ACT. 72. 1 OYSTERS. 219

ery Force, to be charged equally to the buyer and seller, but to
be paid weekly to the Comptroller of the State Treasury, or his
agent, by the buyers; the certificate given the general measurer
and inspector shall be by him mailed weekly to the Comp-
troller, or his agent, and in case the amounts of money shown
to be due, be not paid in one week thereafter to the Comp-
troller, or his agent, which is hereby required to be done, the
properties of the parties so indebted may be levied on and sold
by the said Comptroller, or his agent, as in cases of taxes in
default, without other process of law; the tax of one cent
per bushel hereby levied is also made a charge on oysters sold
by commission merchants and others selling by less than the
cargo, and also a tax of three cents per barrel containing not
more than three bushels; on oysters in bag, a tax of two cents
per bag containing not more than two bushels; and all trans-
portation companies carrying oysters in the shell, consigned
to Baltimore, shall furnish to the oyster inspector or collector
of oyster tax a copy of his manifest, showing the number of
bushels on board on arrival of steamer and to whom consigned,
and the special inspectors are charged with the duty of seeing
that proper returns are made for the purposes of this Act by
such commission merchants or retailers; and in the perform-
ance of the duty the said special inspectors are authorized and
directed to visit the places where oysters less than cargoes are
sold and get from such sellers a statement, under oath, as to the
number of bushels sold from time to time, and to return to the
general measurers and inspectors a certificate thereof, to be
forwarded to the Comptroller, as is required in the case of
the certificates for cargoes, and the payments of the amounts
so found to be due shall be similarly enforced. All such special
inspectors may be removed at any time by the Commander for
neglect or malfeasance in office, and said Commander shall re-
port to the Governor any neglect of a general measurer or
inspector. The Commander of the State Fishery Force shall
furnish to each of said special inspectors certificates in book
form, supplied with carbon paper, so that. each of said tripli-
cate certificates shall be exactly the same. The form of the
certificate shall be as follows:

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I hereby certify that I have this day inspected for Captain
, schooner , a cargo of oysters, sold to,
and found the same to contain bushels of merchantable
oysters, and bushels of unmerchantable oysters.

Signed
Approved April 6, 1908.