[365] HISTORY OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY. . 



Pickled fislt inspected elsewhere not subject to reinspection. Ibid., section 42. 



Pickled fish, duly inspected in the State or country in which it is 

 packed, shall not be subject to reinspection in this State. 



Inspection of fish packed whole. Ibid., section 43. 



Small fish, which are usually packed whole with dry salt or pickle, 

 sball be put in good casks of the size and materials required in this 

 chapter for the packing of split pickled fish, and shall be packed close 

 in the cask and well salted ; the casks shall be filled full with the fish 

 and salt, and no more salt shall be put with the fish than is necessary 

 for their preservation, and the casks containing such whole fish shall be 

 branded with the denomination of the fish, and a like designation of the 

 qualities as is before prescribed in this chapter in respect to the quali- 

 ties of other pickled fish. 



Quality and size of packages for pickled fish. Ibid., sections 44, 45. 



Casks used for packing or repacking pickled fish intended for ex- 

 portation, except casks containing less than twenty -five pounds weight, 

 shall be made of sound, well-seasoned white oak, ash, red oak, spruce, 

 pine, or chestnut staves, of rift timber,* sound and well seasoned, with 

 heading of either of said kinds of wood, and when of pine such heading 

 shall be free from sap and knots, and be planed ; the barrels, half bar- 

 rels, and tierces shall be well hooped with at least three good hoops of 

 sufficient substance on each bilge, and three hoops of the like quality on 

 each chime ; the barrel-staves shall be twenty-eight inches in length, and 

 the heads shall be seventeen inches between the chimes; the barrels shall 

 contain not less than twenty-eight nor more than twenty-nine gallons 

 each ; the half barrels not less than fifteen gallons each; and the tierces 

 not less than forty-five nor more than forty-six gallons each. Each cask 

 shall be made in a workman-like manner, and branded on its side, near 

 the bung, with the name of the maker. 



The inspector-general or his deputies shall strictly examine and in- 

 spect all casks in which they may be required to pack fish ; and shall 

 reject such as are not made in a substantial manner and according to 

 the provisions of this chapter. 



Fees for inspection of pickled fish. Ibid., sections 40, 47. 



The fees for inspecting and branding, exclusive of cooperage, shall 

 be, for each tierce fourteen cents, each barrel nine cents, each half bar- 

 rel six cents, each cask of a smaller denomination three cents, and, in 

 addition to the fees aforesaid, one cent for each cask nailed as before 

 provided ; and all fees shall in the first instance be paid by the original 



*The words "of rift timber" struck out by amendmeut passed January 30, 1867. 



