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ing thereto a new section, to be known as Section 69A, to come in 

 after said Section 69 as re-enacted, and by adding thereto five other 

 new sections, to come in after Section 1 19, and to be numbered Sec- 

 tions 120, 121, 122, 123 and 124, respectively; and that said Sec- 

 tion 69 as re-enacted and said new Sections 69A, 120, 121, 122, 123 

 and 124 shall read as follows: 



Section 69. It shall be the duty of the Commander of the 

 State Fishery Force, at the commencement of or during the oyster 

 season in each year, to appoint from the counties producing oysters 

 for packing purposes in the State, not exceeding twenty special in- 

 spectors, to be appointed as follows : Two each from Anne Arundel, 

 St. Mary's, Talbot and Wicomico Counties ; three each from Dor- 

 chester, Somerset and Queen Anne's Counties, and one each from 

 Kent, Calvert and Charles Counties, at a salary of forty-five dol- 

 lars per month, during the oyster season, and they shall be stationed 

 at such places as in the judgment of the Commander of the State 

 Fishery Force their services may be needed. Before assuming the 

 duties of their offices the said special inspectors shall take an oath, 

 to be administered by said Commander, to diligently and faithfully 

 discharge the duties of their said offices. The said special in- 

 spectors shall inspect all oysters in the district to which he is as- 

 signed; upon the inspection of any such oysters each special in- 

 spector 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 inspector of the dis- 

 trict where such inspection occurred. A charge of two cents per 

 bushel is herebv levied, one-half of which is to help defray the ex- 

 pense of such inspection, and the other expenses of the State Fish- 

 erv Force, and the other half of which is to be expended in reshell- 

 ing and otherwise cultivating and improving the natural ovster beds 

 and bars in the waters of the State, to be charged enuallv to the 

 buver and seller, but to be paid weeklv to the Comptroller of the 

 State Treasurv, or his a^ent. by the buvers; the certificate given 

 the General Measurer and Inspector shall be bv him mailed weeklv 

 to the Comptroller, or his agent, and in case the amounts of money 

 shown to be due, not paid in one week thereafter to the Comptroller, 

 or his a^ent, which is herebv required to be done, the properties of 

 the parties so indebted mav be levied on and sold bv the said 

 Comptroller, or his agent, as in cases of taxes in default, without 



