth districts
of the city of Baltimore, so as to include all the territory
where oysters are landed from boats or vessels in said city ;
and the general measurers and inspectors of oysters shall
weekly change districts so that no general measurer and
inspector of oysters shall act the second time in any one
district until he has acted once in every other district.

Districts.

60. It shall be the duty of said general measurers and
inspectors of oysters to see that the licensed measurers and
inspectors are licensed as required by law, that they shall
properly measure and inspect the oysters, and that the law in
reference to the measurement and inspection of oysters be
strictly complied with; and the general measurers and inspec-
tors of oysters shall have the authority at all times to enter all
places and all vessels where oysters are being measured and
inspected in the shell, and to inspect all the measurements or
instruments used in measuring oysters, and to see that the
inspection laws are properly enforced; and if the measures are
incorrect the said general measurer and inspector of oysters
shall take possession of the incorrect measures; and the said
general measurers and inspectors of oysters are authorized,
directed and required to arrest any person or persons violating
any of the provisions of this article; and it shall be the duty of
the judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Balti-
more, or the judge of the Circuit Court for any of the counties
of this State, upon petition of any of the general oyster
measurers and inspectors of oysters, alleging that any licensed
measurer and inspector of oysters has been convicted of
violating any of the provisions of this section in reference to
the measurement and inspection of oysters, and the produc-
tion of the record of a copy thereof of the court, or justice
of the peace where such conviction was had, to suppress the
license of such licensed measurer and inspector; and no
license shall be granted to him for the remainder of the
oyster season. It shall be the further duty of the general
measurers and inspectors of oysters, under oath, to return to the

Duties of
general
measurers.