452 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [362] 



Penalty for illegally handing or repacking. Ibid., sections 20, 21. 



If the inspector or any deputy shall brand any cask or box the con- 

 tents of which he has not inspected, packed, salted, coopered, and nailed 

 according to the provisions of this chapter, or shall permit any other 

 person to use his brands in violation or evasion thereof, he shall forfeit 

 twenty dollars for each cask or box so branded, and shall also be removed 

 from office. 



If any person shall intermix, take out, or shift any inspected fish, 

 packed and branded as aforesaid, or shall put in other fish for sale or 

 exportation, he shall forfeit five dollars for each cask, package, or box 

 80 altered ; and if any casualty shall render it necessary to repack a 

 cask or box of inspected fish it shall in all cases be done by an inspector. 



Penalty for selling tainted or damaged fish. Ibid., sections 22, 23. 



If any person shall sell or export, or cause to be sold or exported, 

 within or from this State, any tainted or damaged pickled fish, or smoked 

 alewives or herrings, he shall forfeit three dollars for every hundred 

 weight of such pickled fish, and one dollar for each box of such smoked 

 alewives or herrings which shall be thus sold or exported. 



Packing of shellfish. Ibid., section 23. 



All shelled clams or other shelled fish used for fish bait, hereafter 

 offered for sale, shall be put in barrels or half barrels of the description 

 required for pickled fish ; and the casks shall be filled full and salted 

 sufficiently to preserve the same ; if any person shall offer for sale any 

 shelled fish, aforesaid, not packed agreeably to this section, he shall 

 forfeit for each offense two dollars. 



Packing of fish for consumption within the State. Ibid., section 24. 



All kinds of pickled fish which are packed in tierces, barrels, or half 

 barrels, and all smoked alewives or herrings packed in boxes, for con- 

 sumption in this State, and which are not subject to be inspected and 

 branded as provided in case of exportation, shall, however, be packed 

 with only one kind of fish in each cask or box, and there shall be the 

 same weight in each cask as hereinbefore provided ; and for intermixing 

 different kinds of fish in the same cask or box, or for short weight in 

 any cask, the owner or seller shall forfeit the same sum hereinbefore 

 provided for the like offense is such fish were inspected. 



Fish packed in small kegs exempt from inspection. Ibid., section 25. 



Nothing in this chapter shall extend to fish packed in kegs of less 

 than ten gallons. 



