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entitled to damages for any deficiency in quality or quantity, 

 if purchased without inspection. 



Sec. 25. If any person exports or ships for exportation 

 out of this state any salted beef or pork, not inspected and 

 branded, as herein directed, every owner or shipper thereof 

 privy to such offence, shall forfeit six dollars, and the master 

 of every vessel, having on board such uninspected beef or 

 pork, two dollars, for every such cask. 



Sec. 26. Any trial justice on complaint made to him, that 

 any such beef or pork is put on board any vessel in his county 

 for exportation, may issue his warrant directed to the proper 

 oflicer, requiring him to seize and secure the same for trial ; 

 or the inspector general or his deputy may, on like informa- 

 tion, seize and secure the same for trial. 



Sec. 27. The officer, making such seizure, shall, as soon 

 as may be, file a libel or information thereupon in any court 

 proper to try the same ; and if upon trial it appears that such 

 beef or pork was thus shipped against the provisions hereof, 

 it shall be liable to forfeiture according to law ; one-half to 

 the use of the state, and the other to the use of the officer 

 seizing and prosecuting therefor. 



Sec. 28. Every deputy inspector shall make an annual 

 return to the inspector general . of the number of barrels 

 and half barrels of beef and pork inspected by him ; and the 

 inspector general in the month of January annually, shall 

 make a return, up to the first day of December, into the office 

 of the secretary of state, of the whole number of barrels and 

 half barrels inspected by him and his deputies the preceding- 

 year, under each of the respective brands used by them ; des- 

 ignating in the return the different sorts, and places where 

 inspected. 



Sec. 29. The inspector general may administer the several 

 oaths required of his deputies or of others, pertaining to the 

 business of his office. 



Sec. 30. No beef or pork shall be weighed by the owners 

 or keepers of any slaughter-houses, stores, or warehouses, 

 or by persons under their control in the transaction of their 



