The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04

in his possession for sale shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That when
the purchaser or any other person shall
have reason to believe that any cargo of
oysters has been brought to the market
in violation of this law, the inspector
shall be called in to ascertain the fact,
and he shall thereupon cause the con-
tents of every fiftieth tub or measure to
be dumped in any convenient place to
be agreed on by the vendor and pur-
chaser, and the same shall be kept away
and separate from the other oysters or
oyster shells, and after the whole cargo,
vessel load or quantity of oysters so sold
shall have Deen measured and the
quantity ascertained, the inspector shall
in the presence of the vendor or his duly
authorized agent or employee, proceed
to separate from the oysters so set aside
all shells and small oysters less than
two and one. half inches in length, and
he shall proceed to measure the shells
and small oysters set aside as herein
before provided, and if said shells and
small oysters so set aside, after being so
separated from the marketable oysters,
shall be found to exceed five per cent of
the whole quantity so set aside as afore-
said, then the vendor shall be deemed
to have violated this act.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That any
person violating any section of this act,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not less than twenty-five dollars and
not more than three hundred dollars, in
the discretion of the judge of the court
or other tribunal before whom such
offender may be tried.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That all
oysters taken in the waters of the Chesa-
peake Bay or its tributaries, either in
the State of Maryland or Virginia, shall
be subject to the operation of the laws
of the State in which such oysters may
be offered for sale, and any person
offering oysters for sale or having the
same in his possession for sale, which
shall not have been culled as required
by the laws of the State in which they
may be offered for sale, shall be liable
to trial and conviction in the same man
ner that such persons would be if such
oysters had been caught in the State
where they are SO offered for sale, and
upon conviction shall be punished in
such manner as is provided by the laws
of the State in which such oysters may
be so offered for sale.
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act shall 60 into effect as soon as it is
adopted by the State of Virginia
through an act of her General Assembly,
and shall continue in full force and
operation until the same shall have
been repealed or altered by either State,
Sec Z. And be it enacted, That moth
ing in this act shall be construed in any
way to impair, alter or abridge any
rights which either STATE or the citizens
thereof, may be entitled to, either by,
through, under or against the compact
entered into between the States of
Maryland and Virginia on the 18th day
of March, 1885, or any existing law of
either of the two said States.
Approved March s, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES H. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is correct copy of an Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed jan
uary Session, 1894.
J. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.