LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

inclusive ; and at the same time the said Commander of the
State Fishery Force shall make assignments of the said general
measurers and inspectors of oysters to the districts in which
they are to perform their duties for the whole oyster season,
providing for a weekly change from district to district, so that
no general measurer and inspector of oysters shall serve more
than one week at a time in any one district, and in changing
the inspectors and measurers from district to district whenever
practicable, they shall be transported by the State Fishery
Force without charge for passage.

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62. All general measurers and inspectors of oysters shall
receive the sum of one hundred dollars per month each, as
salary, during the time they are engaged in the duties of their
respective offices, to be paid by the Treasurer on the warrant
of the Comptroller ; and to help provide for the payment of
the salaries of said general measurers and inspectors the sum
of ten cents per hundred bushels of oysters sold is hereby
levied as a tax ou all oysters sold, to be paid by the seller and
to be collected by the buyer, when oysters are sold by the
cargo or at wholesale, and when sold at retail by commission
merchants selling oysters, to be collected by said commission
merchants ; and any seller who shall refuse to pay the said ten
cents per one hundred bushels of oysters, and any buyer or
commission merchant who shall refuse to collect and account
for the moneys so collected, as well as all other persons who
shall violate any of the provisions of this Article from sections
57 to 62, both inclusive, or who shall interfere with the general
measurers and inspectors of oysters in the discharge of their
duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction before any justice of the peace or court of compe-
tent jurisdiction shall pay a fine of twenty dollars and costs,
one-half of said tine to the informer and the other half to the
Comptroller to the credit of the oyster fund ; in default of fine
and costs the party convicted shall be confined in jail for not
more than twenty days. It shall be the duty of all buyers of
oysters or commission merchants to collect the said tax and
monthly report to the Comptroller, under oath, the amonnt so
collected, accompanied by a check, iu payment of the amount
so collected, and the Comptroller is hereby directed to apply
the receipts therefrom, first, to the payment of the salaries of
the general measurers and inspectors of oysters ; and secondly,
to the credit of the oyster fund. Any person who shall fail to
collect said tax shall be liable on conviction to a fine in double
the amount of such tax not collected, to be applied as afore-

Salary.