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and inspection of pickled and smoked fish," be and the same is hereby 

 repealed. 



The Massachusetts inspection laws passed in 1810, provided for the 

 appoiutment of an inspector-general of pickled and smoked fish. This 

 law applied to the province of Maine until the separation in 1820. The 

 new law then passed by Maine did not require an inspector-general, 

 but provided for the appointment of inspectors in the several fishing 

 towns of the State. This method of inspection continued until March 

 11, 18G2, when the following law was passed : 



Appointment and duties of inspector -general and deputies. 



1. The governor with advice of the council shall appoint an inspector- 

 general of fish, removable at pleasure, who shall be commissioned for a 

 period not exceediug two years, and he shall be sworn and give bond 

 with sufficient sureties in the sum of six thousand dollars to the treas- 

 urer of state for the faithful discharge of his duties before entering 

 thereon. 



2. The inspector-general shall appoint one or more deputies in every 

 town in this state where pickled fish or smoked herrings and alewives 

 are cured or packed for exportation, who shall be responsible for their 

 neglect or misconduct while acting under him, and when the office of 

 inspector-general becomes vacant, they may continue to discharge the 

 duties of the office until a successor is appointed, and they shall be ac- 

 countable to the state. 



3. Every deputy shall be sworn by the inspector-general or by a jus- 

 tice of the peace, and give bond to the inspector- general with sureties 

 to his satisfaction for the faithful performance of his duty, and the bond 

 shall be so expressed as to enure to the use of the state for the time the 

 deputy exercises his duties during a vacancy in the office of inspector- 

 general. 



4. Each deputy shall pay to the inspector-general one dollar, a# an 

 excise fee for his bond and commission, and the inspector-general may 

 receive from each of his deputies for every cask of pickled fish inspected 

 by him the following fees : For each tierce, four cents ; for each barrel, 

 one cent ; and every smaller package, one-half cent. 



5. The inspector-general shall, in the month of January annually, make 

 a return into the office of secretary of state, of all the fish inspected by 

 him and his deputies during the year preceding the first day of said 

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

 smoked fish respectively, and the secretary shall publish the same, as 

 soon after as may be, in the state paper, and the inspector-general may 

 require returns of his deputies as often as he sees fit. 



0. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



