ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 643
for Baltimore City, at a: salary of seventy-five dollars per

month, while actually employed during' the oyster season. Be-

fore assuming the duties of their offices the said special in-
spectors shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the
members of the Commission, to diligently and faithfully dis-
charge the duties of their said offices; each said special in-
spector shall inspect all oysters in the district to which he is
assigned; upon the inspection of any such oysters, each special
inspector shall make a certificate of the number of bushels in
Triplicate, one of which shall be given to the purchaser, one to
the seller and the other daily to the general measurer and in-
spector of the district where such inspection occurred; in or-
der to help defray the expense occasioned by the inspection of
oysters caught within the limits of the State of Maryland as

provided for by this section and by the other sections of this
Article, including the expense of the State Fishery Force grow-
ing out of the inspection by it of oysters caught within the
limits of the State of Maryland as required by the various
provisions of this Article, an inspection charge of two cents
per bushel is hereby levied upon all oysters caught with-
in the limits of the State of Maryland, unloaded from vessels

at the place in Maryland where said oysters are to be no fur-
ther shipped in bulk in vessels, to be charged equally to the buy-
er 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 Comptroller or his agent, and in case the amounts of
money shown to be due be not paid in one week thereafter to
the Comptroller 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 said in-
spection charge of two cents per bushel hereby levied
is also made a charge on oysters caught within the limits of the
State of Maryland and sold by commission merchants and
others selling by less than the cargo; and also an inspection
charge of six cents per barrel containing not more than
three bushels of oysters caught within the limits of the State of
Maryland: on oysters caught within the limits of the State
of Maryland contained in bags an inspection charge of
four cents per bag containing not more than two bushels; and
all transportation companies carrying oysters in the shell
caught within the limits of the State of Maryland, consigned
to Baltimore, shall furnish to the oyster inspector or collector