REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [390] 

 Duties of inspectors. Penalties for intermixing. Ibid., section 4. 



4. From and after this act shall go into effect the inspector or his 

 deputies shall see that all kinds of split pickled fish for barreling- or re- 

 packing, intended for sale or export, except herring, haddock, pollock, 

 or codfish, have been well struck with salt or pickle in the first instance, 

 and preserved sweet, free from rust, taint, or damage; and such fish as 

 shall be found in good order, and of a good quality, shall be packed or 

 repacked in tierces containing each three hundred pounds offish, or in 

 barrels containing each two hundred pounds, or in half 1 barrels contain 

 ing each one hundred pounds, or in quarter-barrels containing each fifty 

 pounds, or in eighths of a barrel or kids, twenty-five pounds ; 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 have been packer I 

 or branded agreeably to the provisions of this act, or put in other fish for 

 sale or exportation, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the pro- 

 visions of the same, such person shall forfeit fifteen dollars for each 

 package so altered : Provided, however. That if any casualty shall render 

 it necess&ry to repack a cask of inspected fish, it shall in all cases be 

 done by an inspector of such fish. 



Packing and repacking. Ibid., section 5. 



5. All fish that shall be packed or repacked in accordance with the 

 fourth section of this act shall be so packed or repacked with good and 

 clean salt, suitable for the purpose ; and after packing said fish with 

 sufficient salt to preserve them, and heading said casks, they shall be 

 tilled up with a clear, strong pickle. 



Qualities of fish. Ibid., section G. 



6. There shall be four qualities of mackerel, three of salmon and 

 shad, and two of other kinds of pickled fish ; those mackerel of best 

 quality, for family use, not mutilated, measuring not less than thirteen 

 inches from the extremity of the head to the crotch or fork of the tail, 

 free from rust, taint, or damage, shall be branded number one ; the next 

 best quality, being not less than eleven inches, measuring as aforesaid, 

 free from rust, taint, or damage, shall be branded number two ; those 

 that remain after the above selections, that are free from rust, taint, or 

 damage, shall be branded number three large ; those of the next infe- 

 rior quality, free from taint or damage, not less than ten inches in 

 length, as aforesaid, shall be branded number three. All other mack- 

 erel, free from taint or damage, shall be branded number four. 



Salmon and shad. Ibid., section 7. 



7. Those salmon and shad which are of the best quality, for familv 

 use, free from rust, taint, or damage, shall be selected from number one 

 and number two ; the best of them selected and branded number one, 



