502 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [412] 



3. The sixty-eiglitb section of the act first above cited is hereby 

 amended by inserting after sub-section eight the following paragraphs : 



"(a) For each box of smoked herrings, two cents ; 



*'(6) For each half-box of smoked herrings, one cent; 



^'(c) For each quarter-box of smoked herrings, one-half cent." 



4. The sixty-tliird section of the act first above cited is hereby 

 amended by inserting the following paragra])h, following the second 

 paragraph of the said section : 



'• Barrels of the following dimensions may also be used for a si)ecial 

 quaUty of fish, that is to say: The sta\e shall be twenty-eight inches 

 long, the head seventeen between the chimes ; the chimes to be one and 

 a quarter inches; the head three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and 

 the bung stave shall be of haid wood. Every such barrel shall be 

 branded with the words 'sjjecia? «?';:;e."' * * * 



[44 Victoria, 1S81, chapter 5'2.] 



AN ACT to amend "The general inspection act, 1874," and the acts amending it. 



[Assented to 21st xMarch, 1881. J 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 

 House of Commons, enacts as follows : 



1. The act passed in the forty-third year of Her Majesty's reign 

 intituled " An act to amend '■ the general inspection act, 1874,' and the 

 act amending it," is hereby amended by rei)ealing the tariff" of fees to 

 be collected for the inspection of smoked herring, contained in the tliird 

 section of the said act, and substituting the following: 



(a) For each box of smoked herrings, one cent; 



(h) For each half-box of smoked herrings, one half cent; 



(c) For each quarter-box of smoked herrnigs, one-quarter cent. 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



(Revised Statutes of Xova Scotia, 1851, chapter 83.) 



On the regulation and inspection of provisions, lumhtr^fuelj and other mer- 

 chandise. ^ 



FISH. 



Appointment of inspectors. 



1. The governor in council shall appoint in every county a chief in- 

 spector of pickled fish therein, who shall be SAVorn into office and shall 

 give a bond, with two sureties, in five hundred pounds, to Her Majesty, 

 for the faithful discharge of his duty. He shall not engage nor have 

 any interest, direct or indirect, in the curing or packing or the sale of 

 pickled fish, under a penalty of one huudred pouiuls and forfeiture of 

 bis office ; and any person who shall act as ins])ector or dei)uty inspector 



