REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [370] 



Penalty for fraud. Ibid., section 10. 



Every packer who shall be guilty of any fraud or neglect in packing 

 any fish contrary to this chapter, or shall braud any cask not thoroughly 

 examined according to the provisions thereof, shall forfeit fifty dollars 

 for each offense. 



Fees of packers offish. Ibid., section 11. 



• The packers of fish shall be paid for opening, assorting, inspecting, 

 weighing, pickling, packing, or repacking, heading up, nailing, and giv- 

 ing a certificate, if pickled codfish or mackerel, twenty cents for every 

 barrel, and fifteen cents for every half barrel, by the owner thereof: 

 Provided, That for all pickled codfish or mackerel which have been in- 

 spected in some one of the United States, and which shall not, in the 

 judgment of the packer, require repacking, the said owner shall pay to 

 the packer twenty cents only, for unheading, inspecting, reheading, 

 branding, nailing, and giving a certificate thereof; and for all other ex- 

 cept codfish and mackerel, the owner thereof shall pay the packer 

 twenty-five cents for every cask. 



CONNECTICUT. 



(Eevised Statutes of Connecticut, 1875.) 



Appointment and qualification of inspectors. Title 16, Chapter XV, 



section 17. 



The superior court in the several counties may appoint in each town 

 therein not exceeding fifteen inspectors and packers of fish, and shall 

 take a bond of every person so appointed, for the faithful discharge of 

 his duty, in the sum of one hundred dollars, payable to the county 

 treasurer ; and the clerk of said court shall give a certificate of his ap- 

 pointment to each inspector, who may exercise the duties of his office in 

 any town in such county. 



Packing of pickled shad. Ibid., section 18. 



All pickled shad intended for market shall be split and well cleansed 

 and pickled in strong brine, and shall remain in such brine at least 

 fifteen days before they shall be put up for market, and shall be put up 

 in barrels or half barrels, the barrels containing two hundred pounds 

 each, and the half barrels one hundred pounds each, of fish well packed, 

 with a sufficient quantity of salt, and filled with strong brine; and shad 

 so put up shall be of three denominations, to wit: Shad number one, to 

 consist wholly of shad well saved, free from rust or any defect, with the 

 head and tail cut off and the backbone taken out, each barrel to contain 

 not more than eighty shad, and each half barrel not more than forty. 

 The second denomination shall be shad number two, to consist wholly 



