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SFCTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land. That an additional section be and the same is hereby
added to Article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
" Oysters," as amended by Acts of 1894, chapter 380, and to
be designated as section 67 B.
67 B. All shucked oysters opened at any oyster house in this
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State or any other place where oysters are opened or sold as a
business or delivered to proprietors of any such oyster house or
other place, shall be shucked by the gallon, and not by the can,
or vessel of any other name and designation, and it shall not
be lawful for the proprietor of any such place to contract with
any person to shock or open oysters at any such house or for
the proprietors thereof for the purpose of shipping the same
to the customers of said proprietor otherwise than by the gallon.
The said oyster house or the proprietors thereof may, in consid-
eration of the quantity of water contained in shucked oysters, use
a cup, which is hereby declared and determined to be an oyster
gallon cup, which shall contain nine pints, and no more, and no
other than this standard measure or said oyster gallon cup shall
be used in said houses or by the proprietors thereof, in measur-
ing any oysters received by them from the shuckers. Said
oyster gallon cup shall be inspected and stamped by the same
officer in the city of Baltimore or in any of the counties of the
State, as is now required by law to inspect and stamp measures,
and the person neglecting so to have the same stamped and
inspected shall be subject to the same fines and penalties as are
now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for neglecting to
have inspected and stamped the said gallon measure, and any
person using any other measure than the one above prescribed
in any such oyster house or similar place in this State or any
proprietor of any of said house using any other than the above
prescribed measures to measure any oysters received by him
from shuckers, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof before any justice of the peace in said city or
county, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hun-
dred dollars, in the discretion of the justice of the peace trying
the same, and shall stand committed until such tine and costs
are paid, which fine shall be paid to the State of Maryland ;
but the person so convicted shall have the right of appeal, as
now provided by law in other criminal cases.
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Oysters
shucked by
the gallon.
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