Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners. 131 



other process of law. The tax of two cents per bushel hereby 

 levied is also made a charge on oysters sold by commission mer- 

 chants and others selling by less than the cargo, and also a tax of 

 six cents per barrel, containing not more than three bushels; on 

 oysters in bag, a tax of four cents per bag containing not more 

 than two bushels, and all transportation companies carrying oysters 

 in the shell consigned to Baltimore shall furnish to the oyster in- 

 spector 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 purpose of 

 this Act, by such commission merchants or retailers; and in the 

 performance of their 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 for- 

 warded to the Comptroller, as is required in the case of the certifi- 

 cates 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 mal- 

 feasance in office, and said Commander shall report to the Gov- 

 ernor any neglect of a general measurer or inspector. The Com- 

 mander 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 triplicate certificates shall be exactly the 

 same. The form of the certificate shall be as follows : 



19 ••• 



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. 



Signed 



Section 69A. The Comptroller of the State Treasury shall 

 pass one-half of the amounts paid in by the buyers, as provided in 

 Section 69, to the credit of a fund to be known as a "Natural 

 Oyster Bed Reshelling Fund." 



