220 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 353.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 72 of
article 72 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Oysters, " relating to oyster measures as the same was
repealed and re-enacted by chapter 188, Acts of 1906.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 72 of article 72 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, as the same was repealed and re-enacted by
chapter 188, Acts of 1906, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 72. No person, after the passage of this Act, shall act
as a measurer of oystery in Baltimore city, except the general
measurer and inspector of oysters, and such person who shall
be duly licensed measurers for said city; any person, after the
passage of this Act, who shall desire to engage in the business
of oyster measurer in Baltimore city shall, on or before the
first day of September in each year, before he undertakes to act
as such, first apply to the clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more city for a license so to do, which license shall be issued
upon application, and the payment to said clerk of a license
fee of five dollars and fifty cents, which license shall expire on
the first day of May of the following year. Five dollars of said
fee shall be by said clerk accounted for and paid over to the
State, to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund, and the
remaining fifty cents shall be applied by said clerk to his own
use and fee for issuing said license; said oyster measurers shall
also take the usual oath of office, and give bond to the State of
Maryland in the penalty of one hundred dollars each for the
faithful performance of their duties. The general measurers
and inspectors of oysters in Baltimore city, or a majority of
them, are empowered and authorized to suspend the right or
privilege of any person licensed to measure or inspect oysters
in said city, to measure or inspect oysters under said license;
provided, however, that no such right to suspend shall exist,
unless a charge is pending against such licensed measurer or
inspector for a violation of the provisions of this article, in ref-
erence to the measurement and inspection of oysters, and if
such charge shall be dismissed by a court of competent juris-
diction, such suspension shall end; and upon notice from the
buyer or seller of oysters, the general measurer and inspector
of oysters shall designate the special inspectors and the licensed
measurers and inspectors to inspect the oysters out of said
vessel.

Approved April 8, 1908.