REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES [354] 



IX.— APPENDIX— INSPECTION LAWS. 



Compiled by A. Howard Clark. . 

 52. EXISTING LAWS. 



MAINE. 



Inspectors of yielded fish to be appointed. Act February 10,1875, section 1. 



The governor, with advice of the council, shall, from time to time, as 

 occasion may require, appoint in each city, town, and plantation in this 

 State, where pickled fish are cured or packed for exportation, one or 

 more persons skilled in the quality of the same, to be inspectors offish, 

 wiio shall hold their office for a term of five years, unless sooner re- 

 moved by the governor and council. 



Bond for the performance of their duties. Ibid., section 2. 



Every such inspector, before entering upon the duties of his office, 

 shall be duly sworn, and shall give bonds with sufficient sureties to the 

 treasurer of the city, town, or plantation, for which he is appointed, to 

 the satisfaction of the mayor and aldermen of the city, the selectmen of 

 the town, and the treasurer of the plantation, in the penal sum of not 

 less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, for the 

 faithful performance of his official duties; and such municipal officers 

 shall, at least once a year, examine the bonds* giveu by said inspectors, 

 and if that of any inspector is not in their opinion sufficient, they shall 

 forthwith notify him, and if he for thirty days after s.uch notice neglects 

 to give a bond satisfactory to them, they shall give information thereof 

 to the governor, and he shall remove such inspector from office. 



Annual report of inspectors. Ibid., section 3. 



Every inspector shall, on or before the tenth day of December, an- 

 nually, make a return into the office of the secretary of state of all fish 

 by him inspected during the year preceding the first day of December, 

 designating the quantities, kinds, and qualities of pickled fish, and the 

 secretary shall publish the same immediately after in the State paper. 



Relief of persons injured by neglect of insptectors. Ibid., section 4. 



Any person injured by the neglect or misdoings of any inspector, on 

 tendering to such treasurer a reasonable indemnity against the costs, 

 shall be entitled to bring an action on such inspector's bond in the name 

 of the treasurer, for his own use, and to have a copy of the bond 

 therefor ; and if judgment shall be rendered thereon for the plaintiff, 

 execution shall issue for the sum found due to the person for whose 



