[367] HISTORY OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY. 



fish inspected by bim arid bis deputies during tbe year preceding tbe 

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

 of pickled and smoked fisb, respectively, and distinguishing the quanti- 

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

 reinspected ; and tbe secretary shall, as soon as may be after receiving 

 sucb returns, cause tbe same to be published in any newspaper in Bos- 

 ton authorized to publish tbe laws of tbe commonwealth. 



Penalties for selling or transporting uninspected fish. Ibid., sections 54-5G. 



No smoked alewives 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 iu 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 tbe United States and having been there inspected, may be exported 

 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 4'iom, this State, shall be forfeited, and 

 the inspector-general or a deputy may seize and libel tbe 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 provided in 

 this chapter, be 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. 



^Vhoever 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 than as food, shall forfeit the sum often dollars for every 

 hundred pounds of sucb fisb, aud 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 sucb fisb 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 be has not duly inspected, packed, 

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

 violation or evasion of the provisions of this chapter, be shall foifeit 

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



