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added ; the deficiency of weight to be made up in better parts 

 of a carcass of pork. 



Sec. 14. Barrels or half barrels filled with pork heads or 

 feet shall be so branded ; and the inspector general or his 

 deputy, at the request of the owner or agent, may inspect, 

 cut, Aveigh, pack, or repack, salt, cooper or brand, pork of 

 the following description, which shall be branded mess pork ; 

 viz. : every part, except the heads, legs, shanks and lard, of 

 well fatted hogs, in good condition, weighing from two hun- 

 dred to three hundred pounds, and averaging two hundred 

 and fifty pounds. 



Sec. 15. Every barrel of pork shall be well salted with 

 seventy pounds, and every half barrel with thirty-five pounds, 

 of clean coarse salt, exclusive of a strong pickle, except as 

 provided in section twelve ; shall be branded on one of the 

 heads with the quality of the pork it contains ; and each bar- 

 rel of beef or pork for exportation shall contain two hundred 

 pounds ; and each half barrel one hundred pounds ; and the 

 casks shall be made of good, seasoned, rift white oak, white 

 ash, or maple staves and headings, free from any defect. 



Sec. 16. The beef barrels shall measure not less than six- 

 teen, nor more than sixteen and a half inches between the 

 chimes ; and be not less than twenty-eight, nor more than 

 twenty-eight and a half inches long, to be covered three- 

 fourths of the length with good oak, ash, elm, leverwood, or 

 walnut hoops, leaving one-fourth in the centre ; the heads 

 and staves to be of a proper thickness ; the hoops to be well 

 set and driven together. 



The half barrels shall contain not less than fifteen nor more 

 than fifteen and a half gallons, to be hooped like barrels. 



Sec. 17. The pork barrels shall measure seventeen inches 

 and one-quarter between the chimes, and contain not less 

 than thirty-one gallons nor more than thirty-one gallons and 

 one-half; and be hooped like beef barrels; and all the beef 

 and pork barrels and half barrels aforesaid shall be branded 

 on the bilge with the manufacturer's name. 



