[367] HISTORY OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY. 457 



fish inspected by bim and his deputies during the year preceding the 

 first day of said January, designating the quantities, kinds, and qualities 

 of pickled and smoked fish, respectiyely, and distinguishing the quanti- 

 ties, kinds, and qualities of pickled fish of a first inspection from those 

 reiuspected; and the secretary shall, as soon as may be after receiving 

 such returns, cause the same to be published in any newspaper in Bos- 

 ton authorized to pubHsh the laws of the commonwealth. 



Penalties for selling or transporting uninspected fish. Ibid., sections 54-56. 



No smoked a]e\^ves or herrings shall be exported from this State, 

 unless inspected and branded as aforesaid, under a penalty of two dol- 

 lars for each box exported ; nor said alewives or herrings be taken from 

 a box, inspected and branded as aforesaid, and replaced by others of an 

 inferior quality, with intent to defraud any person in the sale of the 

 same, under a penalty of five dollars for each box so changed; provided, 

 that all smoked herrings and alewives, arriving from any other State 

 in the United States and having been there inspected, may be exiiorted 

 in a vessel from this State without being reinspected. 



Pickled or smoked fish, which has not been inspected and branded 

 according to the provisions of this chapter, put on board of a boat or 

 vessel, or into a carriage of conveyance, with the intent that the same 

 shall be sold within, or exported from, this State, shall be forfeited, and 

 the inspector-general or a deputy may seize and libel the same. 



If a master of a vessel or other person puts or receives on board of a 

 vessel, or in a carriage of conveyance, for transportation from this State, 

 pickled fish, or smoked fish, not inspected and branded as ])rovided in 

 this chapter, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars for every 

 hundred pounds of such fish, and in the same proportion for any other 

 quantity. 



Penalty for selling tainted or damaged fish for food. Ibid., section 57. 



Whoever sells within this State or exports therefrom tainted or dam- 

 aged fish, unless with the intent that the same shall be used for some 

 other purpose thau as food, shall forfeit the sum often dollars for every 

 hundred pounds of such fish, and in the same proportion for any other 

 quantity; and upon a trial in such case the burden of proof shall be 

 upon the defendant to show for what purpose such fish was so exported 



or sold. 



Penalty for illegally branding. Ibid., section 58. 



If the inspector-general, or a deputy inspector, brands a cask or pack- 

 age of fish, the contents of which he has not duly inspected, packed, 

 salted, or (toopered, or permits any other person to use his brands, in 

 violation or evasion of the provisions of this chapter, he shall forfeit 

 twenty dollars for each offense, and be liable to removal from oflSce. 



