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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Suppression
of licenses of
licensed meas-
urer.

State in reference to the measurement of oysters,
and the production of the record or a copy there-
of, of the court or justice of the peace where such
conviction was had, to suppress the license of
such licensed measurer ; and no license shall be
granted him for the remainder of the oyster sea-
son in which such license was suppressed ; and
it shall further be the duty of the general meas-
urers of oysters, under oath, to return to the gov-
ernor of the state annually the amount of oys-
ters measured in the city, town or port for which
he shall be appointed.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the general
measurers of oysters of Baltimore city, or a ma-
jority of them, are hereby empowered and au-

May suspend
license.

thorized to suspend the right or privilege of any
person licensed to measure oysters in said city,
to so measure oysters under said license ; pro-
vided, however, that no such right to suspend
shall exist unless a charge is pending against
said licensed measurer for a violation of the laws
of this state in reference to the measurement of
oysters; and if such charge shall be dismissed by
a court of competent jurisdiction such suspen-
sion, if exercised by said general measurers of
oysters, shall end, and the captain or owner of
the vessel shall designate the measurer or
licensed measurer to measure the Oysters sold
out of said vessel.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the general

Compensation
—how collect-
ed and paid.

measurers of oysters shall receive a compensa-
tion for the faithful performance of their duties
of ten cents per hundred bushels, to be paid by
the seller and collected for the general meas-
urers of oysters ; when oysters are sold by the
cargo or wholesale, by the buyer; and when oys-
ters are sold in quantity or retail, by the com-
mission merchant selling such oysters : and any
seller who shall refuse to pay such compensa-
tion, and any buyer or commission merchant
who shall refuse to collect and pay over any
such compensation to the said general meas-
urers of oysters, as well as all other persons

Penalty for
violation.

who shall violate any of the provisions of this
act, or interfere with any of the general meas-
urers of oysters in the discharge of their duties,
upon conviction by any justice of the peace of