KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [374] 



hallbarrels one hundred pounds of fisli each; and the same shall be 

 packed with thirty-five pounds of good and clean coarse salt, suitable 

 for the purpose, to each barrel; and said casks after being packed and 

 headed up with the fish and sufficient salt to preserve the same, shall 

 be filled up with a clear strong pickle, and shall be branded salmon, 

 mackerel, shad (or as the case may be); those of the best quality, caught 

 in the right season, to be most approved and free from damage, shall be 

 branded Cargo No. 1 ; those which remain after the best have been se- 

 lected, being sweet and free from taint, rust or damage, shall be branded 

 Cargo No. 2 ; and there shall be a third quality, which shall consist of 

 the thinnest and poorest of those that are sweet and wholesome, which 

 shall be branded Cargo No. 3. And the inspector shall also brand in 

 plain legible letters on the head of each and every cask, in which in- 

 spected merchantable fish or whole fish are packed or repacked, the 

 weight, and initials of his Christian name, with his surname at large, the 

 name of the town for which he is appointed, and the word "Maine" an- 

 nexed; and each cask shall be filled with fish of one and the same kind ; 

 and if any person shall intermix, take out or shift any inspected fish 

 which are packed and branded as aforesaid, or put in other fish for sale 

 or exportation contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, he or 

 they shall forfeit and pay fifteen dollars for each and every package so 

 altered : Provided, however, if any casualty shall render it necessary to 

 repack a cask of inspected ^ish, it may in all cases be done by an in- 

 spector of such fish. And if any person shall sell or export or cause to 

 be sold or exported, within or from this State, any tainted or damaged 

 fish, he shall forfeit and pay ten dollars for every hundred weight that 

 shall be thus sold or exported. 



Packing and branding of codfish, halibut, &c. 



5. Be it further enacted, That all codfish, haddock, hake, pollock, and 

 halibut, pickled, and hereafter offered for sale, shall be packed in casks 

 of the contents required by the sec*ond section of this act, each barrel 

 to contain two hundred and twenty-five pounds, and each half barrel to 

 contain one huadred and twelve and a half pounds, agreeably to the 

 rules of packing in the fourth section of this act, with sufficient salt to 

 preserve the same. And it shall be the duty of the inspectors to brand 

 with plain and legible figures, the weight of the aforesaid five kinds of 

 fish, in addition to the brands required by the fourth section of this act. 



PacMng and branding of small fish. 



6. Be it further enacted, That all small fish which are usually packed 

 whole with dry salt, shall be put in good casks of the size and mate- 

 rials mentioned in the second section of this act; said fish shall be 

 packed close in the cask, aud well salted; the casks shall be filled full 

 with the fish and salt, putting no more salt with the fish than is neces- 



