646 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 280

beyond the limits of said State, the burden shall be upon the
person making such claim to establish the truth thereof by clear
and satisfactory evidence. All such special inspectors may
be removed at any time by the Conservation Commission for
neglect or malfeasance in office. The Commission shall fur-
nish to each of said special inspectors certificates in book form,
supplied with carbon paper, so that eacb of said triplicate
certificates shall be exactly the same; the form of the certifi-
cates shall be as follows:

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I hereby certify that I have this day inspected for captain
....................... of the schooner................

a cargo of oysters caught beyond the limits of the State of
Maryland, and sold to....................... and found

same to contain............ bushels of merchantable oysters

and............ bushels of unmerchantable oysters.

(Signed).............................

The provisions of this section shall apply to all oysters
caught beyond the limits of the State of Maryland and brought
within this State, irrespective of the fact that the said oysters
may have been caught upon bottoms leased to or controlled by
the person in whose possession they are inspected within this
State, it being the intention of the law that the tax on all such
oysters shall be collected, whether or not there be an actual
sale thereof prior to shucking or shipping the same.

The State Conservation Commission of Maryland shall not
expend more than eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) of the
funds derived from the fees provided for in Sections 70 and
7l of this Article in planting oyster shells and in transplanting
small oysters.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. In case any
section or provision of this Act shall be held unconstitutional
or invalid, the same shall not be held to affect any other sec-
tion or provision of this Act.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 280.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 6
and 9 of Chapter 358 of the Acts of 1920, title "An Act to
authorize and direct the County Commissioners of St.